Sunday, September 24, 2006

 

Topalov is toppled!

The fight for the World Championship in Chess is on! And the reigning FIDE World Champion Topalov is facing a tough start, going 0-2 versus Vladimir Kramnik - the competing chess world champion. (Yes, the world has currently two world champions due to an old clash in the FIDE organisation.)
You can follow the games in PGN format here (official site) and here (commented).

 

A critical approach to the Swedish elections

The international media has in its usual state over-hyped the outcome of the Swedish elections. The result - where social democrats where thrown out of office by the non-socialist alliance, is described as a cataclysmic event in in Swedish politics. Not so, says Per Bylund in his personal post where he tears open the ideological combination of the newly elected parties from a political theory perspective.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

 

News about me

My recent op-ed in Dagens Nyheter sparked some interest among bloggers in Sweden. HAX and Oskorei weighed in with their views.

And to top it off... a nice little post about a cuddly bear called Bamse and my views on his political ideals.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

 

Why negative campaigns are good for democracy

I have an op-ed in today's edition of Dagens Nyheter.

The article can be found here.

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