Denmark

The Law of Jante and the Lad o Pairts

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

04/07/201521/04/2017 thomas 7 Comments

Although the SNP benefitted hugely from First Past The Post (FPTP) in May (gaining almost all the Scottish seats on

27/06/2015 thomas 3 Comments

During the second half of my studies in linguistics and computer science at Aarhus University I stayed at the on-campus

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

25/11/2014 thomas 8 Comments

According to Twitter, people are starting to look again at the rather low taxes that private schools have to pay.

14/09/201414/03/2017 thomas 23 Comments

Although I’ve written hundreds of blog posts over the past couple of years, I’ve never described my personal journey to