Politician – The CSPA

I met the family who have agreed to host my brief stay in Copenhagen. They were warm, and extremely welcoming. If the idea behind wooloo.orgâ€™sÂ New Life Copenhagen initiativeÂ â€“ which matches visitors to host families â€“ is to embody the a new openness, then it may well be working. They are not the sort of people whose paths would normally cross with mine; Lars is involved in local politics as a right-wing politician. Gitte, his partner, says the Danish rarely invite people into their homes. But that is the point. Last night, over tea, we talked, all thoroughly enjoying the strangeness of it.

I wonder if we will get around to completing the questions in the New Life Copenhagen Guest/Host book that was left by my bed for us all to fill inF?

Would you describe yourself as an argumentative person?

Have you ever discriminated against somebody?

Have you ever been a victim of war?

Find an item in the home of your host that you find strange.

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Why does it always have to be Chas?

This morningâ€™s Telegraph leads with the story of Prince Charles giving theÂ warning that we have â€œless than 100 months to save the worldâ€œ.

Wonder what sort of crisis would it take to get a mainstream politician to make a similarly unequivocal statementÂ – one which in the light of new data emerging now on an amost daily basis is, after all, hardly scientifically controversial?

As long as the public continues to doubt the climtate science, as IPSOS Mori polls show they do, politicians remain reluctant to call a stick a stick – though to move swiftly from one metaphor to another, itâ€™s unclear in this case which is the egg and which is the chicken.

In such circumstances, itâ€™s not surprising that the undemocratic medium of green custard will continue to be used.

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My Copenhagen hostsâ€¦

Why does it always have to be Chas?