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Monday, 31 March 2014
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MARGRETHE II (2) The Queen of Denmark has been on the throne since January 1972. Today she becomes the second longest serving monarch in ...
Sunday, 30 March 2014
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1814 This year will have a lot of anniversaries for Denmark, not least the psychological one of 1864 (see a later post). But today is a sp...
Saturday, 29 March 2014
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SILLY BANKS Before the financial crisis, banks lent money to all sorts of silly things. Since the financial crisis, the pendulum has swung...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
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DET ER FORDI, AT ... All languages have "filler" expressions, words that don't really mean anything, but which are used to ...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
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IDENTIFYING POLICEMEN A recent trend in Denmark has been an increase in the number of complaints against the police. Not only individual c...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
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CHILD BENEFIT (3) One of the good things about the newly reactivated debate about child benefit (and welfare benefits in general) is that...
Sunday, 23 March 2014
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SHARP EDGES If you have a lawn next to a wood (as I do), then you need to make sure that the boundary is clearly delineated. Woods are for...
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