The Almost Nearly Perfect People – The Truth About the Nordic Miracle (Jonathan Cape), by Michael Booth, is published on 6 February. It will be BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 10 February.
I advise you to take that link with a hefty fist of salt. It's not a news piece, it's a commercial column for the article author's new book. He's just throwing out extreme statements like Swe being a one party state as sound bites. The few claims he actually does provide sources to are uncontroversial.
Oh, and you'll never get a fair appraisal of a Scandinavian country by asking the citizen of another Scandinavian country. The internal competition/rivalries are somewhat fierce.
I advise you to take that link with a hefty fist of salt. It's not a news piece, it's a commercial column for the article author's new book. He's just throwing out extreme statements like Swe being a one party state as sound bites. The few claims he actually does provide sources to are uncontroversial.
Oh, and you'll never get a fair appraisal of a Scandinavian country by asking the citizen of another Scandinavian country. The internal competition/rivalries are somewhat fierce.