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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
Recent media reports of Danish police brutality brought back memories of my student days in “wonderful Cop-enhagen”. Some days ago, the police there arrested almost a thousand mostly peaceful and law-abiding marchers and were only able to ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
Is existentialism nationalism? The “turbulent priest” and Danish People’s Party parliamentarian Søren Krarup argues that it is. The following is a translation of an article he published in Politiken on 10th November 2009. He draws on Kierkegaard ...
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I came across this shop today and found it quite original and amusing. It´s in Salusbury Road, London NW6. I hadn’t had lunch and was going to work in a recording studio next door to it, so I went in ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
I am a member of the Broadcast, Entertainment, Communication and Theatre Union, BECTU. Like most people in this country BECTU understandably finds the BNP’s views abhorrent. Its policy of denying the party airtime is more difficult to ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
[Unicorns are] scarcely smaller than elephants. They have the hair of a buffalo and feet like an elephant’s. They have a single large black horn in the middle of the forehead. They have a head like a ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
Today’s Guardian reported about a lawsuit by the teacher’s union NASUWT, which may bar members of the BNP from becoming school governors in England.[1] It seems that while the barbarians are at the gates in the UK, ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
I am pleased but mystified that somebody has placed us among the top 100 blogs on Denmark. How did that happen? The Internet does move in mysterious ways. I have no idea how these choices are made, ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
On the 10th August 2009 Juliane Henningsen, one the two Greenlandic members of the Danish parliament, asked a Prime Minister’s question about the forced removal of Greenlandic children in the 1950s. The following is my translation of ...
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Kenn Nakata Steffensen
Prescript
This was originally written and never published on the day after Martin Jacques’ article appeared in The Guardian. Now that his book When China rules the world (London: Allen Lane, 2009) is out, I felt it ...
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Some thoughts provoked by “Me, Putin and judo”
BBC Radio 4, 11:00 GMT, Friday 9th January 2009
Kenn Nakata Steffensen
Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the Orient because the Orient was weaker than the West, which elided ...
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Cultural Meanings
Kenn Nakata Steffensen
On the 1st and 2nd of June 2009 the Royal Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science held a discussion meeting entitled “New frontiers in science diplomacy”. On 2nd June 2009 the first afternoon ...