So what should we do when Trump decides to boost import duties on French champagne and cognac by a cool 200 percent? Celebrate! Because then we can finally have the wonderful French champagne, around ten percent of which has been going to the United States, all to ourselves. We no longer must ship it laboriously […]
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. På 60- och 70-talen hade vi den geniale Tage Danielsson. Claes Eriksson är den ende av dagens entertainers som kan mäta sig med honom.
With four of our kids (the youngest, Linnea, wasn’t yet born) in Florence, twenty-five years ago. One of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever lived in (yours truly studied Italian there back in 1987).
The year 2018 was — just like most years — a year of both joy and sorrow. For me, however, the year will always be primarily associated with being the year my dearest friend of over thirty years — Bengt Nilsson — passed away. No words can truly describe what one feels when a person […]
Dans le domaine scientifique, le courage consiste à suivre la devise des Lumières et la maxime de Kant : Sapere Aude! Ose penser par toi-même, utiliser ta propre intelligence, avoir le courage de remettre en question ‘l’opinion reçue’, l’autorité ou l’orthodoxie. Dans notre vie quotidienne, le courage est la capacité d’affronter la peur, comme lorsque, […]
Yesterday, one of my favourite composers — Arvo Pärt — turned 90. So, of course, my youngest daughter and I honoured the occasion by visiting the Concert Hall in Malmö Live to listen to his Fourth Symphony.