Author: Egill Helgason
Terrified Politicians
Icelanders are heading into their second elections since the economic collapse of October 2008. In April of last year, we…
Exporting Our Disasters
The twofold catastrophes of financial collapse and volcanic eruption: When I was young, Iceland didn’t make world news a lot….
Tourist Eruption Takes Heat Off Government
Through the foreign media we learned that there was an emergency in Iceland. True, the main airports were closed, the…
Davíð Oddsson On The Warpath
In the summer of 2000 I met then leader of the British Conservative Party William Hague. The party was doing…
Iceland And Its Founding Myths: Isolation or openness
The founding myth of Iceland goes something like this: A bunch of hardy people from the West coast of Norway…
Cleaning Up The Mess
Noted political and social commentator Egill Helgason has hosted Iceland’s main political debate Show, Silfur Egils (now showing on RÚV,…