Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th September, 2020) As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of people thronged the imposing entrance of the Bolshoi […]
Covid19 / Europe / Policy / Social care / Sweden
How Covid exposed the world’s lack of care
Published by UnHerd (14th August, 2020) Last week, I was in Sweden, investigating whether the nation’s strategy to avoid lockdown during a pandemic has been a success or […]
Economics / Europe / Sweden
Does going cashless let Big Brother monitor your money?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th July, 2019) Gustaf can remember the precise date when he last used cash. ‘It was October 7 last year,’ he told […]
Europe / Sweden
A moral superpower shifts right
Published by The i paper (10th September, 2018) A few years ago I spoke at a conference in Sweden, which took place in a rural venue at height […]
Europe / Sweden
Liberal Sweden flirts with the far-right
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th September, 2018) The far-Right leader threatening to shake up the socialist nirvana of Sweden and send shock waves around Europe in today’s […]
Politics
Boris on the burka was straight out of Bannon’s playbook
Published by The i paper (13th August, 2018) Put aside, even if just for a moment, the future of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He is a sad […]
Europe / Politics
A Minister for the Future might keep Britain on course
Published by The Independent (30th November, 2015) Sweden is far from a nirvana, but it remains an innovative nation when it comes to politics and the problems confronting […]
Health / Policy
NHS privatisation fears? Grow up
Published in The Guardian (December 21, 2012) Nearly one in five patients having hip replacements and hernia repairs are handled by private companies, thanks to reforms introduced by the […]