When life gives you lemons: UK national service nothing like a Dane’s

With the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to bring back national service, here's how Danes do it - and the support Denmark gives its young people from day one

I’m writing this in a library wedged between a loud man telling someone there’s been ‘a 20 per cent rise in lemonade sales in the Nordics’ and another eating carrot batons like it’s a job (there is no obligation to be quiet in Danish libraries).

I’m writing this in a library because my husband and dog are home and loud and I thought the library would be…