Current Affairs
Yesterday's 'attempted coup' against Blair was pretty dramatic. Luckily, Tom Watson, the junior minister who resigned, has a blog where we can read not only his resignation letter but also some of the reactions it sparked (the comment section here is a must-read if you'
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A reporter has been suspended from Swedish tabloid Expressen after it was revealed that a Liberal Party activist who obtained access to the governing party's computer network had passed the log-in information on to him. This gave political reporter Niklas Svensson ample opportunity to study the Social Democrats&
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Of course the story about the young Liberal Party (FP) activists obtaining access to the computer network of Sweden's governing party on their own, without passing on information and with no benefits to the party, was a bit too implausible. Late last night Johan Jakobsson, FP's
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The headline "Sweden's Watergate" was smeared all over Aftonbladet's frontpage 11 May 1976, four months before the election, after someone had broken into the government's offices. Now history repeats itself, but with a modern slant: why bother to go to all the
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At least that's what Sweden's Social Democrats must be hoping. Calling a press conference at 23:30 Sunday evening is pretty unheard of, but then the news that the party were about to sue The Liberal Party (FP) for spying on their campaign by obtaining access
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The tsunami that devastated Thailand 26 December 2004 has claimed another victim. This time in faraway Sweden. Where was Prime Minister Persson's closest aide, undersecretary Lars Danielsson, when the news of the tsunami broke? This has been one of the biggest political issues in Sweden for months. Before
Blogging
Millionaire author Jeffrey Archer has a blog! The disgraced UK Conservative politcian, who served time for prejury and obstructing the course of justice during his 1987 libel trial with the Daily Star, blogs about art, cricket, writing books and other things here. I was gobsmacked to read the news via
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That's the big headline in Norway today. In the quarterly report they provide for the oil industry, Norwegian economic analysis company Econ asks 'what if the oil price stays as high as today'? They find that, given a $70 scenario, as much as 86,4 per
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As if Norway's largest company, Statoil, didn't run into enough problems in Iran, Norway's second largest company, Norwegian Hydro, has just land a big contract there. Let's for their sake hope it's not yet another of those elaborate buy-back schemes
Acquisitions
I thoroughly enjoyed this short flick about how financial services might look in the future (if you're interested in finance, the web and/ or the future you just have to watch this). Link via Adriana
Current Affairs
That is, the Norwegian state, according to an intriguing article in Aftenposten about how regional effectivisation has made life hard for the politicians. My favourite headline of the week, with the charming subtitle "Politicians want the control back". It sounds like the state has taken on a life
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Launch: "I am heartily sick and tired of the Prime Minister 'launching' a new 'initiative' (it is never anybody who 'launches' except the Prime Minister; cabinet ministers are left to pick up the pieces when it all goes very wrong). I would not