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Journalist, mostly reporting on Finland & Nordics. Columnist at @hsfi / Newsletter: @finland_insider 🐶 Dog walker, 🏉 lapsed rugby player, 🇫🇮 Fennophile
Jul 22, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read
🇳🇴 It's 12 years today since the Oslo bombing and Utøya massacre. A reminder that far-right terrorist Anders Breivik was smitten with Jussi Halla-aho the current Speaker of Parliament in #Finland and quoted him in his writings. Would you believe one of the responses to this from the right was 'how could Andere Breivik know what Halla-aho wrote back then because google translate wasn't very good" FML
Nov 4, 2022 14 tweets 9 min read
It's been a busy week across the north of Europe so just in time for some weekend reading, here's a taste of our @euronews reporting of some pretty fascinating stories you might not have seen elsewhere: 🇩🇰 Starting with the general election in #Denmark, won by incumbent PM Mette Frederiksen who leads a left-wing bloc of parties:

euronews.com/my-europe/2022…
Oct 27, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
"She makes beautiful speeches in the Sámi Parliament. She promises things, but it doesn't happen. She has the power to act. But she doesn't."

In #Finland, PM @MarinSanna is being criticised for her lack of decisive action to safeguard human rights for indigenous people. Thread⬇️ Various 🇺🇳 United Nations organisations have been urging 🇫🇮 #Finland for years to sort out the human rights situation for Sámi people (the EU's only indigenous people) - and been very critical of the lack of progress to enshrine the rights of self-determination into law.
Aug 29, 2022 15 tweets 8 min read
🧵Here's a fun thread for Monday! If you like #climatecrisis #ilmastonmuutos, travel, adventure, #Finland 🇫🇮, entitlement, colonialism and not a hint of irony then I guarantee you'll love this story! ⬇️ Meet the cast of a new Finnish reality TV show! Wait, not a TV show, it's just reality. These folks are (mostly) entrepreneurs who went on an expedition to 🇬🇱 #Greenland. How exciting! But why did they go to Greenland, you ask?🤔