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June 2025

How to Hold the Sun: A Danish Midsummer Survival Guide
This week, I had the honour of giving the Sankt Hans bonfire speech for Danes in the UK. In need of a 10 minute caffeinated sunbeam of a pep talk? Here…
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Take Two Paracetamol and Call Me Next Week
A tale of two health systems - featuring Take a Break vs Sundhed magazine, matching blouses and emergency care
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If it’s too hard to be a parent in the Nordics, then it’s too hard to be a parent
Birth rates are dropping, even in Norway. Is 'intensive parenting' to blame?
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Can free school meals make you richer?
Denmark’s school lunch lottery, how universal school meals are making Nordics smarter, healthier, taller...even wealthier - and why we need in on the…
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May 2025

Miranda July Made Me Buy A Shed
In search of arbejdsglæde - or 'happiness at work' - via All Fours, a garden centre and a small patch of green behind the compost heap...
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Sunshine, Sadness & Spectral Queens: Big Feelings at Hampton Court Palace
There’s something surreal about discussing Danish parenting and feeling sad in the shadow of an English royal palace said to be haunted by Catherine…
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The Joy of Running Danishly
Why being picked last for team sports shouldn't slow any of us down; Viking parenting in The Happiness Lab; plus WIN tickets to the Feel Good Festival
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Morris Dancing & Mild Bewilderment: Explaining English May Day to Friends Abroad
In which I attempt to explain to a Dane and an American why English adults voluntarily jingle, hop and whack sticks for fun
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'Spermageddon': The Musical
Showtunes and Scandi Sex Ed: What Spermageddon Reveals About the Nordic Way of Living, Loving and… Learning?
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April 2025

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