I was a little startled to read today that both the BBC and The Guardian were speculating that Gordom Brown becoming Prime Minister would mean the end of Peter Mandelson as European Commissioner for Trade. The Guardian even talks of ‘speculation in Brussels’ as being behind this. Mandelson has himself […]
I’m supposed to be on holiday, but I am after all spending a week in Åre with a very political bunch of people… So Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (today) have been devoted to the SVT television programme Ordförande Persson (Chairman Persson), a four part documentary (final part is Monday so I’ll […]
If you are a smug Moderate who thinks it’s remotely funny to criticise a Swede’s English and wants to link to this video, think again. It’s damned hard to conduct politics in a language other than your own, and you might like to read this about how it excludes people […]
Jonas Morian writes one of the best known Social Democrat blogs and he was one of the official congress bloggers too. I interviewed him about the use of the internet for politics. His line was that the Social Democrats were ahead of their time in using the internet a few […]
The next in the series of videos from the SAP Congress – Maryam Yazdanfar, member of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) speaks about how positive she is about Mona Sahlin’s election, and how British politics needs some more women than Thatcher and the Queen.
The Special SAP Congress was supposed to be about the future. Or at least that’s what I had been led to believe. Yet all that seems to have happened has been a drawn out series of thank-yous to Göran Persson, and him talking. First it was him in the morning, […]
Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part II
Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part I
The PES Congress started off the trend for me to be a Congress blogger. Now I’m at it again at the Social Democrats Congress in Stockholm, and Nils Woerner from the PES Activists is here too. I went to talk to him, Claes Nordmark and Jenny Jönsson at the PES […]
A few words from Daniel Mathiesen (Chair of SSU in Stockholms län) and Pezhman Fivrin (Board of SSU Stockholms län) about Mona and younger SSU members.
Johanna is one of my fellow bloggers at the Congress – her own blog is here. She want to give every delegate the chance to express themselves on her blog, even if they can’t speak on the podium of the Congress, and also to run a poll about Social Democrat […]
Sometimes strange things happen in party politics. This coming weekend will be one of those odd occasions. I am going to be one of the official bloggers at the party congress of the Socialdemokraterna (SAP) in Sweden. Why me? OK, I know plenty of people in the SAP (Helena, Maryam, […]
