Children are not coded to blue for boys and pink for girls – they should be free to choose what they want to play with' In a huge Toys R Us warehouse on the Kungens Kurva retail estate in south-west Stockholm, cute and cuddly rubs shoulders with cool and crazy – closer in layout to the jumble of a child's bedroom than a normal store. In Sweden's largest toy store, play kitchens stand opposite train...
Former moderator of film piracy site who distributed 517 other films and TV shows ordered to pay record sum. By Samuel Gibbs Samuel Gibbs ...
s former deputy director of communications and marketing, is among the accusers in court – a Swedish couple who complained about poor service have also claimed to be the victims of Ikea's private detectives. The Swedish flatpack specialists appear to have overstepped the mark. Technologies of control over workers have expanded rapidly over the past couple of decades – but it should not be too surprising....
Swedish publisher Norstedts says new book in international bestselling crime thriller series will be out in August 2015 The Swedish publisher of the best-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy says it has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004 . Norstedts said on Tuesday that it had signed a contract with David Lagercrantz, ghost writer of I am...
magnet for prostitution' , 12 December). Activities related to prostitution, such as running a brothel, should be decriminalised so that women and men who work as prostitutes are not treated as criminals. But people who purchase sex should not be criminalised as long as they have sex with a consenting adult. If they have sex with a minor or someone who has been forced into prostitution through trafficking,...
s now-famous laws criminalising the purchase of sex. "It had enormous interest. People were laughing in 1999 at Sweden and saying it can't be done. A German police officer told me, 'You're crazy sweetie, you can't do that, you cannot prohibit men from buying sex, it's totally impossible.' But he said if you can reduce the amount of trafficking cases with your legislation I wish you good luck, because...
s groups and EU officials say government should make buying sex, not selling it, an offence The Netherlands: 'Paying for sex? It's strictly business' How prostitution is dealt with across Europe – map Britain risks becoming a magnet for prostitutes and sex buyers because its policies on sex work are increasingly out of step with those in the rest of Europe, according to MPs, women's groups and EU officials....
ll tell our kids when they're tucked up under the duvet and we've given into telling them, for the 47th time, about the long-bearded grandpa who won a 1,000-mile bicycle race. It involves the romanticism that tends to, after a time, become shrouded in myth. One person will say it was 1,000 miles he rode, and the next might say it was 1,000km. One might say he was 66 years old, when someone else heard...
s three boarding schools to be government-funded and open to all regardless of finances Sweden's government has proposed barring its prestigious national boarding schools from charging parents additional fees for their children's education, turning them instead into ordinary government-funded free schools. "It's hard to defend the fact that a few select schools should operate under completely different...
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Hurricane-force Xaver struck northern Europe on Thursday night, killing six people and causing damage and transport disruption across Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and southern Sweden ...
s education system has often been cited by Michael Gove as a role model, especially for its policy of state-sponsored free schools providing increased choice for parents. In 2008 Gove told the Conservative party conference that Sweden's school reforms would be introduced if he was in government – and in 2010 promptly did so, with the advent of free schools. A few years later and Sweden's star has dimmed....
Hong Kong-based National Electric Vehicle Sweden producing new 9-3, more than two years after Saab bankruptcy Two and a half years after Saab shut down production, a new sedan rolled off its assembly lines in Sweden yesterday. National Electric Vehicle Sweden, the Hong Kong-based company which bought the brand out of bankruptcy in September last year, presented its new 9-3 Aero Sedan as the first...
s prison population has dropped so dramatically that the country plans to close four of its prisons. What lessons can the UK learn? Swedish prisons have long had a reputation around the world as being liberal and progressive. So much so that in 2005 even Saddam Hussein requested to be transferred to a Swedish prison to await his trial – a request that was rejected by the Swedish authorities . But are...
s black humour into policy in order to raise consciousness among audiences about gender imbalance . Indeed, their action has prompted huge national and international debate in recent weeks. Film critics and scholars, however, have been quick to reject the A rating as "the final sacrifice of meaningful cultural criticism at the altar of honourable stupidity", as Jan Holmberg, CEO of the Ingmar Bergman...