How Sweden fell again for transgender madness
Last week the Swedish parliament voted for a new law which makes it easier to change your legal gender
Paulina Neuding
Paulina Neuding is a Swedish journalist who writes for Svenska Dagbladet.
Monday
How Sweden fell again for transgender madness
When it comes to the transgender issue, Sweden sobered up earlier than many other countries. Paediatricians have pleaded with politicians to take into account the suffering of young people, especially girls misdiagnosed as trans In 2022, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare decided that children diagnosed with gender dysphoria must no longer be
Saturday
Sweden’s street gangs are gaining power
‘When the gangs rule the streets, they soon want to own the politics’
Wednesday
Sweden’s street gangs are gaining power
Stockholm Barely a day goes by in Stockholm without a shooting or a bombing. In one part of the city, housing estate residents have been informed about what to do if their building is a bombing target. For all too many Swedes, this is the new normal. Under Swedish law, children under 15 cannot be
Thursday
Sweden's new powerbrokers
The Scandinavian country now has perhaps the most successful anti-immigration, anti-establishment party on the continent
Wednesday
Sweden's new powerbrokers
Sweden may soon have a centre-right prime minister – an unusual turn of events for a country in which the Social Democrats have won 19 of the last 24 elections. Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate party, is now set to take power. ‘I am now starting the work of forming a new, effective government,’
Wednesday
Sweden is burning again
Sweden has seen streets riots before. The country has witnessed attacks on police and rescue workers. But what played out this Easter weekend has left Swedes in shock. Rasmus Paludan, a Danish politician on the extreme right who also holds Swedish citizenship, decided to tour the country last week, seeking out immigrant neighbourhoods where he could
Saturday
How gang warfare took over Sweden’s streets
Nils Grönberg was 19 years old when he was shot and killed: one bullet to his chest and one to his face. Images of his lifeless body lying on the ground in one of Stockholm’s more affluent neighbourhoods – the hyper-modern Hammarby Waterfront Residential Area – soon spread on social media. Many Swedes heard the
Saturday
Sweden’s gun crime epidemic is spiralling out of control
The shots were fired at 1pm on a Sunday, in spite of a heavy police presence at the scene. A 44-year-old shop owner was killed by a bullet to the head. The murder victim was a hard-working man who was trying to make a better life for his family. Now he is dead: another victim
Tuesday
Most-read 2020: Sweden’s new epidemic – clan-based crime
We’re closing 2020 by republishing our ten most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 10: Paulina Neuding on a Swedish crime wave. ‘We have an obvious problem,’ admitted the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven recently. He was referring not to the Covid pandemic, but to a summer of crime that has left even jaded Swedes reeling
Saturday
Spectator Out Loud: Paulina Neuding, Toby Young and Lloyd Evans
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On this week’s episode, Swedish journalist Paulina Neuding talks about Sweden’s crime surge; Toby Young on why he has given up on Boris; and Lloyd Evans on going to the theatre in the age of Covid.
Thursday
Where’s Boris? A government at sea
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From Covid to Brexit to even the culture wars, Boris’s performance seems to have been lacklustre. Where is the effervescent leader he was promised to be? (00:45) Sweden’s violent crime is spiking – and are politicians afraid to say why? (16:45) And on the other side of the world, why are the Japanese so much
Sweden’s new epidemic: clan-based crime
Stockholm ‘We have an obvious problem,’ admitted the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven recently. He was referring not to the Covid pandemic, but to a summer of crime that has left even jaded Swedes reeling in disbelief. There are regular bombings, hand grenade attacks and shootings. Young men are killing each other at a horrific
Wednesday
Coffee House Top 10: Bomb attacks are now a normal part of Swedish life
We’re closing 2019 by republishing our ten most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 7, Paulina Neuding’s piece from October, on bomb attacks in Sweden: One night last week, explosions took place in three different locations in and around Stockholm. There were no injuries this time, just the usual shattered windows, scattered debris and shocked people
Thursday
Bomb attacks are now a normal part of Swedish life
Stockholm Until recently no one would have thought of adding a column on bombings to the crime statistics One night last week, explosions took place in three different locations in and around Stockholm. There were no injuries this time, just the usual shattered windows, scattered debris and shocked people woken by the blast. The police
Friday
Victims of the Cologne sex attacks are still searching for justice
The mass sexual assaults around Cologne’s main railway station on New Year’s Eve 2015 rocked Germany, not just because of their scale (police believe hundreds of men were involved) but because of the sense that news of the attacks was being suppressed, and its links to the migrant crisis then at its peak, denied. In response
Saturday
Violent crime in Sweden is soaring. When will politicians act?
We’re closing 2018 by republishing our ten most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 3: Paulina Neuding on Sweden’s crime wave: January was a particularly violent month in Sweden. A 63-year-old man was killed in Stockholm by a hand grenade lying in the street. A Dutch exchange student was hit by a stray bullet during
Thursday
Living in fear
January was a particularly violent month in Sweden. A 63-year-old man was killed in Stockholm by a hand grenade lying in the street. A Dutch exchange student was hit by a stray bullet during an execution-style killing at a pizza restaurant in Uppsala. In Gothenburg, a hand grenade was thrown into a flat and exploded
Thursday
Sweden is divided in the wake of the Stockholm attack
Last Friday, only hours after the terrorist attack in central Stockholm, police found themselves pelted by rocks in the city’s largely immigrant Tensta neighbourhood. The following evening, officers were once again attacked, this time in Hammarkullen in Gothenburg. On Sunday, a familiar story: rioters aimed Molotov cocktails and a fire bomb at police as unrest broke out
