Michael Booth
@amichaelbooth.bsky.social
Author of 'THE ALMOST NEARLY PERFECT PEOPLE', 'SUSHI AND BEYOND', and other such books. Denmark correspondent, Monocle magazine. Contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller. michaelbooth.substack.com
Alle andre lakrids producenter, are you listening? Lakrids Stop Nu!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Alle andre lakrids producenter, are you listening? Lakrids Stop Nu!
'One Battle After Another'. What is it actually about? Other than 'some slickly-filmed things happen to some mildly engaging characters'.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
'One Battle After Another'. What is it actually about? Other than 'some slickly-filmed things happen to some mildly engaging characters'.
Architecture's great communicator takes to the stage. With Bjarke Ingels. www.licitationen.dk/article/view...
Stjernearkitekten skød to dages hæsblæsende byggefest i gang
Building Green blev skudt i gang med Bjarke Ingels på scenen
www.licitationen.dk
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Architecture's great communicator takes to the stage. With Bjarke Ingels. www.licitationen.dk/article/view...
I saw the Russian sub sail under Storebælts bridge yesterday tailed by a Danish frigate. Creepy.
Sverige sender kampfly ud til russisk ubåd i Østersøen
Internationalt | Seneste internationale nyheder og begivenheder som f.eks. tsunamien i Stillehavet, krigene i Ukraine og Gaza. Vi dækker, hvad der sker.
politiken.dk
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I saw the Russian sub sail under Storebælts bridge yesterday tailed by a Danish frigate. Creepy.
So?
Polish daredevil JedrekBargiel has become the first person to climb then ski down the world’s highest mountain without the aid ⬇️
Climber shuns bottled oxygen in historic Everest mission with skis
Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to climb then ski down the world’s highest mountain without the aid
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
So?
Tate Britain is such an underrated museum. End of message.
September 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Tate Britain is such an underrated museum. End of message.
Funnily enough I play in almost exactly the same outfit.
'Tennis at Hertingfordbury.' (1910) The setting for Spencer Gore’s painting is Garth House, the home of his mother in the village of Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire. Gore’s father was a champion tennis player who won the first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon in 1877.
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Funnily enough I play in almost exactly the same outfit.
“They were found and decoded by a team including George Lasry, Israeli computer scientist, Satoshi Tomokiyo, a Japanese astrophysicist, and Norbert Biermann, German music professor. They routinely go through archives and decode ancient ciphers purely for fun.” All crime writers rush to typewriters.
June 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“They were found and decoded by a team including George Lasry, Israeli computer scientist, Satoshi Tomokiyo, a Japanese astrophysicist, and Norbert Biermann, German music professor. They routinely go through archives and decode ancient ciphers purely for fun.” All crime writers rush to typewriters.
God, totally.
DR OG TV 2 går i selvsving over de mest perifere sportsnyheder
Det danske medielandskab er fyldt med klaphat-reportager, hvor vi konstant skal orienteres om selv den mindste sportsbegivenhed med breaking, live og gule bjælker.
politiken.dk
June 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
God, totally.
Wait. WHAT????
Familien fra Silkeborg er ikke i tvivl: De vil ned til varmen og på ferie
Familien fra Silkeborg er ikke i tvivl: De vil ned til varmen og på ferie
Charlotte Skøtt glæder sig til næste uge, hvor hun og hendes mand har inviteret hele familien på 18 medlemmer på ferie til Rhodos.
dlvr.it
June 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wait. WHAT????
How did James Brown ever make a living in the world of words? "I didn’t really know what I would be visiting, but as a former NME writer it dawned on me that I was finally swapping sex and drugs and rock’n’roll for seeds and buds and garden rollers." www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Sex, drugs and rockeries: from Loaded editor to garden festivals
James Brown once embodied the party lifestyle. So how did he become obsessed with exotic seeds and secateurs?
www.thetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
How did James Brown ever make a living in the world of words? "I didn’t really know what I would be visiting, but as a former NME writer it dawned on me that I was finally swapping sex and drugs and rock’n’roll for seeds and buds and garden rollers." www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Richard, thanks for providing a little beauty into my day with these posts.
George Clausen was 88 when he painted this work in the summer 1940, the culmination of a series of back garden views seen from bedroom windows which had begun three decades earlier.
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Richard, thanks for providing a little beauty into my day with these posts.
Reposted by Michael Booth
Gummiagtige porrer. Stenhårde, sure ferskner. Grisekød, der smager af vand. Er I danskere blevet fuldstændig ligeglade med, hvad I putter i munden?
I de seneste 20 år har I fortalt resten af verden, hvilket madmekka Danmark er. Men i dag er madrevolutionen visnet.
politiken.dk
June 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Gummiagtige porrer. Stenhårde, sure ferskner. Grisekød, der smager af vand. Er I danskere blevet fuldstændig ligeglade med, hvad I putter i munden?
Oh stop it, The Times.
BBC fact-checker service under scrutiny after White House attack
BBC fact-checker service under scrutiny after White House attack
www.thetimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oh stop it, The Times.
I made a report on MAD7 monocle.com/player/?uuid... #MAD7
Player - Monocle
monocle.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I made a report on MAD7 monocle.com/player/?uuid... #MAD7
When in Rome... www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... Alice Thomsen leaving her bike unlocked in Copenhagen. (I don't know a single Copenhagener who hasn't had their bike stolen but, hey-ho).
How Denmark’s left sent migrants packing
Tough rules on settlement and integration, rather than tight borders, mean only 860 were granted asylum last year
www.thetimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
When in Rome... www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... Alice Thomsen leaving her bike unlocked in Copenhagen. (I don't know a single Copenhagener who hasn't had their bike stolen but, hey-ho).
Reposted by Michael Booth
I’ve always felt people should pronounce words exactly how they want (though I’m not keen on ‘haitch’ or ‘mischiev-i-ous’). But pronouncing the ‘j’ in Beijing softly like French ‘je’ instead of hard like ‘jingle’ pains me because people think it’s accurate. It isn’t.
May 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’ve always felt people should pronounce words exactly how they want (though I’m not keen on ‘haitch’ or ‘mischiev-i-ous’). But pronouncing the ‘j’ in Beijing softly like French ‘je’ instead of hard like ‘jingle’ pains me because people think it’s accurate. It isn’t.
Kenneth Branagh would make an amazing Noel Edmonds in The Noel Edmonds Story.
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Kenneth Branagh would make an amazing Noel Edmonds in The Noel Edmonds Story.
Reposted by Michael Booth
In 2010, Mark Zuckberberg became Time's "Person of The Year". The article is surreal reading today.
Here are just two quotes:
"As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological"
"Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"
Here are just two quotes:
"As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological"
"Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In 2010, Mark Zuckberberg became Time's "Person of The Year". The article is surreal reading today.
Here are just two quotes:
"As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological"
"Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"
Here are just two quotes:
"As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological"
"Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"
Someone just began an email to me with: 'I'm closing the loop on the previous outreach'.
May 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Someone just began an email to me with: 'I'm closing the loop on the previous outreach'.
And there, in three statistics, is everything that's gone wrong.
No-one wants to lose their livelihood. But fishing contributes less than £1bn to UK Gross Value Added, and supports fewer than 7,000 full-time jobs as fishermen.
For comparison, that's about the same size as UK's tattooist market (7k jobs), and much smaller than horse racing (£4bn GVA, 70k+ jobs)
For comparison, that's about the same size as UK's tattooist market (7k jobs), and much smaller than horse racing (£4bn GVA, 70k+ jobs)
May 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
And there, in three statistics, is everything that's gone wrong.
Reposted by Michael Booth
Harald Slott-Møller's 'Summer Day,' (1888) was painted in Skagen, in the far north of Denmark, the fishing town made famous by artists who first discovered the area and its special quality of light in the 1800s.
May 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Harald Slott-Møller's 'Summer Day,' (1888) was painted in Skagen, in the far north of Denmark, the fishing town made famous by artists who first discovered the area and its special quality of light in the 1800s.
Just reading about Copenhagen's "lesser-explored Latin Quarter" and the "suburb" of Nørrebro in The Times Travel section. www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
17 of the best hotels in Copenhagen
Discover the best hotels in the Danish capital, from marvels of Scandinavian modernism to sophisticated boutiques with scene-setting lidos.
www.thetimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just reading about Copenhagen's "lesser-explored Latin Quarter" and the "suburb" of Nørrebro in The Times Travel section. www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...
A 74-year-old truck driver!
A body found inside a truck that fell into a sinkhole in Saitama Prefecture in January has been identified as the truck's 74-year-old driver, prefectural police said.
Body in Saitama sinkhole identified as that of truck driver
The body was found on May 2 after the truck fell into the sinkhole created at the center of an intersection in the city of Yashio on Jan. 28.
www.japantimes.co.jp
May 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A 74-year-old truck driver!