The drawback with the outdoor ice-rink at the entrance to Frederiksberg Have (park) is the ice-hockey skates for hire. They have no brakes. But the scene is beautiful in the fading light. A few days ago there was a massive march here. Drone footage on Twitter X followed its entire length. It went from theContinue reading “Letter from Denmark: Three Quarters of an Auld Alliance”
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Wha Sae Base as Be a Slave?
There was a time when we Scots could safely have styled our liberated nation on our independent Scandinavian neighbours. They had enlightened social policies, investment in infrastructure, solidarity with decolonised states. Internationally, nations of the wider Nordic Council were respected for their honesty and impartiality. And the Swedish-Finnish region was perceived as an oasis ofContinue reading “Wha Sae Base as Be a Slave?”