A Denmark state of mind
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The country’s ability to think on an issue-by-issue basis is rare in a tribal era

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.22-081552/https://www.ft.com/content/9bc7496b-3504-47ac-aae6-7738de6adcf5

Who else has what we might call a Danish — that is, heterodox — cast of mind? The journalist Peter Hitchens is a church-and-king conservative with un-Tory views about trade unions, government housing and even the second world war. (Just as his brother Christopher, at the height of his leftism, backed Margaret Thatcher over the Falklands.) Who among Jeremy Clarkson’s fans or enemies knows that he has favoured a “liberal United States of Europe”, with “one army”, since long before the shocks of the past month or so?

The tragedy is that, in a tribal era, this kind of thing comes across as scattiness or wilful contrarianism, when it is just the mark of a thinking person.

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Employers can fire easily, which make it easier for companies to hire for expansion, but also fire if the expansion fails.

    This is good. It makes a lot of sense that the financial welfare of people should be offloaded off the backs of employers (who need to be dynamic), and onto the state.