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Almqvists skräckfilm berättar inte hela historien

November 14, 2012by ourmaninstockholm 2 Comments

Som Londonbussar på bloggen just nu – inget på svenska på länge (om alls), sen kommer en massa grejer samtidigt. Enligt Twitter har Erik Almqvist, ledande politiker i Sverige Demokraterna, […]

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Swedish Life, Swedish Politics

Vänsterbredaren och vallmoblomman

November 10, 2012by ourmaninstockholm 2 Comments

Sankt Patrick försökte förklara den katolska guden för irländarna genom att  använda treklövern. Med det lyckades han bra, och landet var nästan uteslutande katolik i bra många år, ändå tills […]

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Irish Life, Irish Politics

The best part of this campaign? The end of the Tea Party

November 6, 2012by ourmaninstockholm Leave a comment

They’re voting, and counting, ans exit-polling. On both sides of the Atlantic, the pundits and anchors are warming up for the long night ahead. Already there has been one winner, […]

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This should be the beginning, not the end

September 12, 2012by ourmaninstockholm Leave a comment

So Cameron’s legacy will be as “the Prime Minister who said sorry” but we’ve all asked ourselves and our children the question- what does sorry really mean? It won’t bring […]

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Sport

Life begins again as Breivik goes down

August 25, 2012by ourmaninstockholm Leave a comment

There is an expression in Norwegian that has always intrigued me. It’s interjected into sentences, much the same way as Londoners use “innit” or Dubliners “you know what I mean.” […]

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A fight that will last more than three rounds

August 12, 2012by ourmaninstockholm 7 Comments

It was the stark, casual, easy laziness of our return to racism that was so disappointing, and yet so predictable. Moments before, John Joe Nevin had fought himself to  a […]

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Irish Life, Irish Politics

Sindo’s journalists avoid questions and blame the bullies instead

August 5, 2012by ourmaninstockholm 1 Comment

I once didn’t take some pictures that would have earned thousands of euros in a heartbeat. AIK had played Levski Sofia in a Europa league qualifier, and as I left […]

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