Brexit

I grew up in the trenches of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war and have seen first-hand what it means to live in an ethnocracy, a place where democratic values and behaviors are non-existent. When I moved to Sweden as an adult and started learning about European and global democracy, I was reminded how Bosnia was the example...
“‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’” In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited...
What a year 2020 is turning out to be. Even if there had been no Covid-19, climate-related disasters such as the wildfires in the US and Australia, the melting ice caps and the destruction of the rain forests in Brazil and South East Asia (and as I write, the hurricane season is only just getting...