We’re now six months from last year’s parliamentary elections, and our government is ostensibly led by the Left-Greens. I say…

This spring, something revolutionary might happen in the realm of Icelandic trade unions. After 18 years of running Efling, one…

They say everyone in Iceland knows each other, but that’s an exaggeration. I went to visit the President, Guðni Th….

2017 somehow managed to top 2016 in terms of politics that seemed to surpass everyone’s expectations, both in positive and…

We at Grapevine pride ourselves on being on the cutting edge of analysis and the scientific method. In keeping with…

The Peoples’ Party, a new right wing populist party setting their sights on Parliament later this month, have made an…

Iceland has almost always had a right wing government. The one exception was in the wake of the 2008 financial…

For three months Kjartan Theódórsson has been living in a tent at a campground in Hafnarfjörður. A former skipper at…

Reykjavík City Hall might end up looking very different from its current form when municipal elections are held next spring….

“This populist label started with Egill Helgason, who runs a political talkshow on RÚV and is supposed to be impartial….

First-time visitors to Iceland’s capital are often struck by the city planning patchwork that Reykjavík is. Soviet-style apartment buildings, modernist…

The pessimist’s guide to Icelandic politics One can’t help but envy the two-party systems of the US and (more or…

The breaking news of the Panama Papers leak last week, and the Icelandic politicians involved, has sparked some truly inspiring…

Dear Nanna, Why are protestors throwing perfectly good Skyr at Parliament? Please let us send you some of that rubbish…