Opinion

Can the King’s Oath be more than empty words?

King Haakon will soon swear allegiance to the Constitution. How much remains of it when Article 1 of the Constitution, which defines Norway as independent, has been reduced to an empty shell?

He who weeps last, weeps bitterest

It may be hard to have been ostracised and persecuted for telling the truth, but it is far preferable to the fate awaiting liars and traitors on their deathbeds, when they must contemplate how posterity will remember them. We get a sense of this from listening to former senior politicians such as Bertel Haarder and Poul Schlüter.

Immigrants in Norway offered free firearms training

Opdal Jæger- & Fiskarlag offers immigrants free instruction in shooting and fishing. When the announcement on Facebook prompted comments that the scheme discriminates against Norwegians, the association simply closed the comments section, accompanied by accusations of racism and claims that it was contributing to integration.

Does Danish have a future?

‘Danish is a difficult language,’ a German tourist told me outside the bakery. I had to agree, adding that many Danes do not speak it either. Spoken Danish is diverging from the written language at a galloping pace – to such an extent that one cannot learn Danish simply by reading texts.

Sweden confronts antisemitism, while Norway shies away

On Sunday, 13 September 2026, Sweden will hold its parliamentary election. During the party leaders’ debate on 17 August, antisemitism on the left became a central issue – a debate that has so far been conspicuous by its absence in Norway. Perhaps this is because a similar discussion at home would force uncomfortable questions to be confronted.

Academic who exposed Jason Arday’s plagiarism is suspended – by a trans rector who has herself plagiarised

Postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University, who exposed the deceased Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, is being suspended from his post, announces rector Petra De Sutter, who herself has been caught plagiarising. The case has now become an academic farce.

Kremlin sacks top economist who drew parallels with the 1917 revolution

Andrei Klepach, chief economist at the Russian state-owned bank VEB, reportedly lost his job after comparing the current situation with conditions immediately before the 1917 Revolution, which toppled the Tsar and ultimately led to the creation of the communist Soviet Union.

Ten reasons why we have not got rid of hostile foreigners

There are a good many of us who have had enough of foreigners who are hostile towards Denmark. Our patience is used up. Finished. End of story! We simply do not want them here in the country. But we lack language and institutions that can handle enemies of Danish culture who do not acknowledge the rules of the game.

Weak argumentation from the defence counsel in the Løten school fire case

Mette Yvonne Larsen did not want Document present in court in the Løten case, partly from fear that we would publish the names of the accused. But such a thing would not require physical presence. The names are known to the media in any event, Document included, yet it would never occur to us to release them. Larsen insinuates that we do not respect Norwegian law.

Post-liberal poetry

Man cannot comprehend or find his way in his own time without a framework that extends beyond it. T.S. Eliot sought to inscribe the bewilderment of modernity in myth and tradition. He wished to overcome the dissolution by subjecting it to a greater order, and used the means of modernity to turn against its own image of man.