The Progressive Party is currently the laughing stock in Icelandic politics, a title for which there is hard competition. Then again, a bunch of clowns is bound to tickle the funny bone once in a while. Party chairman Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and MP Hoskuldur Thorhallsson rode like knights in shining armour into an audience with [...]

When I published this, I got an interesting comment from an MP from the Progressive Party. Eyglo Hardardottir accused me of judging her party harshly, by saying that “after the shenanigans of the last two decades the Progressive Party has put itself in such a position that their ideas are automatically distrusted. That is why [...]

When he was voted in a highly organised coop, the chairman of the Progressive party, he no longer spoke on behalf of the group. He was still seen with them and plays a very important part there. Or should we say that the group plays an important part in his politics.  The Indefence group not [...]

Writing of debts according to the Zingales Plan The households of Iceland are still awaiting solutions for the problems they are facing in the wake of the economic disaster. The government of people in the fifties has still not offered better solutions to young people than to make the final payments of their price-indexed home [...]