Today’s big topic: The chariman’s special adviser has been hired to do work for the party that fired him
What’s happening?
Pia Olsen Dyhr and SF have been under heavy scrutiny since news broke that the party chairman had rehired a special advisor, who had been laid off due to accusations of sexual misconduct.
When SF’s leader, Pia Olsen Dyhr, defended her decision to rehire her former chief adviser, Thomas Nystrøm, she pointed out that nearly six years had passed since, in 2020, she, as party leader, decided that he should no longer work for SF.
After six years, it was only »reasonable« that he be given another chance, Olsen Dyhr said.
But there is an important nuance regarding the adviser’s time in the wilderness that has not previously been publicly known:
Thomas Nystrøm has not been entirely out of touch with SF in recent years. In fact, the party has used him as an external consultant for part of the period after he was forced to leave his position in 2020 because of accusations of misconduct toward several women in the party.
Why it matters!
For many years, Thomas Nystrøm was Pia Olsen Dyhr’s closest adviser, until he left SF in 2020 after accusations from several women of unacceptable behavior.
As Politiken has previously described, Pia Olsen Dyhr at the time sent an email to fellow SF member, Lotte Kofoed, one of the women, in which SF’s leader explained that she had personally made the decision for her adviser to leave.
»I immediately set the handling of the matter in motion when I learned of it and then took the most far-reaching consequence one can as an employer. I think this is a serious matter«.
But Nystrøm has worked as a consultant for SF in the period between him being fired and re-hired. SF’s organization do not want to inform Politiken about dates or contents of the consultant work, Nystrøm has helped with. As a reaction to all the attention and pressure SF and Pia Olsen Dyhr have faced, Nystrøm has withdrawn from his position as special advisor.
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In other news
–Copenhagen Sprint proved it was nothing to be ashamed of
On Sunday, the second edition was staged under intense scrutiny in central Copenhagen, where thousands of spectators braved the rain to watch Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen win ahead of Danish hope Tobias Lund in a nail-biting sprint in front of the National Gallery of Denmark. And even though this year’s race, too, was marked by a brutal crash in the closing phase that wiped out a large part of the field, Copenhagen Sprint proved it has a legitimate sporting purpose.
Because tucked behind special craft beers, Anne Linnet songs, and a talk by lifestyle expert Anne Glad about what your bicycle says about you as a person, there is a race with a place on the calendar as the sprinters’ big dress rehearsal before the Tour de France.
Read the full article here.
– Danes with the highest incomes can look forward to reaping four times as much from the new government’s policies as those with the lowest incomes
If you divide Danish families into 10 groups by income, the tenth with the lowest incomes is set to have 2,900 kroner more at its disposal per family member each year after tax. For those in the middle of the income hierarchy, each family member can expect 4,000–4,300 kroner more a year after tax. And for the tenth with the highest incomes, the gain comes to 12,100 kroner per family member each year after tax — more than four times as much as for those with the lowest incomes.
That the gains are so much larger for those at the top is chiefly because the government wants to grant tax cuts to high earners by abolishing the middle tax and the top-top tax, and by cutting the corporate tax as well.
The new government claims that their new policy increases equality in Denmark. This is due to the fact that low-wage earners benefit relatively more than high earners do. For the tenth with the lowest incomes, the gain from the government’s policies amounts to 3.3 percent of their income. For the tenth with the highest incomes, the gain is a more modest 2.1 percent of income.
– New survey shows many Danes have changed their minds about weapons of mass destruction
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the United States’ dismantling of 80 years of security architecture have profoundly reshaped Danes’ views on defense and security policy. In the survey, 40 percent say they agree that Denmark should take part in a European nuclear cooperation — less than a majority, to be sure. But only half as many say they disagree.
Much the same is true of the question of accepting nuclear weapons in Denmark in peacetime, thereby breaking with decades of official policy. Most strikingly, a clear majority agree that Britain’s and France’s nuclear weapons should be included in a common defense of the European Union.
Talk of town: Danish music’s answer to Gladstone Glander stepped into his role as a leather-clad pop god
Christopher onstage at Valbyparken, where he played his biggest concert to date at home.
Pop star Christopher played the biggest home-field concert of his career in Valbyparken on Saturday. The Danish musician has made a huge name for himself in Asia, but now he is stepping up at home as well.
His two newest Danish-language songs sit at No. 1 and No. 3 on the charts.
The guy with the biggest song in Denmark right now opened the concert with an acoustic guitar and a smile you could probably see from the moon.
And the crowd? They scream-sang it right back into his beaming smile.
Musically, he ranged very widely.
From fresh-made kid-friendly pop on “Crazy” to minimalist 2010s EDM on the Brandon Beal duet “Twerk It Like Miley.”
From the Justin Timberlake-cheeky “Told You So” to the square-cut, Lukas Graham starter kit of “Irony.”
Not every song landed with equal force.
But Christopher embraced his role as a leather-clad pop god and, impressively, made his back catalog feel current.
Read the entire review here.
This newsletter features stories originally published in Danish. AI was used to shorten and translate the articles into English, after which a member of the editorial staff reviewed and refined the content.