geography – Denseman on the Rattis

Formerly known as the Widmann Blog

Counterurbanisation and the corona crisis – or why this is the right time to buy a rural property

I started writing this blog post back in October, long before anybody had even heard of the coronavirus. I didn’t

In the past I’ve been writing about ways to split up England for the purpose of making federalism work in

Iain Macwhirter recently wrote an interesting blog posting comparing the Scottish Highlands with the French Pyrenees. He’s bemoaning how the

I recently stumbled upon a collection of odd maps. Many of them are rather US-centric, but a few of them

Swiss Tree Originally uploaded by Enro The front page of today’s Economist is dedicated to a story about what would

London skyline. Skyline de Londres. Originally uploaded by J. A. Alcaide The political class in Westminster tend to look at

There’s an article on Yes Scotland’s website today about border controls in Scandinavia (or rather the lack thereof). At first

Last year I blogged about a program I had written to calculate the nearest capital. It just occurred to me

My Home Office III Originally uploaded by TranceMist Surprisingly, the Internet still hasn’t enabled the majority of people to work

Two weeks ago, the Better Nation blog contained a posting by Jeff Breslin which contained the following passage: Perhaps the