Iceland

Announcing our new eBook!

February 14, 2011

As some of you may recall, when I decided to stop writing this blog last October I claimed I was just about ready to launch a new eBook. For various reasons it’s taken a bit more time than I initially thought; however, it is FINALLY ready now. Huzzah! It’s called The Little Book of the [...]

Full article →

The new blogtitution

October 24, 2010

As some readers will undoubtedly know, Iceland is in the process of reviewing its constitution. A constitutional assembly will be set up next spring, chosen via direct personal election, for which anyone can run. The deadline for submitting candidacies was last week, and a whopping 525 people have decided to run, which amounts to 0.2% [...]

Full article →

And now for the sports news

October 11, 2010

So, the Icelandic national under-21 football team [men's!] beat Scotland this evening 2-1, which means Iceland is headed to the u-21 European Championships for the first time ever in the history of the republic. According to EPI there are all these young and talented footballers coming up in Iceland now because around five years ago [...]

Full article →

Össur wags the finger

September 27, 2010

So our Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson was in New York last week at the United Nations’ General Assembly, along with an Icelandic delegation. Here they are listening to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe give his address: OK, either old Robert was giving the dullest speech in the history of the UN, or the Icelandic delegation did [...]

Full article →

Eyjafjallajökull sends more love

September 26, 2010

It’s been p*ssing down with rain today and thanks to the eruption in Eyjafjalljökull earlier this year we’ve got some serious flooding going on in South Niceland. Ash and mud from the eruption has filled up the riverbeds in the area, particularly in Þórsmörk National Park, where there are currently around 120 people trapped. For [...]

Full article →

On The Future of Hope

September 2, 2010

Last night, EPI and I headed off to Háskólabíó cinema to catch the premiere of the film The Future of Hope. Remember The Future of Hope? I blogged about it around the time that they were trying to get it financed on Kickstarter — which incidentally is an awesome tool for artists, creative types and [...]

Full article →

Your favourite song to lighten your mood?

April 22, 2010

Those of you who have been reading for a while may remember that EPI belongs to a listening club, and every year that listening club throws a gala dinner to which the wives are invited. It’s a grand affair, and one of the stipulations is that everyone must choose a song – according to a [...]

Full article →

We haz: Total debts of the Icelandic Treasury

March 16, 2010

Well, clearly the Ministry of Finance was sufficiently shaken up by the visit of Mr Jurschevski to send out a press release with details of the debts of the Treasury. I don’t expect this will be of great interest to many of my readers, but no doubt it will be to some of you, so [...]

Full article →

More loans the “kiss of death” for Iceland

March 14, 2010

Well, it’s Sunday, and Sunday means Silfur Egils.* There were four guests today, all with fascinating things to say [as usual]. I won’t get into specifics of the first three, but rather talk briefly about the fourth, Alex Jurshevski, a specialist in debt management who apparently is here to speak to the Icelandic government about [...]

Full article →

How to become the least popular kid in the schoolyard

March 14, 2010

Brief addendum to my last post about the illegal car loans tied to foreign currencies. It turns out that it is not just the Icelandic banks who are behind the finance institutions issuing car loans in foreign currencies. Deutsche Bank, for instance, is the largest creditor behind Lýsing, one of the main auto financing companies [...]

Full article →

← Previous Entries