Life begins again as Breivik goes down
There is an expression in Norwegian that has always intrigued me. It’s interjected into sentences, much the same way as Londoners use “innit” or Dubliners “you know what I mean.” […]
Tag Archives: Anders Behring Breivik
So Anders Behring Breivik is sane, according to Norwegian psychologists. Now we – and he – will get what we wanted. A trial to determine his guilt for the bomb […]
How quickly we forget
It all seems so long ago now. A week or two ago, we were filled with anger and anguish, despair and indignation at two deaths. The death of Gary Speed- […]
Ten years after, still light years apart
Apologies for the recent bout of radio silence – suffice to say that having my first book published has proved to be more work than I expected. For me, being […]
The answer? More democracy
One dead in London, 77 dead in Norway, but the answer to both is the same. More democracy. There is no excuse for what is going on in London right […]
Believe it. It happened.
The discussion about what happened in Oslo and Utoya will continue for days and months and years, but already at this point change needs to happen. When we talk about […]
A minute’s silence not enough for some
At 1200 today Scandinavia stood still. A minute’s silence was observed, to honour those that fell in Oslo and Utoeya, victims of the bombs and bullets of Anders Behring Breivik. […]
The longest night
For some, it won’t start until after the last of the funerals are over. For others, it will start when they close their eyes and try to sleep. Tonight, many […]
The beginning or the end?
Having spent most of the night reading Anders Behring Breivik’s monocultural manifesto, everything is much clearer. And much as 9/11 was a defining moment for radical Islam, this is a […]
This is not 9/11- this is Norway’s Omagh
The tweet to the right was posted 15 hours ago. I’ve never been more disappointed to be proved right. But as the story of the bomb and gun attacks in […]
