It's odd that in the past few days the far-right Danish People's Party has taken half as many votes as the Social Democrats in the Danish general election and the UK media have ignored this, preferring to concentrate on the largely irrelevant but showy NPD in Saxony.

But this is how the media in general treat threats to a free society: they overplay the successes of small eye-catching extremist groups and underplay what the main parties, no matter how anti-constitutional, are up to. I was pleased to get something of an explanation of present-day Danish politics from taz, which deployed the euphemism Einwandererskeptisch, or immigrant-sceptic, to describe the mainstream, that is Venstre, the Conservatives, the Social Democrats and the Danish People's Party, Danish parties.

taz is a bit like The Independent, but with a sense of humour.

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