Quit your whining over the Icelandic volcano, The Islands Mountain Glacier Volcano. As Kenyan farmers lose billions in revenue, as British office workers don‘t get their fruit salad for breakfast, as Pep Guardiola and Rafa Benitez whine their ways to Milan and Madrid by bus and train this eruption can act as a serious kick [...]

The Icelandic government’s economic advisor Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, on a leave from his post as CEO of Askar Capital Investment Bank and two years after his whitewash report on the Icelandic economy with Columbia professor Mishkin, with some interesting promises to the BBC on October 4, 2008. What happened next? The Independence Party’s voters elected [...]

I am starting my second semester studying for a Master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Iceland. I am so far mostly satisfied with the quality of the courses on offer. I find the topics discussed, be it globalization, history of Icelandic foreign affairs, theories, nationalism and international institutions very interesting and I [...]

Word is that new legislative body Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is acting quickly to ban all traces of DiHydrogen Monoxide from Iceland. (Sorry could not resist )

Channel 4′s story about IceSave. “The Icelandic economy, the state being debt-less, this would not be too much for the state to swallow”. – David Oddson

Every New Years Eve in Iceland follows a pattern. Family dinner, bonfire and an almighty firework show, the most anarchic on Earth, toasting and partying. Between the bonfire and the explosions, everyone sits down to watch one hour of comedy satire of the year gone by. It is an old tradition from the days when [...]

After a weekend of bloggers, politicians and journalists trying to tell me that it is quite alright for MP’s to have a drink and then go to work because they have just had “one” and “everyone does it”, I am still not convinced. Ogmundur Jonasson should have ordered water or a Coke before heading to [...]

Don’t you just long for the good old times of 2007? Watch here at Daily Motion

A message to the USA and Fox News. Just like you Iceland has spent the last decade under the governance of an idealistic herd of nutjobs who ran our economy into the ground. Just like you we now have enough of those nutjobs appearing on TV and in newspapers trying to blame the bad situation [...]