Tag: Iceland

  • The Nordic Paradox – part 2

    No doubt about it: There is more domestic violence (“Intimate Partner Violence” or IPV) in the Nordic countries and the UK than in, for instance, Spain, Italy and Ireland. In spite of greater gender parity! Allow me to draw your attention to an Icelandic TV series, “The Flatey Enigma”. This is to all appearances a…

  • Yippee

    I knew, of course, that this is done, and I knew, roughly, how; how some of the rich and powerful, as opposed to most of us, manage to pay little or no taxes. (Hear for instance BBC’s “file on 4”, “Dirty Money UK” of 11 October 2015). The problem is that more often than not,…