Sweden
Turning a blind eye to the migration problem
Those with power and public influence are reluctant to confront anything but symptoms
On blasphemy and bullets
Murder is a lot worse than insulting religious beliefs
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
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?
A moral panic about moral panics?
We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers
The soul of Swedes
On the contested state of Swedish cultural identity
Why is the United States making concessions to Turkey?
The US should re-evaluate its interests in Europe
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust