Parken - the stadium from Øster Allé

Parken, the national stadium, in Østerbro, has a prominent location on the east side of Fælledparken, and is on the site of an earlier stadium - Idrætsparken.

Record attendance is actually 60,000 people but that was not for a football match but for the Michael Jackson concert in 1997 and the roof was not added for the comfort of players or spectators but for a Eurovision Song Contest.

In the new work under the architects CF Møller, capacity in the stadium will be increased, with the stands rebuilt, and new office buildings will be constructed at three of the four corners.

Kulturministriet - the Danish Ministry of Culture - is in the centre of Copenhagen - in an old merchant’s house on Nybrogade - at the west end of Gammel Strand

With the return of the government to Borgen for the Autumn session, there have been rumours that Kulturministriet - the Ministry of Culture - could be reorganised.

Joy Mogensen, the current Minister of Culture, has a double portfolio for she is also Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs but, in addition, has ministerial responsibility for sport in Denmark.

I know many describe football as an art and fans worship their star players and follow their chosen sport with religious devotion and, maybe - in our post-Coronavirus world - getting crowds back, is the priority now, for managers of football stadiums and managers of theatres, but can religion, culture and sport really be seen as completely easy bedfellows under a single minister?

This spotlights … or maybe floodlights …. a problem that all small or relatively small countries have and that is how you cover everything with a relatively small number of people.

In Denmark, there are around 25 ministerial departments and the ruling party here - currently the Social Democratic Party - has 48 members of parliament out of a total of 179 who are elected to Folketinget - the Danish parliament - so in theory over half of the MPs could be ministers.

In comparison, the Tory Prime Minister in Britain appoints ministers from its 364 members of parliament - out of a total of 650 seats in the Lower House - and they can also bring in as ministers any of the 245 Conservative peers, out of a total of 1,422, in the House of Lords. In theory, that is a much larger gene pool but I would not dare to comment on which ministers from which parliaments in which country can be seen to be better at running things in their respective countries at the moment.