Tag Archives: Sweden

Five years on from Covid we should bury lockdowns, not praise them

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Alex Grant

Modern Britain is full of anniversaries (many say it is too full). Few anniversaries are as grim as the fifth anniversary of the first Covid lockdown, memorably announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on live TV on March 23rd 2020, … Continue reading →

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Don’t believe what Donald Trump says about Sweden. Immigration works well there

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Alex Grant

In the third and final part of a series of posts about modern Sweden (parts one and two can be read here and here), I look at immigration, and the crime problems that many neo-cons claim it has caused. The … Continue reading →

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Sweden, a land where consumer has never been king

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Alex Grant

In the second part of a three-part series of posts about modern Sweden (the first part can be read here), I look at Sweden’s weather, its inhabitants’ supposed shyness, and how Swedish consumers fare when it comes to buying alcohol … Continue reading →

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Sweden: how a ‘dull country’ is still worth living in

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Alex Grant

In the first of a three-part series about modern Sweden, I look at what twentieth and twenty-first century writers have to say, and how the reality of life in Sweden compares to the euphoria or opprobrium that it often provokes. “I … Continue reading →

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