Judging by how well it fares in the annual UN World Happiness Report, there’s not much rotten in the state of Denmark. It regularly tops the UN chart and while it might feel slightly glib to compare wealthy nations with warzones – why can’t those gloomy Afghans, languishing at 147th, cheer up? – the wider world can’t get enough of those Danish feelgood vibes. This, after all, is the land that gave us hygge , a hard-to-define word translating roughly as ‘cosiness’ – wellness candles, fresh pastries and nights in by the fire.

Many Danes have clearly decided that hygge is not quite compatible with open borders and multi-culturalism

Recently, however, the Danish criteria for national happiness has shifted somewhat – and it doesn’t involve baked apples or alpaca jumpers. In the last ten

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