James Lewisohn

How Ozempic fattened up Denmark’s economy

16 March 2024 3:08 am

It’s official: weight-loss wonder drug Wegovy (also marketed as Ozempic) makes US celebrities shrink but makes the Danish economy grow. This…

How Queen Margrethe made the Danish monarchy popular

2 January 2024 5:41 am

Danish New Year’s Eves are to be savoured partly for their predictability. First, on the main Danish State TV channel,…

Where have all of Denmark’s bank robbers gone?

6 January 2023 5:00 pm

Asked why he robbed banks for a living, the legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton allegedly replied, ‘because that’s where…

Is this the reason America has had such a disastrous pandemic?

11 February 2022 9:34 pm

If Francis Fukuyama was wrong about the end of history, he was right about one thing. Back in the scary…

'We failed': Denmark's media is waking up to its flawed Covid coverage

15 January 2022 1:44 am

‘We failed’. An editorial in Ekstra Bladet, Denmark’s leading tabloid, berates the Fourth Estate – including itself – for failing to…

Why isn't Britain adopting the Danish roadmap?

17 March 2021 3:22 am

Denmark’s greatest philosopher, Søren Kirkegaard, experienced only one epidemic in his lifetime, the cholera outbreak of 1853, which occurred after…