What does it mean to be Scandinavian?
Scandinavia is often mentioned by people campaigning for Scottish independence (more frequently than Ireland, which really is a bit odd).
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Norway
Overlooking the obvious
Viking, a photo by airship on Flickr. The Economist this week has a special report about the Nordic Countries. I
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Will Scotland be richer than Norway after independence?
Scottish Thistle Coin 1602, a photo by Tropic~7 on Flickr. There was an extremely interesting blog posting on Wings over
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Independence for Shetland and Orkney?
Shetland_dsc_0946 Originally uploaded by image_less_ordinary Tavish Scott and some of his unionist friends have been having fun recently suggesting that
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Population growth in independent countries and Scotland
Two weeks ago, the Better Nation blog published an article by Jeff Breslin which contained the following passage: Perhaps the
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Britain and Scandinavia
The subject Originally uploaded by Simon Collison To what extent is Britain (or the British Isles) the same kind of
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Nordic Horizons
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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