When I was a student at a university in the US, the women’s soccer coach was fired from his job for pushing a player. This despite his record of leading the team to the final four in consecutive seasons. This was eight years ago and he still hasn’t been able to find another job as [...]

Iceland is doing what would have been unthinkable only a year ago: applying to join the European Union. The prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, announced this week she would present a bill to parliament authorising the start of membership talks with Brussels. The move was widely expected, as she believes EU membership is the only way [...]

From the Independence Party convention So why did one Icelander in five think that the Independence Party was the right party to get the country out of the economic mess it is in?  Akin to giving the drunkest person at a party the keys to your car to drive you home, it may sound ridiculous. [...]

  With opinion polls showing views on European Union membership about equally divided among the 320,000 people in this remote land on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Ms. Sigurdardottir has linked her political future to gaining entry to the 27-nation union. She said Saturday at a news conference that applying for entry was an [...]

Russian style privatisation and rapid deregulation lead to exponential growth of the financial sector. In less than a decade, Iceland went from a resource-based economy, dependant on fisheries and geo-thermal energy, to a financial giant. We were all taken by surprise: where did the money come from? The answer came in October. We were living [...]

Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, former leader of the Social Democrats has acknowledged that she was involved in raising and accepting unusually large donations from businesses in 2006. She says that accepting those donations was unnatural in light of what has happened since and shouldn’t have happened. She then makes that point that in 2006 this was [...]

After accepting over 70 million ISK in the last campaign year from Landsbankinn and the controlling owners of Glitnir (FL Group) when it was considered normal to accept donations of 300.000-500.000 ISK, how on earth was the government of the Independence Party and Social Democrats supposed to rein in the banks on the way to [...]

Trustworthy?   Right now the nation is waiting on the most useless information ever from the Progressive Party. Who were their largest donors in the last few years? Even though the party will open up its books, the sensitive info will be nowhere to be seen.