Michael Booth
The Monocle Design Awards 2026: The most beautiful buildings and architectural design
Eight spaces that caught our eye this year – from a trade school championing craft to a revived waterfront.
Denmark’s politics is all a bit chaotic right now – but Danes like it that way
Following last week’s general elections, Danish lawmakers are locked in the routine negotiations that come with forming a coalition government. The closed-door talks are led by the kongelig undersøger or “royal investigator”, which sounds like a…
Martin Krasnik is the newspaper veteran restoring trust in the media with Denmark’s most resilient title
In the first of our new series featuring editors working to rebuild confidence in the media in the age of free content and misinformation, we meet the cool-headed Dane of weekly title ‘Weekendavisen’.
Denmark has never had it so good. So why are its voters so unhappy?
There’s a paradox (or several) behind the Danes heading to the polls. Think the grass is always greener in Denmark? Think again.
Novo Nordisk’s slimming down is symptomatic of Danish business naivety
We’re not ones for kicking folks when they’re down but things seem to be going from bad to worse for Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk. The drugmaker was once Europe’s most valuable company thanks…
Should Denmark take over the Shetland Islands?
President Trump’s acquisitive gaze has drifted from Greenland, at least for now. Denmark’s pipe-smoking foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, seems to have Jedi mind-tricked the Americans into believing that their military efforts would be…
If Trump’s threats have made anything clear, it’s that Danes don’t care about Greenland
Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to take over Greenland. But are Danes as concerned as they might seem?
Denmark 2026 forecast: Diplomacy, downfall and Donald Trump
Looking back on 2025, it is hard not to conclude that the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has played a good hand badly. It’s an assessment that applies as much to her own political…
