….but not in the UK. They’re using antique rolling stock to clear global warming off of the tracks over in southern Sweden: The trains, old DA locomotives normally resident in the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle in northern Sweden, have been dusted off and put back into service to clear […]

If this was a Daily Mail story they’d have got benefit scrounging asylum seeking witch into the headline somehow. But it doesn’t hail from these shores – it is a Swedish story of stupidity. A Stockholm woman who approached a psychic medium for help to free her from the evil which […]

In Sweden rather than here, but maybe the idea will catch on…. A special police unit in Stockholm combating share scams was closed last week by the chief safety ombudsman due to a large influx of cases.Four Stockholm county police officers are working on five large investigations involving nearly 2,000 […]

In random news today a Stockholm motorist has been refused the number plate of his dreams after being told FCKU2MF is too offensive. The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) group said the request was rejected as guidelines say that car plates should not be formed in a way that could cause […]

In a survey which would have done that most excellent lover of all things gnosiological The Croydonian proud (now renamed The Chiwickite), we learn that the University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU) has done a study of what people are afraid of in the woods.At the same time as […]

…well, in Sweden at least. A court in Malmö in southern Sweden has ruled that traffic wardens must be prepared to take abuse as part of their daily work. Although the court handed down a fine and a suspended sentence to a man convicted for assaulting a female traffic warden […]

Technically true, although Facebook users would disagree and claim that they were duped. A Swedish Facebook group originally promised it would send three kronor (£0.26p/$0.42) to organizations involved in heart research for every member that joined. Membership in the group grew exponentially, quickly climbing into the tens of thousands. But when […]

TheEye received an email from reader Arthur recently who is British but fluent in Swedish. Remembering fondly the days of romancing a young lady from Sweden, TheEye has decided that this blog should impart a basic level of competency in the language to readers, and so please try this not-safe-for-work […]

A once moderate Muslim who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists. According to Mohamed Omar, a 34-year-old author and commentator born in Uppsala in eastern Sweden, he is prepared to welcome all political stripes into […]

The Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has come down in favour of church weddings for homosexuals in a vote held on Thursday morning. Full article in TheLocal. The decision, which is based on a proposal from the church’s governing board, means that the Church of Sweden will conduct […]