Category: Sweden

R Day -1

June 22, 2016

I am glad I have been out of the country for the last week of this game of Russian roulette. Europe has, sensibly, been more exercised by the European Cup, a much more appropriate expression of international cooperation and competition, nationalism without nastiness. It has produced some great moments of theatre, much better than recent … More R Day -1

R Day -2

June 21, 2016

Yesterday I passed over the eponymous Bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo. No corpses or autistic cops spotted, but it still gave me a frisson as it’s not just an icon of Scandinavian cooperation, but of a new European culture. The one some would walk away from. That said, it was lucky my geographical sense remains in working … More R Day -2