Outsized and eccentric: The farce behind the Nobel Peace Prize

The fuss about the Nobel Peace Prize has always been excessively outsized to its relevance.  Like most prizes, the panel is bound to have its treasure trove of prejudices and eccentricities in reaching any decision.  Thin resumes have swayed the Norwegian committee to acts of dottiness.  Surprising moments of dark humour have made an appearance in the award of the prize to warmongers and those antithetical to peace.  And those on the Nobel Prize peace panel would barely cause a murmur of acknowledgement outside the spine-like length of that country of only 5.6 million inhabitants.  (The current membership of five features, for instance, three politicians: Anne Enger, former leader of the country’s Centre Party; former Conservative Party education minister Kristin […]