Ten reasons why it has all gone fucking fuck in Iceland since the pots and pan revolution. 1. There was a demand of reform in the fishing industry. It was needed because the resource was gathering in the hands of very few who in turn used their wealth to borrow intensely against it and invest [...]

Finally someone spoke out about the absurd EU debate in Iceland. In an interview with Channel 2 radio, Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson, the Social Democrats leader who signed the EEA agreement on Iceland’s behalf in Oporto in 1992 claims that there is no debate on the issue in Iceland. What is being discussed has nothing to [...]

One should not underestimate the political crisis in Iceland. Earlier this week, a Social Democrats insider Andres Jonsson pleaded to the “moderate section” of Independence Party to meet them on the issue of the EU. It is understandable that some of the Social Dems should cast their glance to the right. It is not far [...]

It is quite amazing how successful the Independence Party has been at projecting two of their own larger problems onto others. In classical psychology, projection is always seen as a defence mechanism that occurs when a person’s own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else. An example of this behavior might be blaming [...]

The Iceland Weather Report has put together most of what you need to know about the current Magma Energy debacle. But the revelation that it needed two unpaid bloggers, Lara Hanna and Teitur Atlason to uncover and expose the whole affair reminded me of a call I got last year from a representative of the government. He [...]

The current Icelandic government is fast becoming everything people did not hope for in the spring of 2009. The whole affair with Magma Energy’s investment in HS Energy is reminiscent of  the Independence Party and Centre Party at its worst. According to Icelandic law, companies outside the European Economic Area are not allowed to invest in the [...]

Are you confused as to why the Independence Party is now topping the polls with 40,3% and adding 11 new members of Althingi if the vote were today? Don’t be. Voters are illogical, as is evident by this excellent summary from an article in Time. They would even vote for the party which caused the [...]

Tomorrow is the first national referendum Icelandic citizens have been allowed to participate in by the political elite since the conception of the republic in 1944. By all measures, this should be a happy day for democracy in Iceland. But instead it is not a cause for celebration but a large milestone in the farcical [...]

The conclusion to a paper I wrote in a course in International Relations at the University of Iceland last semester. The title of the paper, Why has Iceland applied for EU membership? The time and the place of the Social Democrats Icelanders have participated in the European integration process without perhaps understanding the larger implications [...]

Where in the world is Johanna Sigurdardottir? If you’re visiting from the planet Eadrax, you could be forgiven to think that Steingrimur J. Sigfusson is the Prime Minister of Iceland. Well, although he is constantly answering for the government and appears to be in the middle of everything, especially IceSave and people’s TV screens, he [...]