Sideways rain

Moving to Gothenburg in 2023, sideways rain was perhaps not what I was looking forward to most. Still, during today's harbour run, the maritime magic won out over the awfulness of the weather, as the presence of the western sea reminded me of last year’s sailing aboard the Queen Mary 2.

As for those doing the full transatlantic crossing, The Guardian reports that a mischievous fox apparently sneaked aboard a cargo ship in Southampton and travelled all the way to New York before ending up at the Bronx Zoo, which obviously leaves me tempted to do the same one day. For now, though, I better stick with Lufthansa, as I have to be back for teaching Swedish politics, which today comes with the tragic conclusion of the Liberal Party’s death dance with the Sweden Democrats.

Despite the fact that 74 percent of her own voters are against inviting the Sweden Democrats into government, Simona Mohamsson did just that, like some latter-day Paul von Hindenburg. Having been awarded the Bertil Ohlin Prize and repeatedly received funding from the Karl Staaff Foundation, I am profoundly saddened by this development and the lack of moral fibre it represents.