This commentary (I won’t call it a review) requires this preliminary disclaimer: I have a business connection with the Norwegian…
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign nations, but not for…
Last Saturday evening, thanks to a spontaneous bout of channel surfing, I found myself watching, on NRK, Norway’s public-broadcasting network,…
Every year, the Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, or PST) issues a National Threat Assessment report. Its objective is…
I’m no monarchist, but I have to admit that I was moved the other day by the British people’s massive…
The news came without warning on April 13. A work by the 71-year-old artist Ingri Egeberg, reported Sunnhordland, a newspaper…
According to the United Nations’ 2022 World Happiness Report, Finland tops the list of happiest countries for the fifth —…
The year was 1999. My Norwegian partner and I were living in Amsterdam. One morning I saw in the newspaper…
On Tuesday, a small caravan of military vehicles drove past my window, on their way to the center of town…
