Ben's Blog

This is the last post to be made on this blog, but never fear. I'm still here and I still love you. It's just that, due to the cle...

Trollhättan is another of those places people like me are just going to like. Historically it was as far up the Göta river as boats could c...

I have a new hero and I bet you've never heard of him, unless you're Swedish. Gustaf Dahlén : self-taught engineering genius and pol...

I had been looking forward to this for so long. The more I got sick of our pathetic excuse of a wet and miserable English summer, the more I...

So, Prometheus . Well worth the evening out. Well acted and beautifully produced. Noomi Rapace has a great future: a Swedish Sigourney Weave...

I read several articles over the weekend in various outlets in which former trendy lefty reporter columnist types admitted how their youthfu...

Once upon a time there was a young man with the twin ambitions, not incompatible, of making it big in publishing and becoming a successful w...