Anyone who grew up in the 1970s will remember post-war Europe, where a third of Germany was behind the communist Iron Curtain, along with Poland, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, partly Yugoslavia, Albania and, of course, Russia. But the countries of the West also faced political challenges. Spain and Portugal were dictatorships, Greece was ruled by a military   …  

There is a lot of strange ambiguity in the world, a whole portfolio of opinions whose veracity is questionable; let’s start with some examples: Whatever we think of Donald Trump’s personality, he seems to be working for the good of the United States and his policy proposals are likely to get the country back on its feet. During his last   …  

There are many signs that we live in an increasingly conservative society. One example, which I mentioned in another article, is the requirement to be addressed correctly. So-called ‘misgendering’ is considered a major offence in some circles, if you call someone ‘he’ when they perceive themselves as a ‘she’ or ‘they’. In the past, in our more conservative societies, titles   …  

Actually, wouldn’t it be better if Kamala Harris won? So she can continue to dismantle the American economy, and keep the Russians and Chinese busy, while we Europeans reform and build an empire? Well, she is hardly a given candidate. Perhaps her pal’s perpetual war is rubbing off on us too? And there will be American hawks who think they   …  

The classic nation state is about ‘one people and one country’. It often talks about linguistic and cultural unity, but there are also aspects of ethnicity and religion. For example, Sweden is the country of the Swedes, a people with a specific ethnicity and language. In this case, it is also a Protestant religious affiliation, which has now been diluted.   …  

It was the third time my bike was stolen, and a few days later it appeared online, for sale. Maybe it was even the same thief as last time? I was so tired of society developing in this direction, not being allowed to have your things in peace, feeling unsafe, and having to walk with your head bowed in a   …  

There is a common thread running from Woody Allen’s neurotic and slightly confused film character to the multi-diagnosed activist Greta Thunberg. These are people who are in therapy and have all sorts of mental conditions, and they are not ashamed of them, but rather publicise them. In addition, we have countless celebrities who come out and talk about their problems,   …  

The EU is a bureaucratic regime, an elite project that does not serve the interests of the people, but rather irritates them with a mass of meaningless laws and regulations. Democracy is also a mess; anyone who explains how Ursula von der Leyen was elected EU president will have to answer a series of difficult questions. Let’s face it, this   …  

Today’s political craft is all about doing things wrong. Everyone knows how to make a society work with law, order, reasonable taxes, etc. But, no, you should do everything the other way around. It becomes like a pretend game, which no one really believes in but is forced to play along with. Here are some examples: Lighter sentences for serious   …  

When it was socially beneficial for people to be “norm critical and progressive etc”, society stopped being successful and capable of development. This contemporary mentality is very different from previous mindsets, which helped Sweden develop into one of the most successful countries in the world. Today, it is almost incomprehensible that Swedes contributed to the discovery of 19 elements in   …  

There has long been talk in academic circles about the possible culpability of the British in the Second World War, that the war became more brutal when British planes started terror-bombing cities in Germany. And this was at the beginning of the war, before all the horrors we know today were unleashed. The British had very few resources in 1940,   …