Inside this week | Sorry seems to be the strangest word

Turns out I’m not British anymore. Let’s look at the evidence. Two weeks in the UK over the summer and the sorry count was 30-0 in favour of my fellow pedestrians. On five occasions, I had to stop myself from saying: “No, that’s okay, it was my fault,” but then I remembered where I was. On three occasions I failed to cheer when a waitress dropped something. And I even managed to have a conversation about Paula Radcliffe without mentioning how she went for a piss during the London marathon.

Would a geezer like Danny Dyer apologise to an idiot who’s just turned direction and walked into him? Probably. He’s back with another bad lads documentary series, cockney-mentary if you like, to help launch our new TV page (or see how it looks in print ). With two new series on SVT1 and the start of the English Premier League season, there’s plenty to write about. As Danny himself might say: Cushtie!

I’d like to say the decision to get rid of the listings – in every single issue going back to June 1998 – was a hard one, but who are we kidding? It was fiddly, menial work updating you about the million times CSI and all its other clones were on, and it was high time for a change. 

Our viewing habits have changed a lot in 15 years – incredulously many claim to never watch TV, but you know what they mean. They’ll only watch it on their own terms: streamed, downloaded or pre-recorded, but hardly ever live, and god forbid one episode at a time. So conversely, our TV guide is now a guide for people who ‘don’t watch TV’. 

We’re going to start looking beyond the confines of Scandinavia as TV is truly global now. Every week we’ll do our best to recommend a series making a big splash overseas.

But while the TV’s good this week, going out is a whole lot better. Copenhagen Pride and the Malmö Festival are two of the biggest events of the year, and you don’t want to miss the Roskilde Air Show.  

Will some of you miss the TV listings? Maybe, and we sympathise. Just don’t expect me to say sorry. 




  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.


  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.