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Imagine the scene.  A 1500-seat stadium appears on Horseguards Parade, as if dropped from a visiting spaceship.  Men in grey suits, lately disgorged... read more

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Farewells fall into that category of human experiences that seem, somehow, both inevitable and unimaginable.  So it is with some surprise that I find... read more

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When I was a small child, my grandmother was wont to say that, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.  It was a favourite idiom of hers and one... read more

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There’s an interesting debate going on right now about what seems to me to be a very modern problem.  Namely how we get the balance right between... read more

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The countdown continues.  And as it does, we reach another Olympic milestone.  But not just any other milestone.  On 17 April it will be 500 days... read more

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There’s a lot of talk in the world I inhabit about how to stimulate economic growth.  This might seem a bit strange in Sweden, given the turbo-charged... read more

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Given everything else going on in the world it was never likely to feature widely in the world’s press.  But quietly, quietly, Britain’s Olympic build... read more

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Guest blogger: Mette Kahlin, Political Attaché in Stockholm Today is International Women's Day. The day was first marked in 1911. Men and women attended... read more

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I wonder whether, like me, you’ve watched the dramatic events in the Middle East and North Africa with astonishment and awe.  And, perhaps, with humility.... read more

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It has perhaps become commonplace to say that the world is becoming more and more connected. That we live in a global village. That we all depend on each... read more

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And so… the first ever UK Nordic Baltic Summit duly took place – without the intervention of Vikings and longboats, as my previous blogs predicted - on 20... read more

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Those of you that saw my blog from Monday will know that David Cameron will today shake hands with the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the eight Nordic and... read more

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Those of you that are avid readers of the FT may have spotted James Crabtree’s piece today announcing a forthcoming “Viking invasion” of Downing Street. ... read more

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Have you read a piece of sharply-worded criticism directed at a politician in the paper lately? Did you worry that the journalist writing it was risking his/her... read more

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To be honest, it’s bone-numbingly cold in Stockholm just now.  So it was quite a relief to step (well, in fact, skate, and in a very nearly equally... read more

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Andrew Mitchell has until recently been Ambassador in Stockholm, from where he blogged as Our Man in Sweden. Andrew has since returned to the UK and is now looking after the Foreign Office’s part of the London 2012 Olympic (and Paralympic) Games. Join Andrew over the next twelve months as he shares the inside track on how the Foreign Office gets ready for the world’s biggest event

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