Editorials

How Jeffrey Epstein recruited Norwegian and Swedish girls for sex and prostitution

“I’m ready to get started tomorrow and send you 16-year-olds,” wrote the Algerian groomer Daniel Siad, who holds Swedish citizenship, to Jeffrey Epstein.

Prince of Darkness Shines a Light on the Murky World of Lobbying Companies

Peter Mandelson is featuring heavily in the headlines as his role in the Epstein scandal threatens to bring down Keir Starmer’s government. But the story goes much deeper: Mandelson, the disgraced former Ambassador to the US and adviser to Tony Blair and successive UK Labour prime ministers has had a finger in many unsavoury pies. […]

Archbishop: “We resist nationalism” – changes name of the Church of Sweden

In a long debate article published in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s Archbishop Martin Modéus launches a harsh attack on what he calls “Christian nationalism”, a phenomenon that he describes as “worrying” and which he believes must be counteracted. It makes me ask some presumptuous questions…

Does Norway have space for conservative thinkers like Asle Toje?

If Norway wants genuine pluralism of opinion, the mainstream press has to accommodate voices like Asle Toje’s.
Truth-telling isn’t welcome here, though. The sustained campaign against him ever since his article “Will Norway Survive What’s Coming?” makes that crystal clear. Many who privately agree with him won’t risk saying it aloud. But the critics will soon enough be caught up by the stark, provocative reality Toje is flagging up.

Why won’t Norway’s FM allow an independent inquiry into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

Neither the Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide nor the former Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide wants any independent investigation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the wake of the Epstein scandal. Could the explanation for their opposition be found in Geneva? Both have held positions in an organisation that runs private foreign services funded by Norway.

Børge Brende – probably the last Norwegian to meet Epstein alive

Børge Brende dined on sushi at Jeffrey Epstein’s home just three weeks before the latter’s arrest. The two continued texting right up until days before the arrest. This means Norway’s former foreign minister and current CEO of the World Economic Forum was likely the last Norwegian to meet Epstein while he was still alive.

How Epstein blackmailed a ship owner following Labour minister’s property heist

Epstein archives reveal a high-stakes property deal: Shipowner Morits Skaugen Jr. claims he was coerced into selling his Frogner flat well under market price, as his century-old family firm collapsed into bankruptcy amid Epstein’s efforts to extract cash from him.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? What did he get his acquaintances to do?

Was Jeffrey Epstein an information broker or a spy running a global honeytrap? Either way, compromised individuals—including Norwegians—may have breached national security laws. That must be investigated by impartial investigators with no conflicts of interest—and they cannot have any ties to the same elite network now being exposed. Those with close connections to the Labour Party are conflicted.

Minneapolis is the bastion against Trump and for the inclusive caliphate

Those who insist that fascism is returning to the West will one day find themselves in a grim Somali slum, shrouded in full-face veils, living under gender segregation, with the call to prayer echoing from old churches turned into mosques, halal slaughterhouses on every corner, and slick NGOs quietly draining taxpayers’ money.

The Crown Princess: A piquant derailment in the Epstein affair – with kompromat at the heart of the explosives

The fact that Mette-Marit has been on the sidelines and is now lying through her teeth is part of a pattern in an otherwise dysfunctional royal family, and is of course an embarrassment to the press. Far more serious is the fact that key Norwegian politicians and civil servants are in trouble: two former prime ministers, at least two former foreign ministers and a former UN ambassador who is still in operational service.