Some Questions for Margrethe Vestager
No, nothing rhetorical or sarcastic here: It’s the real deal. On Tuesday, 1 December 2009, a distinguished team consisting of Lene Rimestad and yours truly will be cross-examining the political leader of the Social Liberal Party (aka Radikale Venstre) Margrethe Vestager between noon and 2 pm. in front of a no doubt enthusiastic audience of journalism and polsci students at SDU. There’s even a Facebook page to celebrate the event. Related posts:

Why You Should Always Be Careful to Watch the Entire Video
I told you so. Related posts:Travelling with DSB or SJ Could Be Worse The Independent in its “The 50 Most Ludicrous Britons 2008″...Einmal Zentralismus und Zurück As we are rapidly approaching the 60th anniversary o

The Smallest Possible Reshuffle, or: A Ph.D. in PolSci Can Get You Anywhere
That Connie Hedegaard was nominated as the Danish candidate for the next European Commission was hardly surprising to anyone, but at least we can now speculate about how her future portfolio will look like. By “we”, I mean people who know something about the internal workings of the commission-to-be, so I will leave this aside and speculate about something else that I really don’t know anything about. 1. Why a minimalist reshuffle? Just about anybody and his grandmother are expecting a more substantial reshuffle, and that somebody would be leaving the government in favour of Brussels was 110 per cent certain, so why didn’t Løkke g

The Bondam Incident
Incredible but true: They are still negotiating in some of the local councils. Today, Kerteminde much to everybody’s surprise got a new mayor (the term “suicide mission” comes to hand, given the state of Kerteminde) and Nordfyn also suddenly looks shaky. Or perhaps I should say: Everything is going as usual. In many places, the distribution of posts and spoils went relatively fast and smoothly, but there were the usual hiccups. Hiccu

Meanwhile, in the Comments Section
1. There are ten twitters in Odense. c|net thinks that Twitter is dead. (Well, almost) … hey, I’m part of the twelite! 2. There are ten types of blog commenters. And yes, I was very much in Unfogged mode Sunday. 3. The Metropolitan Region was something of a mess during the past week. Occasionally, the Monty Python Region felt like a more accurate name. 4. On Wednesday, the Socialist Party