Author Archives: Ernst

In the climate debate the question from where to get sufficient amounts of non-polluting energy for our future energy needs is certainly an important point. After all, the city in which we live is still burning ship loads of coal … Continue reading →

In HBL’s Christmas edition (of 24.12.) there was on the DEBATT pages 12 and 13 a piece by one Samuel Sjövall (titled “I trygga sannfinländska händer”) plus an I DAG column by Nicolas von Kraemer (in which he was in … Continue reading →

In the debatt page of HBL there appeared on To 5.12. an I DAG column by the very appreciable Fritjof Sahlström. It was titled “Värst i världen på utanförskap?” and it referred to a Pisa result according to which “det … Continue reading →

On the debatt page of HBL of Sö 8.12. there were 3 pieces from Christians who rejected the Extreme Right’s tendencies to pose as defenders of Christianity. Two of the pieces referred to an article by Nora Hämäläinen which was … Continue reading →

In the last issue of Ny Tid there was a recension titled “Är Trump postmodern? Nej!”. It is a text which had also appeared in very similar form some time earlier in one Sunday edition of HBL. Already then I … Continue reading →

In HBL of Fre 26.07. there was an insändare in which Nicolas von Kraemer gave his impression that the freedom to express one’s opinions freely is in our society more and more constricted by demands to be “korrekt och finkänslig”, … Continue reading →

The last issue of Ny Tid had as its main topic “Vänstern & Kyrkan”, and indeed it included quite a number of contributions to this topic. But I find that what I am going to write does not fit as … Continue reading →

On 18.06.19 HBL had on p.6 a report about the ongoing conference in Gullranda, where this year Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Bundespräsident of Germany, is a guest of honour. As an important incident, HBL reported this: “Inför en samlad publik ställde … Continue reading →

In HBL of 8.06.2019 there was a long article titled “Utländska krafter lobbar mot abort i Europa”. The article points to a rather secretive but well-financed and widely-connected organization which is trying not only to make abortions illegal in Europe … Continue reading →

The term “Sitzarsch” is a German word and it refers to some people’s talent to sit for unlimited amounts of time in some, e.g., negotiations. And the idea to write about this came to my mind when seeing a few … Continue reading →