culture

Ready or not, here we go!

24/01/201924/01/2019 thomas 2 Comments

When I moved to Scotland almost 17 years ago, I soon discovered a huge cultural difference compared to Denmark and

06/09/201806/09/2018 thomas 10 Comments

Scottish social media has for a while been full of stories about how Union Jacks are replacing Saltires on Scottish

19/10/201619/10/2016 thomas 7 Comments

The Tories’ Brexit dreams are getting wilder and weirder by the day, as shown by yesterday’s dramatic story in The

23/09/201621/05/2018 thomas 0 Comments

Often you hear independence switherers worrying endlessly about losing their favourite TV programmes, such as the Great British Bake Off,

05/01/201614/03/2017 thomas 3 Comments

A term that is often used to describe Nordic culture is the so-called Law of Jante: Generally used colloquially in

16/06/2015 thomas 7 Comments

Ever since moving to Scotland from Denmark a few months after the 2001 election (which put Anders Fogh Rasmussen into

25/02/2015 thomas 2 Comments

Peter Geoghegan has written a great wee article on his blog about the problem that election posters are getting banned