The board

Sissener: Støre will do anything to stay in power

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is more concerned with preserving his own position than with the direction in which Norway is developing. This weakness gives the smaller parties disproportionate influence and harms the economy, confidence, and sense of security of ordinary people.

Norwegian News Agency follows Mao’s playbook: Punish One, Educate a Hundred

Through public shaming and ridicule, politicians whom the media and the socialist left define as “far right” are isolated. The most prominent are Trump and his team, along with Israeli politicians—particularly the two ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. They are not the world’s most polished politicians, which makes the media’s task all the easier.

Norwegian Conservative leader wants Russian fuel bunkering in Kirkenes stopped

Russia is struggling with fuel supplies following repeated Ukrainian drone attacks. As a result, Russian fishing vessels are bunkering fuel in Kirkenes. Ine Eriksen Søreide wants to put a stop to it. We are living through a new Cold War.

Rubio gives a lesson in democracy: “Independence is our birthright”

“Americans defending their country must not be at the mercy of foreign judges,” explains Marco Rubio. “The International Criminal Court (ICC) will never deprive us of our independence,” says the US Secretary of State.

Commenting on the ethnic make-up of national teams is taboo

The teams that bear the least resemblance to the nations they represent are the most thin-skinned when it comes to criticism. Ahead of today’s clash between France and Spain, former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy remarked that there was not much that was French about the French national team. Both the players and the media considered the comment intolerable, prompting 19-year-old Lamine Yamal to launch a counterattack.

Britain bans Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Keir Starmer’s government plans to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Until now, the British authorities have had no legal power to proscribe state-backed organisations.

Norway’s Oil Fund surpasses $2.2 trillion – $400,000 per inhabitant

On 16 June, the Government Pension Fund Global surpassed NOK 22 trillion. That amounts to NOK 4 million for every inhabitant. When will the owners – the Norwegian people – begin demanding that dividends be paid out?

Front pages bathed in nationalism

The newspapers are outdoing each other in playing on national strings. It appeals to national feelings. That is called nationalism. There is nothing wrong with that, but it would have been unthinkable before this year’s World Cup finals. Will the football lads change Norwegians’ self-image? Will it in the future be possible to reproach football or handball teams for not having a stronger focus on multiculturalism? Something is happening.

Minorities and people with gaps in their CVs fast-tracked into police jobs

When one reads that “several people with immigrant backgrounds, reduced functional ability and gaps in their CVs have got jobs in the police”, there is one question that is not asked: Are the appointments for the sake of the minorities, or so that the police shall become better? Do they add competence to the police, or are the appointments so that the leadership shall get gold stars in the book? Most important of all: Can one trust them?

No one-term fluke: Mamdani’s slate crushes establishment dems

Zohran Mamdani has alarmed many establishment Democrats—people like Chuck Schumer, Dan Goldman, and Jerry Nadler. They were used to thinking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the most radical politician from New York. Suddenly, she looks like a centrist. The people coming up behind her are militant socialists, and if they represent the future, it will mark the end of the Democratic Party as a liberal party.