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Ice
Observations

Skiing in Åre, hence little blogging

I’m away from everything for a week, skiing in Åre in Jämtland in norther Sweden. It’s the first full week of leave I have taken for ages and it’s excellent to be able to get away for a while. The skiing conditions have been close to perfect and I’ve now […]

Erik Boman
Observations

Lim-Erik and his Babblande son

I’ve known Erik Boman, the political secretary of the Solna Social Democrats, for a while know. He was at the Congress party last night, promoting the blog written by his 11 year old son Gustaf – entitled Babblande Boman. Erik himself writes a blog mostly comprising limericks (Lim-Erik – get […]

EU Politics

Jytte Guteland – positive mood of the Congress

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 […]

EU Politics

Persson: thank you, thank you, eugh, thank you

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, […]

EU Politics

PES Stockholm

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 […]

EU Politics

Johanna Graf, Congress Blogger

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 […]

Bloggare
Technology

Up and running

It’s taken longer than I would have thought, but I’m now online at the Congress. Seems the technology is far from perfect at the 1960s conference centre. The first few videos will be online very soon. My fellow bloggers here are Helena Markstedt, Jonas Morian, Ã…sa Westlund and Johanna Graf, […]