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JUNE 2026

26 JUN The Machine It Is Warm Today, and Therefore the Screen Is Full of It It is warm today, and therefore the screen is full of it. A thousand stories about the same thing, and a weather map glowing so deep red it looks like a notice from the realm of Hades, a colour scale…
25 JUN The Subversion Which Spirit Are We Arming Ourselves With? WHICH SPIRIT? I'm going to try to hit this once more. Because I keep wondering why no one will speak plainly. I have recently both seen and heard a minister at a lectern say that we must arm…
25 JUN The Threat The State Opens the Doors Because It Will Not Build the Walls A letter lands in a mailbox in England. The woman who opens it is called Fiona Goddard. She was a child when seven men abused and raped her together. In turns. Repeatedly.
25 JUN The Threat A Letter Lands in a Letterbox in England A letter lands in a letterbox in England. The woman who opens it is called Fiona Goddard. She was a child when seven men abused and raped her together. In turns. Repeatedly.
24 JUN The Machine You Cannot Buy Yourself That It Is True Imagine that you have lost two hundred billion of other people's money. Two. Hundred. Billion. And that you then, before anyone even gets around to calling you to account, yourself commission and…
23 JUN The Person Saint John's Night - When the Fire Points Beyond Itself SAINT JOHN'S NIGHT, JOHN, FIRE, LIGHT & A FACE If you're planning to celebrate Midsummer tonight, try noticing this - right around when the bonfire has burned down far enough that it no longer…
23 JUN The Subversion The State Will Bless Your Marriage Until You Ask the Wrong Priest I suppose we could force gay marriages through as a requirement. On one condition - that we simultaneously make the law enforce a requirement for Islamic / Muslim gay marriages in the mosque for…
23 JUN The Subversion A Costume That Admits It's a Costume Is Not a Lie Quite fascinating to be allowed to live in this time and witness the breakdown of traditional communication that is taking place. For there he stands. Arms out to the sides, a field of red and blue…
22 JUN The Threat No - We Do Not Go Quietly Into The Night "Europe is totally f*cked." Brilliantly framed by Peter Boghossian when Florence Bergeaud-Blackler - author of last year's "Broderismen" about the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of French society…
22 JUN The Machine Britain Keeps Changing the Actor While the Theatre Burns Scenes from Britain... and the rest of the remaining European population who still have a brain sitting somewhat in balance between their ears. Goodbye McClownFace.
21 JUN The Machine Here is a headline that looks perfectly peaceful at first Here is a headline that looks perfectly peaceful at first. Until you read it one more time. Let me unpack it. A government wants to force social platforms to give its own state media priority. That…
21 JUN The Subversion Notice What Mrs. Rowling Actually Does Notice what Mrs. Rowling actually does. She doesn't defend herself, she doesn't ask for understanding, and she doesn't present a long explanation for why she's right - she laughs, and in that…
20 JUN The Threat If Elon Musk Had Moved to Denmark Instead IF ELON MUSK HAD MOVED TO DENMARK. It's a little wild to think about. Imagine the young Elon Musk landing at Kastrup instead of America when he left South Africa as a tall teenager. The same boy, the…
19 JUN The Threat When Mercy Is Written Before the Crime PROPORTIONALITY. He winked at her as he left the courtroom. A small wink. After all that. After following three women through their own city, after following one of them all the way into a toilet and…
19 JUN The Subversion When the Accusation Weighs More Than the Child's Scream "THE RAPE GANG INQUIRY REPORT" In England this week, another report has emerged about something the country has known for years and yet turned away from. Let me say it straight out, because that was…
19 JUN The Subversion THE RAPE GANG INQUIRY REPORT - When a Society Feared the Word More Than the Wound "THE RAPE GANG INQUIRY REPORT" In England this week, another report has emerged about something the country has known for years and yet turned away from. Let me say it plainly, because that was…
18 JUN The Way What Men Have Always Done for Their Flock If you scroll down through the comments here on the page and hold them up against how they sounded a few years ago, there is something in the air that has shifted.
18 JUN The Machine The Pattern Written Clearly The pattern written clearly. Notice how easy it is to see when it's them. A murderous regime that for months has put a paid minority on the streets and called it "the people", and which now, when it…
17 JUN The Person We've been together almost twenty years, and I still can't quite hold that number We've been together almost twenty years, and I still can't quite hold that number. Even more impossible is putting words to what the meeting with exactly her set in motion in me - and how deeply it…
16 JUN The Person The Body, Spirituality and the Oldest Religious Gesture We Know THE BODY, SPIRITUALITY AND CHRISTIANITY I had hoped we could simply laugh together over the last post - but then the same thing happened that always happens. And I have - truth be told - wanted to…
14 JUN The Person One of the major media outlets wrote earlier today with large headlines that - One of the major media outlets wrote earlier today with large headlines that - "Fear has taken hold of the Danes". Something to that effect. I scrolled past quickly, because I know what their signal…
14 JUN The Subversion Multiethnic vs. Multicultural - How One Word Replaced What We Never Voted On MULTIETHNIC VS. MULTICULTURAL. You walk through a city on an ordinary afternoon, or you stand looking at a class photo from your child's school, and there are faces from all sorts of places in that…
13 JUN The Machine We Regulated a Future We Never Built Ourselves I work with artificial intelligence every single day, and not in one lane, but down through nearly everything I do. It ideates with me and against me, analyses, drafts, refines and elaborates, finds…
12 JUN The Person Evil - The Word We Forgot, The Thing That Remained EVIL. This week we saw it again. A street somewhere in Europe, in the light from the street lamps. A man sits on top of another human being, in the middle of the road, with his arm raised, and…
11 JUN The Machine The Experts Are Never Wrong, Reality Is As expected. The only thing that truly surprises me is that it took three months before we got here. I've already seen the Deadline broadcast. It hasn't been recorded yet, but I've seen it, because…
11 JUN The Person Nice Men Let Their Daughters Burn Someone wrote something about me the other day in a comment, which I've been thinking about since. He wrote something along the lines of - that I don't fall into being a coward. That I say what I…
11 JUN The Person Someone Wrote Something About Me That I've Been Thinking About Since Someone wrote something about me in a comment the other day, which I've been thinking about since. He wrote something along the lines of - that I don't become a coward. That I say what I mean. That…
10 JUN The Subversion Region Southern Denmark Is Working on a Little Book Region Southern Denmark is working on a little book. An A6-format one, so it can sit in the pocket of the lab coat and in the staff rooms, somewhere between the pen and the stethoscope. It's meant to…
10 JUN The Person What It Actually Means to Be Christian - A Map of Depth There have been many questions after the recent posts about Denmark as a Christian country - both in the comment threads and in private messages. Of course also the usual condescension, the ridicule,…
08 JUN The Subversion When the Foundation Is Called Nonsense by Those Now Tasked to Guard It A nearly eleven-year-old post surfaced again today. It was written on a summer day in 2015, on a holiday, just after a centre-right prime minister had written "Denmark is a Christian country" into…
08 JUN The Machine A Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Sits in the Metro with a Piece of Cardboard She Has Painted There's a thirteen-year-old girl sitting in the metro with a piece of cardboard she's painted with marker. She has written that she is too young to vote on her own future. You can picture it.
07 JUN The Subversion This Week the National Church Was Placed Under the Ministry of Health This week the national church was placed under the Ministry of Health. It happened quietly. No demonstrations, no grand speeches, no headlines that lasted more than an afternoon.
06 JUN The Subversion The Four Tests - Critique or Antisemitism? THE FOUR TESTS Critique or Antisemitism? … Had actually planned to post something funny and sweet this morning. But the clown show apparently continues unabated everywhere - so you get this one…
05 JUN The Person Freedom Was Never the State's to Give 177 years ago today, a king put his signature on a paper that took power from himself and his lineage and placed it with us. 🇩🇰 The unusual thing was that he gave it away freely.
05 JUN The Subversion When a Single Word Weighs More Than Five Knife Wounds Most parents know the nightmare that can run on the inside during the years when your son - or daughter - begins moving through the city at night.
04 JUN The Threat The Right to Stop Believing Is the Only Religious Freedom That Truly Costs There have been many good and interesting people over for lunch at our place this past year and a half, sharing their thoughts, experiences and observations about what is happening around us - and…
03 JUN The Threat They're Not Whining - They're Watching the Foundation Crack Someone wrote in a comment, asking if he should now listen to whining from the right wing for four years, now that the new government had been formed. I sat thinking about that while I ate dinner.…
03 JUN The Threat I Have Read Mohamed's Post Several Times Now I have read Mohamed's post several times now. Just read it. After that, I would like to ask you to read the following with both eyes. Quietly and calmly. With space around your thoughts, so you do…
02 JUN The Quickening When Everyone Gets Free Dental and Nobody Is the Others FREE!!!?? 😳🫪😮 YES MAN! This is IT! It's the others who pay. FINALLY! SO COOL! But dear Mette. I've been thinking, and why exactly stop at teeth? I'd like to apply for FREE high income transferred…
02 JUN The Machine Look at the street for a moment, before we look at the boxes Look at the street for a moment, before we look at the boxes. The buildings behind were raised by people who assumed someone would inherit it, and therefore they took care - they aligned the windows…