Visting Denmark

Arrived in Denmark yesterday on a kind of working social visit, but the highlight is spending time with my best friend and his family in the cute little island house. Since spending some time here about three or four years ago, I have always had a fond affection for this place, and it seems that the Danes share a very similar sense of humour to the British. It's a very flat little country that sticks out from the Northern point of Germany almost straining itself in its independence.

Picked up a book at the airport by Mark Curtis which looks at Britain's human rights abuses. I'm only about a hundred pages into the text, but it seems pretty solid. I am a bit of a sucker for the self-hating armchair activisit book, and I already have quite an impressive shelf at home, boasting No Logo, and Das Kapital amogst others. That said, the more of these texts you read, the more they they start read the same; they appear to work at developing a pathological rage about the many issues that plague the world as a priest emphasises sin. That is not to say that these books are a bad thing - I think they're extremely important - they're just not 'feel good' reads, that's all. Oh, and God bless Noam Chomsky, my own personal hero.

Also reading the new Harry Potter novel, and I have to say that it isn't a patch on her previous works. The Goblet of fire was my own personal fave, but even The Order of the Phoenix seemed to mark a slight decline, which is hardly surprising considering it's the fifth one she's had to write. Having said that, I am only two-thirds of the way through so anything can happen, and they are certainly getting darker, which is a good thing.