Author: Robert Jackson
101
It’s a shop, a hotel, a bar, a book, a postcode, a mindset, a wasteland and a warzone. It’s the…
Who´s in charge of foreign affairs?
Having talked to the opposition regarding the governments position on Afghanistan, we tried to get the governments´ point of view….
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE SET THEM FREE
Is it noble to kill? Healthy, unpolluted Icelandic rivers have provided years of sport for fishermen here and overseas. It’s…
TIME FOR THE BULLET?
The film was made almost 15 years ago when farmers had no option but to leave their farms for the…
A MINISTER PLEASE
The Tourism board pointed out that they have been pleased witht the response to their poster campaigns on the Tube…
A Very Icelandic Protest
One evening last summer a banner made out of a sheet was strung between two poles and draped against the…
A Man May Dream
I asked whether the price was right and received a shrug and look that told me to move on, as…
GIVE US YOUR DIRTY MONEY AND WE´LL CLEAN IT FOR YOU
“I see the role of the company to perform pieces that are not part of the mainstream repetoire. We are…
LAXNESS TRANSLATED
Halldór Laxness writes this description of a grandmother in his book The Fish Can Sing. It is a description which…
THE GRAPES OF VAÐI
by Valur Gunnarsson and Robert Jackson
by Valur Gunnarsson In the 1930s, dust storms swept the southern plains of the United States. The “Black Blizzards,” as…
Northern Delights
A new book joins the ‘Lost in Iceland’ brigade this year, which has a refreshing take on a area of…
Here comes Esperanza
Good and evil, Walt Disney style Greenpeace are no strangers to specious science and emotive argument; the sort that lumps…
NOT ON THE TV
The other day I sat down to watch the news. We were in the middle of the presidential elections and…
ON THE RIVERBANK WITH BUBBI
The drugs and drink behind him and an early morning regime of workouts in the boxing gym have produced a…
SHOULD THE KING HAVE A CROWN?
Some background is needed. The position of president is best defined as a paradox. The role was created at the…
ICELANDERS HAD THE GUTS TO LEAD THE WAY.”
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir became the first woman to be elected a constitutional head of state when she took office in 1980,…
DRINK IS GOOD FOR YOU!
If you are a visitor reading this piece there’s not much that you would consider out of the ordinary about…
Geysir
“I’ve given all the good stuff to my believers a little closer to the biblical homelands” said the man with…
THE MEDIA CONTROLS OUR MINDS
Picture it: Out of a population of two hundred and eighty odd thousand souls, living in approximately one hundred and…
LICENSE APPROVED?
The walk to Bogi’s office is along wide corridors, covered with black and white photographs. I remark upon these images…
Keflavík, We Have A Problem
So the summer continued. I had a chance to return to home to spend some days with my boys Jake…