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
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Göran Persson, picking over his legacy
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),
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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
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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
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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
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Jonas Morian – Social Democrats need to make better use of the internet
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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Maryam Yazdanfar – you need more than Thatcher and the Queen
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 readingPersson: 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,
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Vilken är den typiska Sossefrissan för en kille?
Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part II
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Vilken är den typiska Sossefrissan för en tjej?
Johanna Graf’s Survey – Part I
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PES Stockholm
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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Younger members optimistic about Mona
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.
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