Rant of the day

THE DANISH MODEL (3)  In May the union representing family doctors took soundings from its members  about returning their public sector li...

RURAL SERVICES (2) The local post office has gone , and local post is following it. At least on Mondays. From 1 June 2014 no ordinary post...

THE CIRCUS The circus is a summer tradition in Denmark. Every year a number of companies tour round the small towns, playing to capacity h...

REVENGE Some three years ago Julia Gillard, then deputy leader of Australia's Labour Party, organised a palace coup that got rid of h...

TURKEY AND THE EU (3) I don't know if E.U. Foreign Ministers read my blog (yes, I know they should , but ...), but they have just deci...

SANKT HANS Likes most countries, Britain took heathen festivals and adapted them to the Christian religion; Christmas, for instance. Howev...

POPULATION GROWTH The U.N. has just issued its latest forecast for the world's population. Two years ago, it thought that the planet w...