Kathrine Jebsen Moore

Have we finally reached peak woke? An associate professor at a Norwegian university has embarked on a well-funded research project to expose the connection between white supremacy and... white paint.

Who needs conspiracy theorists when you’ve got school books teaching children that Covid vaccines are “95% effective”? This is now the situation in Norway.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a gay bar in Oslo, Norwegian pundits have been quick to blame anti-woke culture warriors like Jordan Peterson. Almost no one has mentioned radical Islam.

by Kathrine Jebsen Moore Dear Priti Patel, I sympathise with your idea of looking to Australia and New Zealand for inspiration. They have managed to practically eliminate the virus by shutting themselves off from the rest of the world, only allowing natives to return, and when they do, imprisoning them in 'quarantine hotels'. Britain looks set to achieve, finally, a pandemic success, rolling out the vaccine faster than any other European country. This is of course good news. For most Britons, pulling up the drawbridge is surely a logical next step as life gradually returns to normal. After all, holidays are all but illegal at the moment, so why shouldn’t those who do wish to return from abroad, or indeed venture here, be faced with an extra barrier? The number of visitors is currently around 10,000 a day and it’s hoped that the threat of an enforced quarantine in cheap hotels will get the numbers down. All arrivals are currently expected to quarantine, but with no real way of ensuring that everyone does. That means the risk of new strains of coronavirus arriving with them is still real. But have a thought for those of us with families divided between different countries. This news feels like yet another blow to our plans to being able to see our family overseas...