
How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe
Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.
Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.
People are not unaware of climate change, Lisa Pelling writes. But they find it difficult to imagine the green transition.
The climate transition must benefit local communities, Lisa Pelling writes, if it is not to exhaust their patience.
Inequality and the climate crisis go hand in hand, Lisa Pelling writes. So do the alternatives.
A government beholden to the radical right, Lisa Pelling writes, is a warning to Europe the green transition can go into reverse.
The pandemic put care workers under terrible pressure, Lisa Pelling writes. Yet unions have been able to win greater recognition for them.
Social democrats, Lisa Pelling writes, should abandon the idea of meritocracy if they are to reconnect with les classes populaires.
Lisa Pelling’s parents moved to Nicaragua to support the revolution. Its leader, she writes, has turned it into a tyranny.
The new Swedish government, Lisa Pelling writes, is obsessed with stigmatising immigrants and refugees.
Mainstream politicians, Lisa Pelling writes, must recognise that their words have consequences.
Lisa Pelling explains how ‘freedom of choice’ has wrought a vicious circle of inequality and underperformance.
Lisa Pelling begins a new Social Europe column with lessons for integration—especially from Sweden.
Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
The Swedish social-democrat leader, shortly to step down, didn’t buckle under pressure despite a slender parliamentary hold.
Most commentary on the Covid-19 death toll in Sweden has been on the absence of lockdown, yet privatisation and precarity in eldercare should really be in the spotlight.