To cast a vote – a rollercoaster of enfranchisement
Ever since I left the UK my status as a voter has swung wildly between disenfranchised and enfranchised. This year I had a vote … I thought.
politics
Lsd – a piffiling proposal for Boris de Piffle
An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!
Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love
A review of Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen and some observations on the political situation in Britain at the time of writing.
Taking a selfie with Gudrun Schyman
Gudrun Schyman was leafletting for Fi, all alone, at the Hjalmar transport hub on Thursday – normal political practice and true democratic behaviour.
Blethering on – Scots influence on current English
Blethering on about new old words – Scots dialect words that the English seem to delight in using in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum.
Neanderthal … or otherwise?
The killing of Osama bin Ladin by US special forces in Pakistan was NOT the action of Neanderthals!
Det här är Håkan Juholt!
Collage of Swedish election posters. Newly selected Social Democrat leader Juholt over former Centre Party leader Daléus.
A Short, Inaccurate History of Statism
A tendentious history of (mostly Western) politics since the French Revolution in a series of twitter-length bites.
Old Uncle Sam, his Wikileaks
Comic poem that references current events and the masses of classified US documents recently leaked through Wikileaks.
A Letter from Sweden
This is my second voice recording in the series “Letters from Northern Lands”. This episode visits Swedish Midsummer, the recent Royal Wedding in Stockholm and the way the Swedish media has reported it, and considers whether Sweden is a monarchy or really a closet republic.