We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, As an antidote to globalisation, Carl Henrik Leijonhielm (Letters, November 26) advises President-elect ...

THE word “Sweden” was much in evidence when the shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, addressed the Tory party conference on September 30th. That country's free-market education reforms, he said, ...

“The first thing I recommend is to have a plan and structure your learning,” says Mohamed Abdul Hussein, who completed his Swedish courses in just three months. Mohamed studied SFI at Lernia, one of ...

Finland's Language War Nationalists Seek End to Mandatory Swedish Lessons Members of the True Finns party and of Finland's ruling conservatives want to abolish compulsory Swedish tuition in schools.

The frogs in Sweden sound like the ducks of the United States, and the Swedish pigs say “nuff,” not “oink.” Saying “hey” will be understood as hello, and the Swedish word “kaffe” isn’t far off from ...

About 1,500 Swedish people now live in Ireland and they love it here because, they say, the people are friendlier, they laugh more and, believe it or not, the weather is better. In a global market, ...

I was pleased to see Polly Toynbee promote Swedish social democracy as a long-term model for the Labour party (Comment, March 21). But she did not mention the internal features of the Swedish Social ...

There's a character in Jon Stewart's Daily Show who introduces herself by asking: "Do you mind if I tell you how we do things in Canada?" - a refrain that comes to mind whenever Sweden is mentioned ...