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Norwegian 400 metres world record holder Warholm reacts after winning a race - photo: Reuters/Phil Noble
Phil Noble’s iconic angst-ridden image of ex-prince Andrew isn’t his first that echoes ‘The Scream’ (below: Norwegian 400 metres hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm - in a happier mood - after winning a race) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @reuters
“The dose makes the poison,” said 16th century Swiss physician Paracelsus. Let’s hope U.S. courts remember that proverb ignored by Trump in this assault on climate action. Anything’s dangerous in high doses - and we’re overdosing on CO2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... @lisafriedman.bsky.social
The girlfriend of the Olympic medal winner who confessed to cheating on her doesn't sound impressed. "It's hard to forgive," the unnamed woman told Norwegian tabloid VG. "Even after a declaration of love in front of the whole world". @philoconnor.bsky.social
www.vg.no/sport/i/Gx3r...
I just published "Trump is obsessed by the Nobel Prize: can’t he learn how it works?" medium.com/p/trump-is-o...
Machado gives Trump a shiny medal - but apparently keeps the $1.1 million that comes with a Nobel Prize that the president won’t ever win www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...
Leave Greenland alone! Fewer than one in five Americans support Trump's drive to get the island (...and a similar number haven't even heard of Trump's plans) @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump steps up attack on science: quits 1992 UNFCCC climate treaty championed by Republican President Bush www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...
“Must try harder” - my report card on 10 years after the Paris climate agreement medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
A barometer of climate change? Most @nobelprize.org winners have to wrap up in thick winter coats on Dec. 10 when they wave from an Oslo hotel balcony - today the daughter of peace laureate Maria Corina Machado was sleeveless in unusual mild weather www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Trump, gasoline-burning cars, climate change, and a little-known 1989 lawsuit (my story) medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
I tracked down this spruce near Oslo, which will be felled on Friday and sent to London's Trafalgar Square as a Christmas gift. Its predecessors are icons of Xmas but often met with threadbare jokes medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
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Global oil demand might keep rising until 2050, even when nations have promised a transition from fossil fuels, says @iea.org. But its scenario makes weirdly pessimistic assumptions about falling costs of electric cars, other green tech, and risks of a warming planet
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Thanks Alex!
Thrilled to be among the authors of a new report about climate change and litigation: "Let the courts decide?" It's timely with COP30 in Brazil and backsliding by governments and others on climate pledges
www.idea.int/publications... thanks to @internationalidea.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social
“Keep working for peace and, who knows, you might win in 2026” — the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s likely strategy to appease Trump when he (spoiler alert) fails to win the prestigious Peace Prize on Friday. My story: medium.com/@alisterdoyl... @nobelprize.bsky.social @nupinytt.bsky.social
Many thanks Lizzie! Yes wonder what he’ll do since he’s said he’ll be insulted if he doesn’t win .. Higher tariffs on Norway? Denounce the Nobel committee as a bunch of loser socialists? Stop all peace talks? Depressing!
U.S. President Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize he apparently craves this Friday - my article examining why one leading Norwegian historian puts his chances at "zero" news-decoder.com/promoting-pe... @newsdecoder.bsky.social @ninagraeger.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social
The only con job here is by Trump. The UN’s IPCC climate panel - whose finding are okayed by fossil fuel producers including Saudi Arabia, US, Russia, etc - says human-caused warming is «unequivocal». That’s more than «most scientists» www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Terrible: @nytimes writes admiring story about hi-tech oil drilling off #Norway without even mentioning climate change and how Oslo is failing to cut emissions as promised under the Paris Agreement www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
Yes but sadly not much money to be made from palindromes!
"I am AI" - I asked #chatbots to suggest palindromes (like "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" that read the same backwards as forwards). Despite their confidence, they failed dismally. One bizarre suggestion: "Ledatic, enot erif evil neman s'oreh a" medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Voters queue in central Oslo for early voting in a parliamentary election
Norway’s parliamentary elections aren’t until Sept 7-8 but you can vote early: pick a day in the sunshine like today and join a short queue in central Oslo (other nations please do the same if not already!)
Yes - virtually anyone who gets the prize will infuriate Trump (… or could also steal Clinton’s or Gore’s!)
Yes I also cancelled my subscription at the same time! I miss the democracy dies in darkness tagline
Thanks Lizzie! Much appreciated- the Washington Post did a story recently too looking at Norwegian scepticism towards Trump (can I place a bet on him not winning?)!
Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the prize - to be awarded in October by a five-member committee appointed by Norway's parliament. He'll almost certainly be disappointed: medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks to reporters in Oslo, Aug 28, 2025
"No one has contacted me," Norwegian Foreign Minister @espenbartheide.bsky.social tells Foreign Press Association in Oslo on Aug. 28 -asked if U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is lobbying for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Meta AI chatbot exceeds even the dystopia of a «Black Mirror» episode: brilliant unsettling article: www.reuters.com/technology/m...