Author: John Boyce
“Criminal” Immigration Officials Still At Large
by John Boyce, Jórunn Helgadóttir and Guðjon Abbes
In recent months, the treatment of refugees in Iceland and the failure of the authorities to uphold the domestic and…
BARCELONA: Great Scenery, Tragic History
by John Boyce
A Sophisticated European Metropolis A part of modern Barcelona’s allure is its multiple identities, the second city of Spain, the…
BARCELONA Picks
by John Boyce
DIETRICH: C/ DEL CONCELL DE CENT, METRO Universitat If high class drag’s your bag, Dietrich revives the lost art of…
MAKING HISTORY:
by John Boyce
Acting on an election promise to further equality, Zapatero began by breaking the European political mould by appointing 50% of…
No democracy please; we´re Americans
by John Boyce
Like My Lai, the Florida fiasco is no inexplicable exception but is part of and at the same time obscures…
Geysir: The Resurrection
by John Boyce
All the fun and frolics took place in Yellowstone National Park, renamed Jellystone for the purposes of the cartoon. Of…
Westman’s Your Man
by John Boyce
The islands, just a few miles off the south coast, are composed entirely from lava, formed when volcanoes erupted under…
PLAYING THE GREEN CARD
by John Boyce
Both the product and the puppet of seismic activity, Iceland’s resulting terrain is as unique as it is spectacular. For…
Belfast And The IRA
by John Boyce
Once upon a time about 800 years ago in a green and distant isle, a young clansman called Diarmaid was…
The Media
by John Boyce
Did you ever hear the one about the politician, the actress and the White House dog? Well, the year was…
The Name Game
by John Boyce
Þóra and Gunni were just your average carefree shopaholic Icelandic couple. Theirs was a tender love story that had now…
THE SUPERLEAGUE
by John Boyce
Sports tend to get dull, let’s make them interesting!!! In the world of sport, you constantly hear of drug abuse…
An Introduction To Local Politics: No, We Don’t Get It Either
by John Boyce
Parliamentary democracy in Europe does not come much older than in the proud republic of Iceland. In fact these sophisticated…