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A lone Black woman’s defiance of Swedish neo-Nazis, 10 years on

Protester Tess Asplund on the photo that made headlines, and why she sees it as a sign of the change in Sweden today

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30

Scotland’s independence movement must find an answer to this economic question

IF Scottish independence is to mean more than constitutional change, the movement must show how it would extend democracy into the economy itself

The National (Scotland) · May 18

The centre left is not dead. A progressive new counter-Trumpian movement is on the way

Social democrats are at last facing up to the failures of globalisation to create equality or deliver for workers, says Florian Ranft, of thinktank Das Progressive Zentrum

The Guardian - UK · May 4

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden: 50 years of banal royalism

The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 and the subsequent coronation of King Charles III eight months later, were international media events of historic proportions. People around the world observed, in close detail, how the UK’s royal institution consolidates its authority by using ritual to link to the…

The Conversation · Sep 1, 2023

What is Stockholm syndrome? It all started with a bank robbery 50 years ago

This week marks 50 years since a failed bank robbery that gave rise to Stockholm syndrome, a term used to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

‘Earth was really dying’: David Bowie and the birth of environmentalism

Coupled with its playful fascination for space technology, the Ziggy Stardust album also described a dread of the Pandora’s box that might be opened as a result of this progress, writes David Larsson Heidenblad

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022

David Bowie and the birth of environmentalism: 50 years on, how Ziggy Stardust and the first UN climate summit changed our vision of the future

David Bowie released his seminal album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 50 years ago, on June 16, 1972. It was an artsy and ambitious rock album which captured the time’s sense of being on the cusp of new technological and cultural frontiers.

The Conversation · May 23, 2022

Swedish Foreign Minister Criticizes 'Disinformation' about Kurdish PKK

Sweden's foreign minister on Friday hit out at "disinformation" about Sweden and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Turkey accused the Nordic country of giving support to the militant group, complicating NATO's enlargement. Turkey is threatening to block Sweden and Finland from becoming members of the alliance after they applied…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 20, 2022

Infamous bank robbery that gave Stockholm Syndrome its name to be new Netflix series

The show explores the biography of one of the two hostage takers - Swedish gangster Clark Oloffson and the robbery gave rise to the term 'Stockholm Syndrome' after the group fell for their captors

Daily Mirror · Apr 30, 2022