Author: Haukur Már Helgason
Iceland: The World’s 4th Most Expensive Country
According to data derived from Numbeo.com, Iceland is the world’s 4th most expensive country to live. This is revealed in…
PIN Numbers Challenging For Drinkers —Bar Chaos Warning
Until last Monday, consumers could, in many cases, use their debit cards in stores and other venues without entering a…
Tue: PEGIDA Supporter Appointed To Human Rights Council —Wed: Withdrawn
Update: Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð IntervenedOn Tuesday, the Progressive Party appointed PEGIDA supporter Gústaf Níelsson as vice-member of the Reykjavík…
Iceland’s Top One Percent Owns Quarter Of Total Wealth
The richest one percent of Iceland’s population own almost a quarter of the country’s wealth, or 23 percent. The richest…
Opposition Proposes A State Ethics Council
On Tuesday, Alþingi members from all opposition parties proposed a motion to establish of an independent State Ethics Council, to…
UN Barbershop Conference A Success, Says Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson has returned from last week’s UN Barbershop Conference, held in New York. Interviewed by Bylgjan,…
For The Record
Debates on Monday #19The Holocaust remains incomprehensible in its totality. The goose steps taken towards it, while horrendous on their…
Satellite Image Of Snow-Repellent Lava Field
—It’s proper nouns-repellent, tooThe whole country is currently covered in ice and snow, as seen on this satellite image from…
Icelandic Muslims Experience Growing Prejudice
Receive hate messages and verbal abuse on a daily basis, according to Nadia TamimiIcelandic Muslims have experienced stronger prejudices against…
PM Rejects Notion Of Ideological Void
On Saturday, Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson rejected the notion that his government exists in an “ideological void”, and pointed…
Three Priests Oppose Current Anti-Blasphemy Law
Media pundit Egill Helgason notes that three priests have stated their support for Pirate Member of Alþingi Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson’s…
Media Blackout Seems Largely Successful
No proactive, investigative reporting seems to currently take place in any Icelandic media. There’s a lot of handball, some success…
Cannabis Arrests In Suðurnes
Police in Suðurnes, a municipality encompassing Keflavík airport, as well as the towns Keflavík, Njarðvík and more, busied themselves over…
Banks Did Not Fall In 2008, They Were Pushed, Says Professor
Professor Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson claims that the reason all three major Icelandic banks, Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupþing, collapsed in October…
Dagur Kári’s 4th Feature Premieres In Berlin
Dagur Kári’s film, Virgin Mountain (Icelandic: Fúsi) has been selected for a “special gala” world premiere at the Berlinale film…
DeCode’s CEO Denounces Taxation Serving The Rich
Kári Stefánsson, founding CEO of DeCode Genetics has stated his opposition to the currently unequal taxation of wages and capital…
Ásmundur Willing To Have “A Meeting With Muslims”
Member of Alþingi who proposed an investigation of Icelandic muslims, interviewedÁsmundur Friðriksson, the member of Alþingi who last Saturday proposed,…
Minister Not Yet Authorised To Relocate Fiskistofa
Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Sigurður Ingi Jóhansson, does not have a clear legal authorisation to relocate institutes within the…
Fox Hunter Finds Mysterious Trail In Snow
An animal seems to have left an unusual trail in the snow by Hólmavík, RÚV reports. Þorvaldur Garðar Helgason, identified…
In Retrospect, Someone Should Have Gone To Paris, Says PM
The Prime Ministry has issued a statement in response to media coverage of Sunday’s solidarity march in Paris, at which…
Independence Party Against Islamophobic “Idiocy”
On Tuesday, multiple prominent members of the Independency Party (IP) distanced themselves from their fellow-party member and member of Alþingi…
Prime Minister Charlie The Coherent
Debates on Monday #18 “It is incorrect that I declined an invitation from the President of France to partake in…
Prime Minister Unable To Attend Paris March
Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson did not accept his French colleague François Hollande’s invitation to partake in Sunday’s solidarity march…
One More Top Journalist Leaves DV
Investigative journalist Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson has resigned from DV, according to Kjarninn. The report came late Sunday. As of yet,…
Fuel Prices Drop Less In Iceland Than Globally
On Thursday, sociology professor Stefán Ólafsson noted on his blog that while oil prices have dropped by 50% on global…