Last weekend more than 100,000 people descended on the towns of Allinge and Sandvig on the island of Bornholm. They’ve come to The People’s Democratic Festival, Folkemødet, to hear people talk. Several hundred tents are pitched throughout the two towns and inside them people can be found debating, day and night. The hosts are political parties, media, lobby groups and NGOs. All use the opportunity to pitch their agenda and engage their audience. I spent three days at Folkemødet, soaking...
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Last weekend more than 100,000 people descended on the towns of Allinge and Sandvig on the island of Bornholm. They’ve come to The People’s Democratic Festival, Folkemødet, to hear people talk. Several hundred tents are pitched throughout the two towns and inside them people can be found debating, day and night. The hosts are political parties, media, lobby groups and NGOs. All use the opportunity to pitch their agenda and engage their audience. I spent three days at Folkemødet, soaking...
What the closure of Radio24Syv tells us about Danish populism
The Danish Debate
32 minutes
6 years ago
What the closure of Radio24Syv tells us about Danish populism
A successful talk radio station is set to close after the government stipulated that 70 percent of the editorial staff has to relocate 110 kilometres from Copenhagen. The same government that has moved more than 4,000 state jobs out of the capital at a cost of 550 million kroner. So are too many state jobs and cultural institutions concentrated in the capital? Or are the policies a classic example of populism – sowing divisions between an imagined urban elite, and authentic rural population....
The Danish Debate
Last weekend more than 100,000 people descended on the towns of Allinge and Sandvig on the island of Bornholm. They’ve come to The People’s Democratic Festival, Folkemødet, to hear people talk. Several hundred tents are pitched throughout the two towns and inside them people can be found debating, day and night. The hosts are political parties, media, lobby groups and NGOs. All use the opportunity to pitch their agenda and engage their audience. I spent three days at Folkemødet, soaking...
