No future for Nobel Peace Prize-winner Machado?
What now for Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado? As Maduro was flown to New York to face...
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Chess and fireworks – it’s a Norwegian Christmas story
On the last day of 2025, I join The Globalist on Monocle Radio to talk about why Norwegians are...
Reindeer, Santa, snowmobiles – and fleeing millionaires. All in a day’s news from Norway
Why do millionaires keep fleeing Norway? And what happens if you are stuck on a train in the polar...
A dry, hot summer – catastrophic for European winemakers, a boon for British ones
Most of Europe has experienced an unusually hot and dry summer this year. For many winemakers, this has been...
Why Stoltenberg wants to ditch the Oil fund ethics committee
Norway’s vast oil fund’s investments are guided by adivce from an ethics committee, but now finance minister Jens Stoltenberg...
Could China shut down Norway at the touch of a button?
It has emerged that Oslo’s Chinese electric buses can be remotely accessed and shut down by the manufacturer. Meanwhile,...
Housing First – the solution to UK homelessness?
Could the cure to homelessness be as simple as giving homes to the homeless? Too expensive, some might say....
No Nobel for Trump and grenade-throwing Oslo kids – in the news this week
Why won’t Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize next Friday? Why are 13-year-old boys throwing grenades in central Oslo?...
The perils of prosperity: inside Norway’s struggle to spend its €1.7tn oil and gas fund
Published in Monocle, 15 September 2025 WRITER Lars Bevanger It’s not always easy being rich – just ask Norway’s...
Momentum Biennale 2025: Listen up!
How often to you stop and listen – really listen? Most of us live in a world overflowing with sound...