The shame of living in a monarchy

People have a variety of opinions of Nicolas Sarkozy, and I am not one of his supporters. The fuzz in the media about his wedding with Carla Bruní were stupid and annoying, but if you don't like Sarkozy, his marriage is hardly your business. If you live in Sweden, things are more complicated.

The thing is that up here we live with an antiquated institution called monarchy. Our

Bookblogging - This is Serbia calling

How would you write the perfect book? Start with an ever interesting topic - Yugoslavia at war with itself. Continue with finding an unique angle to describe it, and then do that in a way that keeps readers spellbound throughout 278 pages.

That is exactly what Matthew Collin does in the book This is Serbia calling where he tells the story of B92 - the Belgrade underground radio station that became the center

Free schools - a way to make the family matter more than the individual?

This is the third post discussing a trend I see in the Swedish education system, a trend to use public institutions to shield middle class Swedish citizens from foreign or native competition. In the first post I discussed the decision to charge non-EU students with tuition fees. In the second post I examined the new system of merit points, who unintentionally(?) discriminate foreign students. In this post I take a look at the primary school system, that probably never before in Swedish history has been so segregated as it is today.

If we follow the Swedish educational madness down to the earlier school years, the raison'd'etré