2012/03/22 23:16
At the moment, the main reason why English students are not all going to university in Scotland (where university tuition is free, compared to English universities that will typically charge £27,000 for a 3-year degree) is that Scottish universities charge them up to £27,000 for their degree. This is only possible because the EU rule about not discriminating against EU...
2012/01/15 23:16
According to this article (in Danish), the Danish government is considering a radical price increase for foreign magazines.At the moment, letters and parcels from outside the EU go through customs without any interference if the value is less than 80 Danish crowns (£9). However, if the value is more than £9, it will in most cases be intercepted, and Danish...
2013/01/07 22:39
I got the wonderful Danish TV series Matador (“Monopoly”, as in the board game) on DVD for Christmas.
It follows a range of characters in the fictional town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It was made in loving detail, so apart from being great TV, it also makes for great history lessons.
Obviously, by now few people can actually remember that time well, but when it was produced (1978-82), it was still relatively recent history. It was the idea of Lise Nørgaard, who was born in 1917, so she was basically documenting Denmark as she remembered it from she was 12 until she turned 30.
It would be a bit like if person born in 1953 came up with an idea for a TV series set between 1965 and 1983, to be produced between 2014 and 2018. If it was done really well, it’s likely people would still enjoy it in 2048.
I think it’d be equally compelling whether it was set in Denmark, in Scotland or somewhere else.
2012/03/14 23:55
The other graph (on the left) adds Sweden and England, but instead of using absolute numbers, the graphs are relative to the populations in 1900.The second graph clearly shows a difference between non-independent Scotland and pre-independence Ireland on one hand, and the independent countries (or the dominant part of the union, in the case of England) on the other.If Scotland had experienced the same relative population growth as Denmark since the year 1900, the population in 2010 would have been...
2012/03/13 23:12
To what extent is Britain (or the British Isles) the same kind of construct as Scandinavia (or the Nordic countries)?Both Britain and Scandinavia have a long and complex history, with periods of political unification and others with separate kingdoms and plenty of wars.Scandinavia's united period was a long time ago (1397–1523), while Britain only started falling apart when Ireland became...
2011/12/28 12:05
Man har hidtil kunnet forny sit danske pas på ambassader og konsulater i udlandet. For eksempel fornyede jeg før jul mit pas og fik første danske pas til Anna og Amaia på konsulatet i Bishopbriggs nord for Glasgow.Desværre ser det...
2011/12/10 23:18
The newspapers have recently been full of stories about how an independent Scotland will try to move closer to Scandinavia.I think it started with this article in The Independent, which was their mostly commented article for days.Then a journalist called...
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