Nordic Horizons | Lesley Riddoch | Activity https://nordichorizons.org/members/lesley/activity/ Activity feed for Lesley Riddoch. Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:18:22 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e3b0b8c0b18e4dd160f69fcc2fbcfbf6 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=7180 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:54:55 +0000 Podcast – Iceland, the fire island Iceland has a stunning landscape with glaciers galore … but is more properly fire island. Lava, earthquakes eruptions and volcanoes dominate life and w […]

]]> 0 29a2f4b4861682b99e7fadc035e5d29d Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=7177 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:07:46 +0000 10: Iceland – fire island Iceland has a stunning landscape with glaciers galore … but is more properly fire island. Lava, earthquakes eruptions and volcanoes d […]

]]> 0 047d6a2b181d7c6dfd39db90880c34d2 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=7159 Wed, 17 May 2023 21:25:57 +0000 Is Gothenburg Sweden's green capital? Gothenburg once boasted the world’s largest shipyards, but faced with Japanese and Korean competition, the oil crisis and a world economic […]

]]> 0 730856dc9e56ef9ca78e997f5a380b16 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=7166 Wed, 17 May 2023 21:16:32 +0000 9: Gothenburg – has this former shipyard city become Sweden's green capital? Gothenburg in Sweden once boasted the world’s largest shipyards, but in the face […]

]]> 0 7574291be1ab8fb1abf498c7adb9b363 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=7077 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:12:49 +0000 8: Bot-savvy Finns Finland has a particular source of propaganda to deal with in the shape of Russia. Misinformation attacks have focused on familiar […]

]]> 0 40edc224fdeea098b268ab8cffde1a04 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6967 Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:25:18 +0000 PODCAST; Finland – the future is cooperative While Britain struggles with sky-high bills, and private water, electricity and oil companies make record profits, Finland relies on a unique […]

]]> 0 7b54b4888e46710deb3b353ebf6d2a2c Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6971 Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:21:43 +0000 Finland has a 1300 km long land border with Russia, it fought two wars in the 1940s to defend then reclaim lost territory, and is now applying to join NATO. There, most knowledge of Finland ends.Which is a […]

]]> 0 f74e295fd84f8962817c11f46f0beb51 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6929 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:37:24 +0000 New – The Nordic Horizons Explainer Podcast It’s twelve years since Dan Wynn and Lesley Riddoch set up a think tank to focus on the policy successes of Scotland’s Nordic neighbours. Since then, […]

]]> 0 f55e6741d64940bcf29534c1f7105c7a Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6932 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:36:35 +0000 It’s twelve years since Dan Wynn and Lesley Riddoch set up a think tank to focus on the policy successes of Scotland’s Nordic neighbours. Since then, Nordic Horizons has organised almost 70 meetings – most of them […]

]]> 0 0ec3b7be50910c63462ebecd98a59a1a Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6922 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:00:29 +0000 Podcast – Finland's fight against Russian cyber attacks Fake news and cyber attacks are helping undermine democracy, legitimise extremist views, push groundless conspiracy theories and provide cover for […]

]]> 0 e3da38efa207a5643e2a53fd10dffd26 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6840 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:18:18 +0000 Podcast; Jean Sibelius – Finland's musical genius This is a Nordic Horizons podcast with a difference. It isn’t about policy, politics, climate change or kindergarten – it’s about culture. And the […]

]]> 0 d8ad5c50ac75e9baffcba50f64c95c48 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6853 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:11:21 +0000 ‘Finland doesn’t have a long history of Kings and castles. We have always been occupied. When we finally became free the country was built on language, literature, music, paintings. Sibelius created the d […]

]]> 0 de91efe9fa9f296baa91a09dd840c16a Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6916 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:52:05 +0000 Is Scotland set to follow Norway with a shift to kindergarten for the early years and a school starting age 6/7 not the present 4/5?Just 12 per cent of countries send five-year-olds to school. Almost all are […]

]]> 0 3f97c67b47e2948746501a948f60bfcc Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=3930 Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:06:51 +0000 4. Podcast: Get oot to play – school can wait How would you measure success in the early years of a child’s education? In the […]

]]> 0 e8df5fff73d2cd5a3b3c699274e8b183 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6468 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:44:11 +0000 Why did district heating start on farms in Denmark?Are the Norwegians wiser to depend on electrification?Could Scotland do something game changing with smart, local energy networks?Will nuclear help Sweden reach […]

]]> 0 c5b2c098c264100b13e6e8e1cb36d6ea Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6311 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:01:28 +0000 Since Scotland’s ‘local’ elections in May 2022, there’s been much debate about coalitions and control. But there’s a bigger question – are Scottish councils with an average of 175 thousand inhabitants really local […]

]]> 0 3f4778f476126c0d4e67207389674eb8 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6241 Thu, 19 May 2022 09:33:01 +0000 This is a podcast edited from the conversation between three Nordic experts talking about Russian aggression in Ukraine and the way it is unravelling 70 years of neutrality and non-alignment in Scandinavia. It […]

]]> 0 6278e624bfa1f603d6f79654163bc9d9 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=5852 Tue, 10 May 2022 08:16:16 +0000 PODCAST: NATO membership for Finland & Sweden – the end of Baltic neutrality?? This podcast was produced after a fascinating online Nordic Horizons meeting in March 2022, eight weeks before the Swedish and Finnish premiers […]

]]> 0 9f6d0e53c6634446c169a17951895d56 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=6058 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 09:10:37 +0000 NEW PODCAST Powerful pint-sized Nordic democracy Scotland has the largest units of ‘local’ government in the developed world with just 32 councils for 5.3 million folk. Norway has almost 400 councils […]

]]> 0 dea3c711414c0843e05145eca1743662 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=5234 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:42:08 +0000 Heating homes without gas – the Nordic way None of Scotland’s Nordic neighbours depends on gas for heating – but 85% of homes in Scotland do. Why the big difference? How did Nordic nations jump […]

]]> 0 7218154877cff45105fff21c616b46ea Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=5017 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:28:02 +0000 October 2021 Event: Are the Nordics going left? [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A video of the event can be found below the introduction on this […]

]]> 0 fa9834af473bf64d672d1a422ef414e0 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4931 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:29:28 +0000 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nordic Horizons returns with a free Zoom event featuring six speakers for insights into the way Nordic nations are learning to live with Covid.
As Scotland re-imposes […]

]]> 0 e763c61222da2c33eea9edabc8b161d8 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4884 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:19:54 +0000 So many fabulous Nordic performers are appearing at Celtic Connections in January 2020, it seemed a good idea to list them. Each year, Scotland’s largest traditional music festival presents a “showcase Sco […]

]]> 0 4d3ad314cfaadd04640861447b52d820 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4858 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:06:21 +0000 Film: Outdoor kindergarten in Arctic NorwayAt long last, outdoor nurseries and kindergartens are getting some official encouragement in Scotland. Pioneers like the Secret Garden in Fife and […]

]]> 0 dde5efaca1e6c6a59969d975d40c5aae Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4783 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:42:33 +0000 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since 2010 Nordic Horizons has brought six Nordic experts a year to Scotland to share experience and ideas from some of the world’s most successful countries. We’ve covered iss […]

]]> 0 407c86bd8221ec02312db408eab72774 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4388 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:14:30 +0000 Podcasts [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Transistor Podcasts from Nordic Horizon events At last (well, we’re excited anyway) you can keep […]

]]> 0 1af9fd86dbbd0ef641ff10f7a6d6536a Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=3937 Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:04:10 +0000 Electric cars in Norway have risen to a record 54% market share, making this Nordic country the first in the world where the sale of electric cars has outstripped any other type for a full year. It’s quite a […]

]]> 0 e37168d46d579bc767a5e26ebed5e144 Lesley Riddoch wrote a new post https://nordichorizons.org/?p=4101 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:07:53 +0000 This event in May 2012 was hosted by the Convenor of the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee, Stewart Maxwell MSP and sponsored by the Finnish Embassy with Nordic Horizons

‘The story of Finland’s […]

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