Why Sweden’s right-wing parties are bickering over call to freeze trade with Israel

In this week's episode we talk about Sweden’s return to day-to-day life as the summer holidays wind down. In politics we discuss divisions on the right on how to deal with Israel, and we dig into reactions to news that the Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson uses Chat GPT to test out new ideas.

Host Paul O'Mahony is joined this week by regular panelist Richard Orange. 

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Swedish traditions 

• Eight phrases to get back in the groove like a Swede after the summer holidays

Weather 

• MAP: The places in northern Sweden that set new heat records in July
• Tourists seeking 'coolcations' in Norway and Sweden hit by heatwaves instead

Politics

• Politics in Sweden: Swedish right divided over relations with Israel
• Christian Democrat leader slammed for claiming Israel 'doing the world a favour'

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