PinnedDavid GoldsmithSweden’s Seven Sorrowful Setbacks and misSteps in the Struggle against COVID-19 — a Sombre warning…OK well please kindly indulge me with my attraction for alliteration — I absolutely adore alliteritis! I have to warn you now, that even…65 min read·Jan 8, 2021----
David GoldsmithFitness, activity, health, illness — one ring to measure them all?INTRODUCTION24 min read·Feb 18, 2022----
David GoldsmithTime. And Tide. Wait for no man. We make our luck.The long, eventful, unpredictable Covid saga has not finished. Arguably, it has only really just begun. I have not written much about it…4 min read·Jun 14, 2021----
David GoldsmithTwo countries, with two approaches, but still leading to one lousy outcome.Let me start with a fantastic chart from the excellent Robert Roy Britt (a Yankee not a Brit Robert Roy Britt), who has neatly described…9 min read·Jan 21, 2021----
David GoldsmithThe Doctor will kill you now!This is the incredible and harrowing tale of a serial-killer British doctor who his elderly female victim patients adored, until he…17 min read·Oct 3, 2020----
David GoldsmithMidsommar — mayhem, merriment, and madness!In 2019, the scariest movie I saw was Midsommar.11 min read·Jun 19, 2020----
David GoldsmithThat Statue — from commemoration, through corrosion, finally to collapse — was it just awful anger…What did we just witness in Bristol? Edward Colston’s statue abruptly ripped from its plinth this last weekend, and dumped into the river…13 min read·Jun 10, 2020----
David GoldsmithSWEDISH SYMBOLOGY — THE KING, THE FLAG AND THE DAYThe skinny on Juni 6th — the Swedish National Day16 min read·Jun 6, 2020----
David GoldsmithSweden’s COVID-19 herd immunity is nowhere in sight: latest population viral seropositivity…Barely 5 months into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with more than 5 million people infected in over 190 countries, and with over a third of a…8 min read·May 26, 2020----
David GoldsmithCOVID-19, Sweden, and ‘Scandi family’, are all sjuk up: has Sweden become just too sore a thumb…Sweden is famously lacking in overt symbols of patronage, prestige, power and status due to its current disguise (since Per Albin…15 min read·May 8, 2020----