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 Lesley Riddoch wrote this article in The Guardian, saying many of the same things but also drawing attention to her think tank and Facebook group, Nordic Horizons.
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On a normal map it’s difficult to see how far north Scotland is compared to Scandinavia. To illustrate it better,
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There’s only about 60 km between Scotland’s two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh (counting from city boundary to city boundary along
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Téléphone Originally uploaded by zigazou76 Once Scotland becomes independent, it would be natural to get its own international dialling code
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I’ve blogged before about the fact that Scotland on its own has a very normal-sized population within an northern European
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Crazy Timezones Originally uploaded by tm-tm The UK government’s recent idea to move the UK from GMT/BST to CET/CEST and
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Hytte med utstikt til Skiptvet Originally uploaded by Visit Oslofjord There’s an interesting article in The Herald describing how a
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