Stray Tabby
I'm straying from Japanese politics. This might well be a long term choice. I'll have to review the general theme of my blog soon.
We won in Finland. The setup of the forthcoming government is still shrowded in mystery, but we won.
I held an election party last night. The invited were just me and the internet community; it was that exclusive. For some reason Nordic politics doesn't spark a fire in my local friends. Why that would be the case I can't understand. We're forerunners in a lot of EU policies: surely that on its own would make us attractive to the British. Not only do we supply you with the doctrine of harmonization of social policy and taxation but also with the idea of liberal leggy blondes you can lust after. What's not to like?
Continuing on the topic of Nordic politics, the Swedish equivalent of the BBC (SVT) has just broadcasted the first instalment of a fascinating four part documentary series on the 10-year rule of former PM Göran Persson.
When Persson over ten years ago reluctantly and quite accidentally became the Swedish premier no-one thought he would hold on to power for quite as long as he did, nor that he would become such an autarchic leader of his party as he turned out to be.
Very early into Persson's premiership a political journalist at SVT, Erik Fichtelius, had the brighter than bright idea of making a documentary on a PM and his rule. Surprisingly, Persson agreed to Fichtelius' proposal and has given (in exchange for confidentiality) what now amounts to hundreds of informal interviews to Fichtelius over the past ten years. The deal was that the documentary would only be compiled and shown once Persson had left the premiership. This finally occurred last September when the right-of-centre 'Alliance' took over government.
Persson ceded his leadership of the party to Mona Sahlin just this past weekend.
Erik Fichtelius was a high-profile political commentator at SVT until news of his documentary about Persson leaked to the media at large. He was consequently demoted within SVT due to the pressure from other media, who claimed he had an unfair advantage being so close to the PM.
The first instalment of the documentary can be seen here (in Swedish, and no subs, I'm afraid)
We won in Finland. The setup of the forthcoming government is still shrowded in mystery, but we won.
I held an election party last night. The invited were just me and the internet community; it was that exclusive. For some reason Nordic politics doesn't spark a fire in my local friends. Why that would be the case I can't understand. We're forerunners in a lot of EU policies: surely that on its own would make us attractive to the British. Not only do we supply you with the doctrine of harmonization of social policy and taxation but also with the idea of liberal leggy blondes you can lust after. What's not to like?
Continuing on the topic of Nordic politics, the Swedish equivalent of the BBC (SVT) has just broadcasted the first instalment of a fascinating four part documentary series on the 10-year rule of former PM Göran Persson.
When Persson over ten years ago reluctantly and quite accidentally became the Swedish premier no-one thought he would hold on to power for quite as long as he did, nor that he would become such an autarchic leader of his party as he turned out to be.
Very early into Persson's premiership a political journalist at SVT, Erik Fichtelius, had the brighter than bright idea of making a documentary on a PM and his rule. Surprisingly, Persson agreed to Fichtelius' proposal and has given (in exchange for confidentiality) what now amounts to hundreds of informal interviews to Fichtelius over the past ten years. The deal was that the documentary would only be compiled and shown once Persson had left the premiership. This finally occurred last September when the right-of-centre 'Alliance' took over government.
Persson ceded his leadership of the party to Mona Sahlin just this past weekend.
Erik Fichtelius was a high-profile political commentator at SVT until news of his documentary about Persson leaked to the media at large. He was consequently demoted within SVT due to the pressure from other media, who claimed he had an unfair advantage being so close to the PM.
The first instalment of the documentary can be seen here (in Swedish, and no subs, I'm afraid)
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