Tag: Utterance
Grandmother’s words – Utterance
I remember my grandmother saying: “When all of us who have experienced the war are no longer alive, you will start all over again. You have to have lived it…
Recipe for a bad recipe – Utterance
In 1991, Roald Dahl and his wife Felicity published the cookbook I Roald Dahl’s kitchen. Among other things, it contains the recipe for Roald’s oxtail soup. The soup was certainly…
We continue deeper into Sleeping Beauty – Utterance
The state budget for next year is NOK 1,883 billion. 410 of them come from the Oil Fund. Thus, more than every fifth kroner of the government’s expenses is covered…
Some of the best things written in English – Utterance
It is a landscape many will recognize, from movies and from myths. It is located in the south and west of the United States. It is sparsely inhabited, with small…
Small drops of poison – Utterance
12-year-old Linnea has got a new dress and is very satisfied. She arrives in the school yard and a classmate approaches her, smiles and says: “nice dress, but are they…
The Power of Apology – Utterance
With skis on and with a high heart rate, I was stopped by a guy in the middle of the ski slope. I experience the unthinkable. First let me take…
It’s pretty sneaky, really – Utterance
It must have been about 20 years ago already that I learned the word “shrinkflation” during my studies at NHH in Bergen. The word is made up of the two…
Give Abida Raja reparation – Utterance
The time is politically ripe. Let Abida’s book be what triggers real policy measures to protect Norway’s most vulnerable children. Abida Raja was kept in Pakistan by relatives she barely…
Beware of the Power of the Watchers – Utterance
The Police Act is clear. The state must provide the police service society needs. It is a fundamental principle that the state should have a monopoly on violence. Internally in…
Oh, Harry, Harry, Harry – Utterance
Even for those demonstrably uninterested in teenage heartthrobs, it was impossible to ignore when One Direction became the world’s biggest boy band in the 2010s. Of the five members of…