What can we learn about lockdowns from the country whose dictator told them to fight Covid by drinking vodka?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th September, 2020) As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of... Read Full Article
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Trust: the missing ingredient in our pandemic response
Published by The i paper (14th September, 2020) Boris Johnson hailed ‘a new dawn’ for Britain after winning an election... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
Pandemic lessons from other places
Published by The i paper (10th August, 2020) I have resumed my job as a foreign reporter following a four-month... Read Full Article
Sweden was pilloried by the whole world for refusing to lock down. But was it right?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th August, 2020) As she sat dangling her legs over the water while waiting... Read Full Article
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.... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article