Author: Haukur Már Helgason
Minister Proposes Privatization To Finance New Hospital
Same Rationale Given For Privatization Of Síminn In 2005Healthcare Minister Kristján Þór Júlíusson has proposed that the State sell some…
Banksy In Iceland?
As In: A Polar Bear? Pushing A Shopping Cart? That Must Be …Banksy may have been to Iceland. A while…
World-Historical Monuments Recycled As Furniture
In The Name Of Peace And Freedom: Jonni & The Equator Memorial Project Jóhann Sigmarsson has been some sort of…
‘You’ve Got To Be Firm With These People’
Variations On Tough Love —Debates on Monday #3Against Container-Prejudices Eygló Harðardóttir, Welfare Minister on behalf of the Progressive party, wrote…
Hello! I Must Be Going!
The Debates on Monday #2To forge a synthesis: Last week, as evident in what follows, citizens of the volcano-plagued republic…
Student Loans Beyond The Grave
Relatives Of Man Dead For 27 Years Haunted By Student LoansVísir reports that the heirs of a man who died…
Nuke The Middle-East, Give Up On Iceland
The Debates On Monday #1Today, Monday, Professor Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, the Icelandic neoliberal experiment’s chief ideologue since the late 1970’s,…
This Is Not A Media Blackout!
The Romans Have Not Taken Over The Media! Move Along, Please!You wouldn’t call it a media blackout, I guess. Because…
A Volcano Bigger Than Timberlake
Or: How we learned to stop worrying and love the lavaThe most prominent, truly devastating volcanic eruption in Icelanders’ public…
A Volcano Bigger Than Timberlake
Or How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The LavaHistorically, Iceland has seen some volcanic eruptions at a devastating…
A Summery Summary
It’s Such A Peaceful Place Until You Speak The LanguageIn case you missed reports, while traveling or otherwise enjoying Iceland’s…
Virus In Imported Meat Might Alter Nation’s Behavior, Warns PM
Says Toxoplasma Infection ‘Might Be Changing The Behavior Of Whole Nations’According to Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, a virus that…
Poet Tattoos Demand That Minister Resigns
Bragi Páll Dedicated His Right Thigh To: ‘Hanna Birna, Resign’Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Poet Bragi Páll Sigurðarson just disclosed his…
Da Accident
Cozy Relationship with Russia Prompts Questions“The President of Iceland meets with Russian Ambassador Anton Vasiliev to prepare the Arctic Circle…
County-Party to be Founded
Gunnar Smári Egilsson Campaigns for Iceland to Unify with NorwayOnce over one percent of the Icelandic population had joined the…
Minister Promises Law Against Racial Discrimination
Iceland Only European Country Still WithoutWelfare Minister Eygló Harðardóttir has announced that, come next fall, the Ministry intends to propose…
What If Sunday is on the Phone to Monday?
The Police Chief, the Minister & the Enigmatic Beatles TweetNothing like a country that every day walks further down the…
Ask Not on Whom the Sun Shines
New Refugee-Hostile Chief of Capital Area PoliceIf the State Prosecutor decides to take the Interior Ministry to court, for breach…
Ungoo
Part X: Time to Stage a Conclusion[Continued from Ungoo: Part IX] Earlier this year, a free-trade agreement between Iceland and…
Ungoo
Part IX: The Casualties of Institutionalized Intimacy[Continued from Ungoo: Part VIII] Combined, these faults admittedly sound like the joke about…
Ungoo
Part VIII: Facebook Quarterly[Continued from Ungoo: Part VII] Which brings us back to Facebook. You may or may not know…
Ungoo
Part VII: Photographer Shoots Starling! Pictures Inside![Continued from Ungoo: Part VI] The most recent attempt to create a common venue…
Ungoo
Part VI: Cluck Around the Clock[Continued from Ungoo: Part V] Radio program Víðsjá, run by state broadcaster RÚV, is in…
Make Yourself at Home
Community Spirit at Bargain-Prices! Air-bnb has announced its future vision —and a new logo. Supposedly composed from a heart, a…
Democratic Principles —the Machiavellian B-sides
“The president will not discuss statements made in an election campaign, during his term in office.” So said the President’s…