Find me on Facebook
Choose language and subscribe
Read posts in English only
English-only RSS feedLäs poster bara på svenska
Svenska RSS-flödet
Or click here for the RSS feed for all posts. Or you can...
-
If you enjoy reading my blog, you're welcome to subscribe by Flattr to make small regular payments, or leave a one-off tip.
-
This work by Niklas Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://niklassmith.wordpress.com/copyright/. Who’s reading this blog?
-
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Making sense of Lebanon’s “day of rage”
What a day. Consultations began yesterday at Lebanon’s presidential palace with MPs meeting President Michel Sleiman to nominate their preferred candidate for Prime Minister. (The national unity government created by the Doha Agreement had collapsed because Hezbollah and its allies … Continue reading
Review: Don Carlos, by Verdi, at the Gothenburg Opera
Don Carlos, opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed at the Gothenburg Opera, 22 January 2011. (Cast list below.) Last December the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Don Carlos made quite a splash in Sweden when it was broadcast to … Continue reading
Våra regeringar är delaktiga i Arabvärldens förtryck
Johan Norberg har skrivit en läsvärd kolumn i Metro. Han noterar att västvärldens regeringar har varit kluvna om demokrati i Arabvärlden: Det har inte direkt gjorts vågen i palats och regeringsbyggnader i västvärlden efter den folkliga revolten i Tunisien. USA … Continue reading
Posted in Politik, Svenska
Tagged Arabvärlden, johan norberg, mänskliga rättigheter, utrikespolitik
Leave a comment
Ever wondered what the Arabic papers are saying?
The Economist has a very interesting summary of what the Arabic papers are saying about the Tunisian revolution. They got the translations from Meedan, a not-for-profit company that aims to promote dialogue between English and Arabic-speakers through translating web content … Continue reading
My article for the Economist on the Robin Hood Tax
In April 2010 I applied for the Marjorie Deane internship at the finance and economics section of the Economist in London. As part of the application I was asked to write a 500-word article of the kind that could be … Continue reading
Socialist International expels Tunisian dictator’s party
Better late than never. But Carl Bildt’s awkward question remains: how could the RCD be allowed to become and stay a full member in the first place? It has imposed its police state on Tunisia for over 50 years. Between … Continue reading
Posted in English, Politics
Tagged arab spring, carl bildt, rcd, socialist international, tunisia
1 Comment
Touché to Carl Bildt
The Tunisia dictatorship party RCD is full member of Socialist International. How could that have been tolerated? Some explaining to do.— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) January 17, 2011 Sweden’s Foreign Minister (and avid Tweeter and blogger) tweets an embarrassing fact. International … Continue reading
Posted in English, Politics
Tagged arab spring, carl bildt, rcd, socialist international, tunisia
1 Comment
Letter to the FT: The MPC knows what it’s doing
Sir, There are some mistakes in Sir Michael Darrington’s letter urging for interest rates to be raised. Sir Michael writes that the MPC “has only one objective”: to keep inflation under 2 per cent. In fact, the Bank of England … Continue reading
The United States as you’ve never seen them before
…in the Economist’s daily chart. The interactive chart lets you find the nearest equivalent country in the world to each US state in GDP and population. Some interesting and surprising comparisons.
Svea Hovrätts snabbguide för att känna igen prostituerade
När vanliga människor tillfrågas vad det är som kännetecknar prostitution skulle de nog svara att man är prostituerad om man tar betalt för sex. Men domarna på Svea Hovrätt har nyligen hittat på ett bättre sätt att kategorisera kvinnor som … Continue reading
Posted in Lag och rätt, Svenska
Tagged feminism, magnus hedman, sexköpslagen, svea hovrätt
Leave a comment
