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....
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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...
Norway goes to the polls
Norwegians go to the polls on Sunday and Monday to decide whether to give governing Labour a shot at...
Elections, oil fund, bulldozers and the wrong kind of sand – the week in Norwegian news
Norway’s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo’s trams have...
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
In 2010, a book came out in Norway that transformed the way people looked at paperless immigrants. The author,...
Son of Norway’s Crown Princess charged with 4 accounts of rape – what now for the royal family’s reputation?
Marius Borg Høiby became an overnight celebrity age 4 when his mother, Mette-Marit got married to Norway’s Crown Prince...
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I summed up the week in news from Norway for Monocle on Sunday, and although it is the height...
The multiple challenges facing the indigenous Sami in the Arctic North
The Arctic is facing multiple challenges, from rapid climate change to militarisation and a geopolitical battle for resources. No one feels...