This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text. It is indeed a capricious time in which one cannot know where what we call order will lead. It may not have always been so tidy, but we got used to it. So with a messy exterior, you have to turn inward to ensure stability. It may feel unusual because normally it’s the other way around: when it’s in your head, the outside world is usually comforting with its solid existence. A tree with a strong trunk and a high crown to lean on. Instead,…
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Imagine skiing the Vasaloppet for nine miles. You’ve been training for a long time and fighting on the spot with everything you need to get to the finish until you reach a control. There you are stopped by a rope pulled over the tracks – you are forced to stop and get into the famous “brake bus”. This is the reality for a large proportion of skiers in Vasaloppet every year. Last year, 12 percent had to cancel the classic ski race because they couldn’t reach the rope time. – We have repeat times primarily for safety reasons. “We as…
Ask the finance committee Ask: Hello! I had a partner for four years. During this time we had two accounts. One that we used for rent, food, gas, insurance, and the like. We deposited our earnings directly into the other account and then transferred them to the other account. Over time, more and more money remained in the account into which the salaries were paid. Since I had a significantly higher income, most of the money I saved came from me. My partner said that if we went our separate ways, I would have a larger share of that money.…
Six years ago, Chinese director Chloé Zhao made her breakthrough with “Nomadland,” which won the Oscar for best film, best director and best female lead (Frances McDormand). A low-key road movie about a wandering woman forced to take temporary odd jobs alongside other poor retirees in the American West. The “port” moves in completely different environments. Here we follow young Latin teacher William “Will” Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) as he shuttles back and forth between his growing family in the English countryside and plague-stricken London. In Hamnet, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s book of the same name, William Shakespeare explores his…
The acclaimed miniseries Adolescence became a global phenomenon after premiering just over a year ago. The heartbreaking drama about a 13-year-old arrested on suspicion of murdering a girl his age has sparked a debate about social media, online culture, radicalization, toxic masculinity, incel culture, online hate and the adult world’s ignorance of young people’s online lives – and was even debated in the British Parliament. Now the series will be available to Swedish schools via Filmriket Play. With the support of the teacher advisory service from the children’s rights organization Friends, “Adolescence” is intended to serve as a tool for…
Developments in the real estate market have been mixed since the inflation and interest rate increases in 2022 and have since recovered. On the one hand, there are condos in central Stockholm that are now selling at new record levels, and on the other hand, there are areas where prices have still not recovered since 2021. Statistics from the housing platform Hemnet show that it is primarily the most expensive apartments that have recovered since the price peak and have increased in price, while the cheapest ones are still significantly lower in price. As a result, the differences between the…
The conflict over South Africa’s participation in the Venice Art Biennale gained momentum in January. Then Culture Minister Gayton Mckenzie announced he had withdrawn the invitation for artist Gabrielle Goliath to exhibit at the country’s pavilion. Several international media have reported on this. The decision prompted the selection committee behind Goliath’s selection to accuse the minister of censorship.That’s what Gabrielle Goliath thinks The reason for the culture minister’s action is that her performance work “Elegy” contains allusions to the Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza in 2023. According to Artnews, Gayton…
The Ukrainian Paralympics squad announced in a written statement last week that the country’s athletes will boycott the opening of the Games in Verona on March 6 and that it does not want the Ukrainian flag to appear during the opening ceremony. Even political representatives in Ukraine have announced that they will boycott the inauguration. This is a protest against allowing Russian athletes to compete under their national flag. The Czech Republic and Latvia have also announced that they will not take part in the inauguration. “We will not take part in the opening ceremony in any way,” the Czech…
“I’m extremely proud of this Swedish squad. It’s a good mix of experience where we’ve managed to keep everyone active from 2022, and then we’ll have the privilege of adding four debutants,” says squad manager Niclas Grön in a press release. The 25-year-old sit skier Elijah Primak, who won two FIS competitions after the turn of the year, will make his Paralympic debut in Italy. – Elijah’s need to constantly evolve is what brought him here. “It’s very difficult to get through the bottleneck to get to the Paralympics, and Elijah really deserves this place,” says Grön. Primak was able…
One of Sweden’s biggest music exports, which has also been nominated in six categories at the upcoming Swedish Grammy Awards, is in the doldrums. Tobias Forge reveals it’s time to put Ghost on hold after the band’s world tour wrapped up in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Forge needs to spend more time with his family, he says in the podcast “Full Metal Jackie,” writes NME. Forge has a wife and two teenage children at home who have been secondary for many years. – Believe me, I have a guilty conscience. Tobias Forge did it too a number of other…
This weekend saw the British Bafta Awards, described as the British equivalent of the Oscars. When the “Sinners” actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented an award, the N-word could be heard shouting, among other things, in the audience. Jordan and Lindo paused in their speech and then continued to introduce the nominees. The man who screamed is John Davidson, a man with Tourette’s syndrome who was at the gala showing the film “I Swear.” The film is a biographical account of his life and experiences with Tourette’s. He is played by Robert Aramayo, who won Best Actor for…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. Impersonal communication is nothing new. Jean Cocteau became interested in the phenomenon in his 1930 theater monologue “Vox humana” about actors and telephones. In the musical version by the French composer Francis Poulenc in 1958, the piece became “La voix humaine” (The Human Voice), which has acquired new relevance in recent years. The solo opera is about a woman who says goodbye to her lover on the phone. He is going to marry someone else, she has broken down and gradually reveals that…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. The ennobling influence of winter sports on people quickly disappeared after the Olympic Games. More specifically, a few minutes after the USA beat Canada in the men’s ice hockey final. Then Donald Trump called directly into the gold medalists’ locker room. His home place, as you know – Conversation in the locker room. The conversation took place documented dilettante FBI Director Kash Patel’s cell phone, which the president used to congratulate the team and invite them to the evening’s State of the Union…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. novel Niels Fredrik Dahl “On the way to a friend” Trans. Urban Andersson Nature & Culture, 207 pages A screaming elephant lies like a gray pile of mud on one of the exits from Oslo in July 2001. Photographer Joel Sternfeld is on site and can take the photo of a lifetime of the unlikely and poignant situation. But there is also an ego that describes the picture and already knows a lot about how the elephant comes to be there. It’s time for me to…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. Exhibition Ebba Matz: “Journey” Brother Hjorth’s house, Uppsala. Shown until March 15th Space is really useless. Mostly empty space, just a few degrees above absolute zero. The images of space are another matter. From six-thousand-year-old Sumerian star maps to the science fiction illustrations of Chris Foss, it is as if the immeasurable dimensions sharpen the ability to create. Ebba Matz can also be placed somewhere between these reference points. Her “journey” can now be seen in the slightly curved room in Bror Hjorth’s house in Uppsala.…
Album of the Year: Anna von Hausswolff: “Iconoclasts”, Ghost: “Skeletá”, Lisa Nilsson: “Uteblivna vi”, Veronica Maggio: “Sciura”, Viagra Boys: “Viagr aboys”. Artist of the Year: Ghost, Hov1, Viagra Boys, Yung Lean, Zara Larsson. Composer of the Year: Elvira Anderfjärd: Addison Rae: “Addison”, Kerstin Ljungström: annual production, Ludwig Göransson: “Sinners”, Tobias Forge, Max Grahn, Vincent Pontare, Salem Al-Fakir: Ghost: “Skeletá”. Pop of the year: Daniela Rathana: “Where strippers die”, Miriam Bryant: “Okay to die”, Molly Sandén: “Strawberry blonde & blue-eyed”, Veronica Maggio: “Sciura”, Zara Larsson: “Midnight sun”. Song of the Year: “Just take a sauna” with KAJ, “Lys på mig” with…
This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text. Actually, I’ve been coming here for a long time. Sometime in the mid-1990s, my wife and I were in Andalusia, and in an old-fashioned men’s clothing store in a small town I bought a gray striped hat for an old man. I must have been around thirty and such a wallet was completely foreign to me until then. But then and there I thought, man, why not? I also liked the cap. But something, perhaps just curiosity, soon caused me to break the thread that…
Otherwise, the year 2026 started well for Swedish ice hockey. The JVM gold on the men’s side sparked smiles and instilled confidence in the future. After being eliminated from the Olympic Games in Milan in the quarter-finals, these feelings have cooled down. Not because it would be a shame to lose a quarterfinal to the USA in overtime, but because the mark left by the Swedish national team is so invisible that you can’t even see it in the snowy Italian mountains. If there was loud discussion and criticism after the defeat in the group stage against Finland – which…
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has created a place where he speaks to people. It’s called “Call the Prime Minister”. For everyone over fifty: So it’s a podcast – with pictures. Call 08-503 54 000 or email hej@ringstatsministern.se. Of course, I immediately called to talk about NATO, nuclear weapons, sports, literature, film, but was quickly disappointed. It wasn’t even busy, there was an answering machine – if you have an interesting or relevant question, you can be called. Some of the callers may also be seen in the picture. It’s grown big attention in the media. A prime minister who talks…
According to history books, the ability to express oneself in writing first emerged about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (roughly present-day Iraq). As we humans settled down, began cultivating the land, and began trading with one another and collecting taxes, a system was needed to keep records of supplies of grain and other goods in order. The solution consisted of a series of crumbs, painstakingly flattened with a sharp stick onto clay tablets, various types of characters from which the first written language eventually developed. But after analyzing more than 260 objects from the Paleolithic period, mostly from the Swabian…