SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for people watching Borgen on BBC4. Don't read on if you haven't seen episodes nine and 10 of the second season – and if you've seen further in the series, please do not leave spoilers

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Could there have been a more satisfying ending to this season of Borgen? Birgitte, with her daughter on the mend, standing before parliament: triumphant in her reform plan, resounding in her dismissal of those who suggested her gender was holding Denmark back, and, thanks to Bent, smartly sidestepping Hesselboe's planned tax-cut ambush by calling an election early. No wonder she was doing her lovely nose-crinkle smile. For the greater part of this series, such a result seemed but a pipeBirgitte could do with a good girlfriend or two to support her – it's odd she doesn't have them surely? – but this was a decent substitute.

I was genuinely outraged by the arrival of paparazzi at Laura's hospital, which was rather conveniently placed in the middle of a public park, outside the jurisdiction of trespass laws. Even so, in the UK this would have been dealt with under the Editors' Code of Practice and while I'm not suggesting it is rigorously applied by all, I'm not convinced that such intrusion into the life of the prime minister's teenage daughter, who was suffering from anxiety – of all things – would have taken place on this scale. Birgitte's decision to send Laura to a private hospital while passing a