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
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The original blog: commentary about everything except transport
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
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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
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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
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http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2488693 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
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http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2487027 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
Continue readingThe 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,
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Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part II
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Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part I
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http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2463145 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
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http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2462987 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.
Continue readinghttp://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2462895 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
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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
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