The sad tale of Denmark’s buxom mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen didn’t write a fairy tale called ‘The Ugly, Pornographic Duckling’, yet his stories often feature alienation, exile…
Danes are baffled by Britain’s hatred of second-home owners
Spring has arrived on the North Coast of Zealand, and my fellow Danes are busily scrubbing down their summerhouses for…
Here’s what Greenland should do about Donald Trump
Greenland’s prime minister Múte Egede has responded to Donald Trump’s overtures to buy the island by saying it is time…
The EU can’t stop Denmark’s migrant crackdown
Nørrebro, Copenhagen’s hip, multicultural inner-city area, was crowned the world’s coolest neighbourhood by Time Out in 2021. Former residents include Denmark’s greatest…
How Ozempic fattened up Denmark’s economy
It’s official: weight-loss wonder drug Wegovy (also marketed as Ozempic) makes US celebrities shrink but makes the Danish economy grow. This…
How Queen Margrethe made the Danish monarchy popular
Danish New Year’s Eves are to be savoured partly for their predictability. First, on the main Danish State TV channel,…
Where have all of Denmark’s bank robbers gone?
Asked why he robbed banks for a living, the legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton allegedly replied, ‘because that’s where…
Is this the reason America has had such a disastrous pandemic?
If Francis Fukuyama was wrong about the end of history, he was right about one thing. Back in the scary…
‘We failed’: Denmark’s media is waking up to its flawed Covid coverage
‘We failed’. An editorial in Ekstra Bladet, Denmark’s leading tabloid, berates the Fourth Estate – including itself – for failing to…
Why isn’t Britain adopting the Danish roadmap?
Denmark’s greatest philosopher, Søren Kirkegaard, experienced only one epidemic in his lifetime, the cholera outbreak of 1853, which occurred after…
