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God Bless Iceland

Two years on: where is the New Iceland?

October 6, 2010

Two years ago, almost to the hour, then-PM Geir Haarde went on Icelandic state television and addressed the nation with the aim of enlightening us as to what was going on with the Icelandic banks. The previous weekend had seen incessant comings-and-goings of the main players in the banking sector at the government’s official meeting [...]

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Maybe I Should Have, aka Follow the Money

January 23, 2010

A couple of nights ago we went to the premiere of a new Icelandic film about the collapse called Maybe I Should Have. The title is a throwback to a remark that then-PM Geir H. Haarde made on the programme Hard Talk last year. The host asked why he had not called Gordon Brown when [...]

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