#Swedish

Tareq Haddad

Tareq_Haddad

"Cancel culture" is political correctness 2.0 – a sad truth in all of this is that Julian Assange was among its first victims in the first wave. The left-leaning press

Johan Hellström 🇸🇪

jhnhellstrom

WARNING The preceding clip contained scenes of Sweden today and should not be viewed by sensitive people. Kids with brother in law and grandma so I toke my better half

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Latest update to Sweden: deaths by date-of-occurrence, ICUs & new cases:Looks like daily deaths in single figures (even allowing for later updates).Just 2 new ICU admissions in the last 7

James Medlock

jdcmedlock

Here’s a thread on ideological divisions within the Swedish Social Democrats in 1930s and the ideological basis of the Swedish welfare state. Screenshots taken from Just Institutions Matter (Rothstein, 1998)

Tristam Pratorius the Social Democrat🌹

TristamPratori1

1/9 Speaking of models, the most famous market socialist model (wage-earner funds) was proposed by the Swedish labor movement.Simply having a welfare state and a statist economic regime isn't social

James Felton

JimMFelton

For 15 years Sweden thought Russian submarines were invading its waters, but it turned out to be fish farts.(Thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/35q5m0v ) It's perfectly feasible that in the 1980s a

david oliver

mancunianmedic

@TiceRichard almost wilfully misrepresenting Swedish/WHO Covid approach on #bbcaq 1. Anders Tegnell - the Swedish Epidemiology Supremo has said that Herd Immunity approaches were "unscientific and unethical" and WHO made

Anders Åslund

anders_aslund

Contradictory reflections on Brexit:1. Good that the process is completed but that free trade remains.2. Sad to see the UK leave the EU.3. Brexit is a reflection of obsolete British

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

People have lockdown projects; here's mine. Characteristically low effort. I'll post a daily thread about an anecdote from #history that interests me. Except I don't commit to doing it daily.

Lisa 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

xLiserx

Do you know who doesn’t get to be bored of COVID? Healthcare workers who are swamped at work every single day, dressed like Michelin Men, watching people constantly die around

tarachara | local trap

taracharamod

denmark has the highest level of private debt in the world and a bigger per capita carbon footprint than the US.its income inequality has doubled over the past few years

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

The modal verb 'can' has changed a bit over the history of English.We see from its Old English ancestor, cunnan, that its meaning was once 'to know' rather than 'to

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

There is something quite remarkable about Sweden. They decided early on to adhere to established public health practices and refused to panic. They rationalized a viral threat and established a

Erik Vestin

erikvestin

Yesterday, I presented parts of my doctoral dissertation at @ClassesElites.I thought I should make a thread with some links and comments on the talk. First of all, the analysis that

Lonni Besançon

lonnibesancon

1. Sweden, the "model" country taken by so many. Time for an update on the situation including the terrible numbers and ICU-related news.A thread 2. First numbers. Usually I

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

SWEDEN: hospitalisations from Covid-19 are rising faster than in any other country in Europe, while in Stockholm — the centre for both the 1st & 2nd waves in the country

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