Editorials

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.

– How much will it take for you to keep quiet?

If I hadn’t met Andrew Bridgen in Oslo and seen the interview Flavio Pasquino did with Naomi Wolf, I might not have paid their conversation such close attention. But what he says is too earth-shattering to fit into a normal world. I know Bridgen doesn’t lie or make things up. What they’re saying is far too serious for that.

Mette-Marit was “friendly” with Epstein

Crown Princess Mette-Marit allowed herself to be dazzled by the glamour surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. She became quite chummy with a man of unimaginable wealth who moved in the highest circles. He had a direct, easy-going manner that encouraged familiarity. Mette-Marit fell for the technique he used to gain access to people and lure them in. Epstein was protected. He had “powerful friends”. You could tell.

Norway: Police whistleblower stripped of authorisation, fired

Several aspects of the case of Alexander Karlsen of the police IT department, who was stripped of his security clearance and unable to work in the department, raise questions about the legal protection of whistleblowers in the police in particular and in the state and large businesses in general. Karlsen was a workplace representative, so the union also got involved. Apparently the requirements for firing him were higher, but the Security Act came to the management’s aid. They chose to ignore stating justifications, even though Karlsen had the statutory right to know.

The Deconversion Wave

In a country shaped by decades of conflict, recovery, and identity-building, a new movement is quietly reshaping Kosovo’s social fabric. The Deçan Movement — the focus of a bold new documentary by Document News — explores an unexpected cultural shift: a mass departure from religious tradition, with more than 200,000 Kosovars leaving Islam in the […]

Inside the Kingdom of Terror: Carl Schiøtz Wibye on the Middle East Today

Today’s guest is Carl Schiøtz Wibye, a diplomat who has served in key Muslim countries such as Egypt and Iran, and who later became Norway’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. During his posting there, he travelled extensively across the Kingdom by motorbike—an experience that inspired one of his four books, The Kingdom of Terror. At this […]