Borgen review: This antidote to real-life politics like The West Wing 2022

From the Danish political drama Borgen returning for the fourth series nearly a decade, later oil is found on the world's largest island. Fingers crossed Denmark's ambassador to the Arctic said in a Foreign Ministry briefing that the field would be as large and profitable as Ikofisk. Ikovysk remembers The oil field Norway has financed to secure the economic future of its citizens for generations while we Britons with sad faces have done nothing sensible with our income from the North Sea. For a second you might as well jump. Can you tell us about the political situation in Greenland? naturally. Greenland was a Danish colony from 1814 to 1953 when it became part of Denmark. The Home Rule was established in 1979 and voted for more self-governing powers in 2008. However, few of Greenland's 56000 people yearn for independence and use oil to finance this venture. Aren't, you glad you asked?

Borgen could have roughly the same name and even I know the episode dealing with the political intrigue of who should become Denmark's next EU commissioner is an hour better spent bathing in donkey milk with slices of cucumber over the eyes but this opening episode whistles along. It weaves fast and furiously between cabinet crisis rating problems on TV1 news and the personal and political problems of our heroine Birgit Nyborg while redefining us with my pale manly if not still outdated paradigms. To follow Soren Mulling. angry news editor Turpin Friese and bad boy economics wise Lars Mikkelsen Soren Raven.

Back to the plot. The government bean counter calculates that if the Greenland oil field produced 100 million barrels over 30 years it would generate a revenue stream of $285 billion. Finance Minister Helle Holst said at a cabinet meeting that the money would be paid to many teachers. But wait Denmark cannot be part of oil extraction our heroine who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs replies and thus Copenhagens responds to Liz Truss. Despite all the other things going on in her life hot flashes a son dedicated to freeing the pigs and her ex's new partner's pregnancy, she's the most far-sighted member of the Cabinet. He noted that Copenhagen signed the Paris Agreement and pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050. True says the realist Healy but this gives Denmark 28 years to exploit the new source of oil without breaking that promise. It's a suspension that would make the veins of Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot's foreheads pulse so hard that if these green energy sources could be connected to the national grid we might not need oil to boil water boilers.

To what extent this new Borgen series question should politicians defend their ideals? Should we sacrifice our principles on the altar of economic stability? The questions become even more troubling when we discover that the Russians have bought the Canadian stake in the company that is drilling for oil. Even worse the head of that company is a friend of Putin. Can the Danish government really support such a project at the same time as Western sanctions are being imposed on the Kremlin for invading Ukraine? If you answered yes then it is likely that it is Sergey Lavrov. Now we know why Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland. At Netflix, the premiere lot has changed since our last visit to Burgen in 2014. The Scandinavian British love story is over. No one complements Faroese sweaters well anymore. I happily stopped answering my phone Saga Norén Malmö CID. Denmark elected a second prime minister Mette Frederiksen. He hadn't picked any of them out when the show began about Nyborg's rise to the highest position.

However, as discussed Nyborgs career took a downward turn but she still wielded power as part of a coalition led by Signe Kragh. Indeed she is Nick Clegg for David Cameron if Clegg and Cameron are women and inspiring. But if the future is female the title of the first episode then there is no fraternal solidarity. Cragg discovers that Nyborg has gone to Dominic Cummings and files a report against his boss for the prime minister's outsized pro-oil stance. You're alone on an ice floe Cragg roared as he found out what Nyborg was doing behind his back. Let's hope it doesn't melt under your feet. Now that boys and girls are how they are a threat. If you like me long for democratic politics to be done with Machiavelli's sophistication and concern for the principles and details of politics in other words in a way that is inconsistent with Westminster practices you will agree that it would be great to bring back Burgen. . Like the 2022 edition of The West Wing, it's a fictional antidote to unbearable reality.