The Norwegian government-appointed foundation NOREF Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution secretly met with Hamas in Gaza in 2021 with the aim of improving relations between the terrorist organisation and the EU, leaked Hamas documents show. Marte Heian-Engdal and Frida Nome represented NOREF at the meeting.

Arendalsuka, Norway’s annual festival of politics and political correctness, is over for 2026. As the power elite packs up, the private sector is left deeply uneasy. Labour appears increasingly panicked, with the left seeking to suppress criticism. Its growing aggression betrays weakness. Government policy increasingly resembles a bad supermarket advert: working flat out for the customers. Indeed.

Jews in Europe are increasingly subjected to verbal and physical attacks – often, but not always, by Islamists. A man recently threatened to kill a Jewish couple in a French supermarket. The threat was based on accusations of genocide in Gaza. The man was sorry that ‘Hitler did not finish the job’. The development is ominous.

The conservative Spanish party VOX is demanding that Morocco lose its role as co-host of the 2030 FIFA World Cup after tens of thousands forced their way across the border…

German police turn out in force when Arab clan members are admitted to hospital after shootings or stabbings in Berlin, leaving emergency departments unable to admit new patients for several…

Karl Marx would undoubtedly have supported the American Democrats’ campaign for unrestricted immigration and the classification of the rich, homeowners, white people, men, the right, heterosexuals, opponents of abortion, gender…

Melissa Casias (53) worked at the important and sensitive Los Alamos National Laboratory. On 26 June 2025, she left her home in New Mexico without her phone, keys or ID.…

As soon as human beings are given the power to define human worth, absolute human worth is abolished. For when it depends on human beings themselves, it is not anchored…

Investigative journalist Paul Sperry has revealed that Patricia, the wife of former FBI Director James Comey, sent him a screenshot of what Google said about the number combination 86 47,…

A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush is preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from gaining access to 15 million driving-licence records, many of which are suspected of…

Since 2005, each year we have spoken 338 fewer words per day than the year before. The result is that small talk and informal conversations are disappearing, something researchers link…

The transgender-woman couple Sophie Molly and Heather Herbert have long characterised the transgender-activist milieu in Scotland and obtained financing from naïve donors. But their fantastic fraud is beginning to unravel.…

Kjell Inge Røkke is donating no less than NOK 250 million to Bakketun Folk High School. It is not every day that a Christian school receives donations, and certainly not…

Dagen editor Vebjørn Selbekk, a central figure in Norway’s 2006 Muhammad cartoons controversy, criticises politician Gaute Skjervø’s call to expel Document from the Norwegian Editors’ Association. Selbekk argues that politicians…

Ten days before Maren Sømme was killed, she was admitted to Stavanger University Hospital. Nawid Bayan was charged with violence on that occasion as well. After initially reporting violence, Maren…

Jason Arday, the Cambridge University professor who became embroiled in controversy over plagiarism, has been found dead at his home in London. By all appearances, it was suicide, according to…

The Norwegian Media Authority has expressed concern about people who find themselves outside a ‘common public sphere’, and links disengagement from editor-controlled media to polarisation, security and a possible risk…

Juliana Baffoe was appointed Norway’s new ambassador to Estonia on Tuesday, 11 August. ‘We are pleased to announce that the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway,…

Attorney General Todd Blanche describes the Southern Poverty Law Center’s methods as creating the very extremism it claims to be fighting, by paying sources to stir up racial hatred. Heidi…

An 83-year-old Canadian woman died on 10 July following a lethal injection under Canada’s MAiD programme. Her family claims that she had rejected euthanasia because it conflicted with her Christian…

An opinion poll shows that 14 per cent of Germans, equivalent to 8.2 million people, plan to emigrate within five years. The backdrop is immigration, political dissatisfaction and debate over…

The new requirement for mandatory energy audits from 1 October is the direct national implementation of the EU’s revised Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), a core component of the ‘Fit for…

Jonas Gahr Støre revealed during the party leaders’ debate in Arendal that the Norgespris rate is not guaranteed to remain at 40 øre. The scheme will remain until 2029, but…

Islam Net presents itself as a champion of peaceful Islam and the prevention of radicalisation. History tells a different story. The organisation has repeatedly served as the first step on…

When the Spanish government describes the remaining migrants in Ceuta as “only” 7,000 unaccompanied minors, it omits crucial factors: family reunification and the pull factor. What is presented as a…

The entire spectacle at Arendal, Norway’s PC conference – the self-congratulatory platitudes, the endless panels on ‘diverse communities’, ‘green transition’, ‘inclusive working life’, ‘sustainable growth’ and ‘vibrant democracy’ – is…

Abyrint has generated NOK 289 million from Norwegian aid to Somalia since 2013, paying its two owners NOK 59 million in dividends. The company missed the 31 July deadline for…

Around 115,000 people in Norway now need food assistance, according to Matsentralen Norge. The trend is linked to rising food prices. According to Statistics Norway (SSB), food prices in the…

Today, the EU’s new packaging rules enter into force. A Swedish small-business owner who sells goods to customers in several EU countries may need to register, report and pay fees…

The United States’ shifting and indecisive policy towards Iran may be perceived as a sign of weakness, not only by the Iranian regime, but also by other authoritarian states. When…

Europol warns of increasing terrorism by left-wing extremists and anarchists, and of a growing use of violence. Figures from the law-enforcement agency show that there have been eight times as…

Irish health authorities confirm full equality for ‘men’ who become pregnant or give birth; they are entitled to the same maternity leave as other pregnant employees.

The diary has reached the Ukrainian highlands, which at times offer glimpses of Nordic latitudes, but history reminds us that Ukraine has had a worse past – and Norway may…

UDI has uncovered four large family networks that have systematically obtained residence permits and Norwegian citizenship on false grounds. The first network came to the country around the year 2000.

A detour from the rain of bombs over Kyiv brings the diary to the time capsule of a village at Chernelyts’ka, south-east of Ivano-Frankivsk, near the Romanian border.

After the Left Party was forced to withdraw its entire municipal election list in Sävsjö, a new one has now been presented. Seven of the eight candidates have Arabic names,…

A recurring feature in the accounts of Nawid Bayan’s relationships with Norwegian women is the use of violence. Normally, this should lead to the recognition of a pattern and to…

The woman beside me on the bus in Iceland was unaware of her own madness. She was willing to sacrifice a wonderful holiday in Florida simply because Trump was still…

By removing “unnecessary bureaucracy”, the government is in reality removing the democratic emergency brakes that local communities, agriculture, environmental protection and reindeer husbandry have had to defend Norwegian nature against…