An exit poll from the state election in Saxony-Anhalt suggests that the AfD has become by far the largest party, with 44 per cent of the vote. That may be enough to win an outright majority in the state parliament, but only the vote count will show. In any event, the election is a triumph for Ulrich Siegmund and the party.

Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey tones down the brutality of antiquity, particularly the satisfaction of revenge. Odysseus is given a conscience that was alien to Homer’s time. The spiritual revolution came only with Christianity. Jesus gave the world a new direction. Modern people no longer recognise our moral inheritance as Christian, and may therefore lose it.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is ‘in practice declaring war’ on Russia over the drone attack on Leipzig Airport in early March. Lavrov categorically denies that Russia was behind the attack.

A right-wing group calling itself Det Danske Folk marched through Østerbro in Copenhagen on Saturday. They were far more numerous than before. Such demonstrations have usually been met by counter-demonstrators…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Antifa will be designated as terrorist organisations. In addition, 90 foreign organisations will be designated as terrorist organisations…

Italian archaeologists have uncovered remains of an ancient landscape beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem that correspond with New Testament descriptions of the place where Jesus was…

The taxi industry has been hit by fraud before, as we remember from the taxi scandal in Oslo many years ago. Now a network of companies is being linked to…

A senior Iranian source told Reuters that Iran has only about two months’ worth of petrol left in its stockpiles. At that point, its ability to wage war will disappear.…

A dolphin calf approached the shore at El Trampolín beach in Ceuta on Wednesday. Minutes later, it lay dead at the water’s edge with blood beneath one eye.

They are young, but already tired. They sleep poorly, lack energy, struggle to concentrate and experience anxiety, stress and low mood. The problem lies not primarily with young people themselves,…

When foreigners arrive in a multicultural country, they are already integrated, because the national culture is gone. But even dissolved societies need something around which to unite. So instead, people…

On Saturday, hundreds of masked and black-clad demonstrators caused disruption in Dover, where the port is the point of arrival for the vast majority of illegal migrants reaching British soil…

Is North Africa exporting criminals instead of imprisoning them? In Switzerland, 80.5 per cent of asylum seekers from North African countries have been charged with one or more offences during…

Migration is driven by poverty, we are constantly told. The Pope repeats it all the time. But it is not true. Morocco is among Africa’s most prosperous countries, yet migration…

A 42-year-old man with a Middle Eastern background is charged with striking a boy born in 2019 in the face inside a municipal nursery in Oslo’s East End. Two months…

It has been a recurring theme in these columns that politics is subject to the iron law of oligarchy. Those with power accumulate it and hold all the cards. The…

Bangladeshi Muslims are threatening strikes and street protests after Venice’s mayor halted the construction of a large mosque and Islamic cultural centre costing €20 million in Mestre on the mainland.

It is of course legitimate to commemorate a popular king. It is quite another matter when the state broadcaster and the media machine use the funeral to obsessively push the…

Russia claims that Norway has placed Russians on Svalbard under blockade. It is a serious accusation. Will the Russians do anything to break it? Meanwhile, the Norwegian authorities insist that…

CDU’s firewall against the AfD is completely crazy, says CDU politician Martina Schweinsburg, who sits in the Thuringian state parliament, just before the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the AfD…

The United States has designated the British group Palestine Action as a global terrorist organisation. The group is thereby placed in the same category as Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State,…

More and more European countries are trying to do something about an asylum policy that appears to be out of control. Denmark is now working with four other EU countries…

American socialists have markedly fewer children on average than conservatives. They struggle with parenthood, mental health and fears of passing on their bad genes.

In the past few days alone, illegal migrants in Ceuta have surrounded a military vehicle and pelted it with stones until four soldiers had to flee on foot. Some of…

Norwegian sport has received NOK 30 million this year to get more immigrants involved in sport. The activities are to be more or less free for those concerned. The funds…

State broadcaster NRK repeats the canard that Israel and Russia deliberately spread rumours that led to the storming of Ceuta, long after the story was debunked, including by a Spanish…

Decades of struggle for women’s rights and equality are thrown out of the window to please the most misogynistic group of men in the world. Men who follow a doctrine…

Austria’s Chancellor Christian Stocker recently called for a ban on political Islam to be enshrined in the country’s constitution. But his coalition partners are sceptical, and the Freedom Party believes…

The Ukrainian security services HUR and SBU opened fire on each other in Kyiv on Wednesday, leaving three agents wounded. The shooting was caused by rivalry. The domestic security service…

Norway’s ambassador in Moscow has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry to answer for the seizure of the Russian cruise ship in Barentsburg. Russia is demanding an explanation and…

The Dutch insurance company Univé has decided that it will no longer insure a number of Chinese car brands. The decision is not based on quality or technical issues, but…

Norwegian People’s Aid believes it is more important to work on abortion, gender ideology and diversity than to accept NOK 400 million in annual funding from the United States.

I took a look at the comments on Document’s Facebook page from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning. See them all together in one place. The result is interesting.

European households have €10 trillion in the bank, which Europe must now put to work for its companies through a Savings and Investments Union, says European Commission President Ursula von…

Russia is protesting vehemently against the Norwegian authorities’ seizure of a Russian cruise ship at the request of a Ukrainian company. The Ukrainians want compensation for assets they lost when…

It is not men who have been radicalised, but women. As a group, though not all of them, they have moved far to the left. That is why conservative positions…

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in cities across Spain on Wednesday evening in protest against the government’s handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta and in solidarity with people…

Just days after Pedro Sánchez absolved Morocco of responsibility for the invasion of Ceuta, the country’s own police have pulled the rug from under him with a report that delivers…

The Labour government has given LO and three other trade unions permission to select trade union representatives from among the world’s refugees for resettlement in Norway.