Håkan Boström
Håkan Boström is a leader writer for Göteborgs-Posten, Sweden’s third-largest newspaper
Sweden’s failed liberal project
Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and progressiveness now have the highest level of gun violence in Europe?
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success