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Denmark Norway 

Is Norway Scotland’s twin nation – or is it Denmark?

07/11/201807/11/2018 Tam 1 Comment

Lesley Riddoch and Phantom Power have finally released their third Nation film (after excellent ones about the Faroes and Iceland),

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EFTA EU Indyref2 Norway 

Aiming for a Norwegian solution for Scotland would be disastrous

30/01/2017 Tam 2 Comments

Some people within the SNP are apparently thinking about aiming for EFTA membership instead of being a full member of

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Brexit Norway 

Nobody wanted the Norwegian solution in Norway

21/06/2016 Tam 0 Comments

The Leave and the Remain campaigns are united in dismissing the Norwegian solution. The Brexiters want to control immigration, which

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consequencesofunion culture Denmark featured Norway 

The Law of Jante and the Lad o Pairts

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

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

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EU Norway 

A fax democracy?

04/07/2014 Tam 9 Comments

There was a rather odd article by professor Vernon Bogdanor, David Cameron’s former politics tutor at Oxford University, in The

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Denmark Norway Scandinavia Sweden Westminster 

The government Scotland voted for

09/05/201409/05/2014 Tam 7 Comments

One of the more popular indyref illustrations circulating on Twitter points out that Scotland has voted Tory for 6 years

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Norway Scots language 

The Scots language in an independent Scotland

06/09/201306/09/2013 Tam 22 Comments

I’ve met many people on either side of the independence debate who seem to regard Gaelic as one of the

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