For 25 years Geir Lundestad served as permanent secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. One of his jobs was to…
Read MoreSyrian refugees “welcome in Svalbard”
A local chapter of the Norwegian Green Party on the remote Arctic island of Svalbard have suggested Syrian refugees could…
Read MoreKremlin upset as Russia invades Norway… on TV
A new TV series to be aired later in September on Norwegian TV2 has angered Russian authorities because it depicts…
Read MoreUtoya reopens four years after massacre
Norwegian youths have been returning to Utoya island for the first summer camp since the deadly attacks by right-wing terrorist…
Read MoreOslo’s Kooperativet – the radio version
Here’s a radio version of my original piece from Monocle Magazine about a group of organic food enthusiasts in Norway’s…
Read More“Evolving” robots 3D-print their own parts
Artificial intelligence. It’s long been the stuff of science fiction, but it’s inching closer to becoming science fact. Around the…
Read MoreTrigger-unhappy: Norway’s police
Recent statistics show Norwegian police fired two shots in the whole of 2014, both of which were warning shots which…
Read MoreIranian students vs Norway trial gets under way
One of the two Iranian students taking the Norwegian state to court over her expulsion from the country talks to…
Read MoreOslo’s Kooperativet: Food to the people
How do you let city-dwellers with no outdoor space access the best of organic produce straight from the farmer’s field?…
Read MoreOslo’s bee highway creates a buzz
Where are all the bees going? Global bee populations keep falling, and the latest figures from the European Environment Agency…
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