Kathryn, yes, the poor woman was attacked in one of Stockholm’s main department stores. It’s a credit to Sweden that, up to this terrible event at least – and despite the murder of PM Olof Palme back in 1986, a senior politician can feel confident enough to go shopping in a downtown store without a security entourage. Knowing the stoicism of the Swedes, this is unlikely to change.

I quite understand why Swedish political editor guy is in favor, however mistakenly, of the Euro. To many center or center-right Swedes, fed up with high taxes and the other destructive paraphernalia of their country’s welfare state, the EU (and thus the Euro) are seen as instruments of economic liberalization. To an extent, many British Conservatives felt the same way in the 1970s, and, to an extent, they were right. Unfortunately, the EU has changed since those days. If it’s to work – and to endure – reform in Sweden needs to come from Stockholm, not Brussels.