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SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

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Sweden’s young-adult permit relief leaves a harder test at 21

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The Migration Agency office building on Vestagatan in Gothenburg, photographed in 2018.

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Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson during a visit to Helsinki in March 2022.

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Sweden’s government talks stall as work-permit deadlines approach

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali wearing a suit against a green background.

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You cannot defend democracy by presuming Ali guilty

A bus driver in orange reflective clothing holds the steering wheel inside a bus.

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Sweden wants us to drive its buses and care for its elderly — but not dare enter parliament

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A ballot envelope at the slot of a sealed yellow and white ballot box.

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Allegations against Ali are no licence to smear all Somali Swedes

A large crowd gathers beneath a Tax the Rich banner inside the Wisconsin State Capitol in February 2011.

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The Centre Party’s false equivalence between V and SD

A hand places a ballot envelope into a sealed ballot box at a Swedish polling station.

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Foreign-born citizens have every right to vote in their own interests

Four-panel editorial composite of Ulf Kristersson, Jimmie Åkesson, Ebba Busch and Simona Mohamsson speaking separately.

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TIDÖ’S REIGN IS OVER

Sweden’s worst government for immigrants in modern times may be on its way out

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Sweden’s worst government for immigrants in modern times may be on its way out

Simona Mohamsson speaks with a headset microphone on a Liberal Party stage at Almedalen in June 2025.

Opinion

From hugging Åkesson to borrowing his climate excuse

Magdalena Andersson walks toward the Riksdag on 24 November 2021.

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Dear Magda, it is okay to be angry about men's mediocrity

Editorial illustration of an adult and smaller figure sending a heavy line toward a blocked response path.

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Police mocked a Somali mother while her missing son was still alive

Magdalena Andersson carries Sweden’s budget towards the Riksdag through a crowd of officials and cameras.

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The Social Democrats’ failure to draw ideological lines might cost them the election

Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson speaks at Almedalen Week in June 2024.

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Tidö cannot sort immigrants into good and bad without dividing Sweden

A crowd at a Stockholm manifestation holds a sign reading No to Racism, Yes to Humanity.

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Brown victims and white perpetrators: Race cannot matter only when the attacker is brown

A Swedish flag waves from a white flagpole against a clear blue sky.

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Power hungry divisive politicians need to heal the country

An archival portrait of Swedish Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

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Sweden’s ministers keep full pay while sick as the government defends the sick-day penalty

A large crowd gathers beneath a Tax the Rich banner inside the Wisconsin State Capitol in February 2011.

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Why wealthy interests work so hard to make everyone hate taxes

A crowd gathers at an anti-racism demonstration in Stockholm in August 2015.

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Exclusion builds the parallel societies Sweden claims to fear

Green, red and yellow voting buttons marked yes, no and abstain in the Swedish Parliament chamber.

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A society that jails exploited children has failed them twice

A Tesla Model S body on an automated assembly line at Tesla's Fremont factory in 2011.

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Even in “socialist” Sweden, the richest still have the last word

Sweden Democrats supporters hold party flags reading 'Heja Jimmie' during Almedalen Week in Visby in July 2014.

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SD should spend more on integration than on return grants

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

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Sweden cannot demand integration while making belonging conditional

The Ceuta-Morocco border fence winds through green hills on the Ceuta side.

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Ceuta exposed the right's politics of cruelty

Jonas Falk in handcuffs and a black DAS vest while being escorted by Colombian security officers in Bogotá in December 2010.

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Dear Sweden: You buy the drugs. You employ the drug dealers.

Swedish police officers stand between barriers and a crowd at a Stockholm rally in August 2014.

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Born in Sweden. Why does the crime debate still call them immigrants?

Johan Forssell wearing a dark suit and red tie outside the Riksdag during its 2018 opening.

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Sweden cannot claim to protect migrant mothers while splitting their families

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Långholmen in Stockholm in 2024.

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SD’s repatriation proposal puts a price on who counts as Swedish

Alexis Mac Allister, Lionel Messi and Cristian Romero together during Argentina’s World Cup match against Egypt

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Argentina’s calm in crisis is the mark of champions

Thomas Tuchel watching England during the 2026 World Cup match against Ghana

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Tuchel built a wall and trapped England behind it

England captain Harry Kane during the 2026 World Cup match against Ghana

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England’s punitive football culture turns every mistake into a threat

Lionel Messi on the pitch during Argentina’s World Cup match against Egypt in Atlanta

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At 39, Messi showed again why he is football’s greatest ever

Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.

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Sweden must not let misfortune become grounds for losing a home