Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown

Where have all the psychos gone? Ignore what its crime writers say: it turns out Sweden isn't brimming with neo-Nazis, paedophiles and jihadis after all Joanna Kavenna Sunday July 6, 2008 The Observer Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future That Disappeared Andrew Brown Sweden, along with its Scandinavian neighbours, has for some years been a top performer in those vaguely perplexing polls that calibrate the general experience of a population. The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Sweden fifth out of 111 in its quality of life index and first in its index of democracy. On average, Swedes live longer than most other people in the world (fifth out of 191 countries in the CIA World Factbook). The nation also recently came third in the Yale University/Columbia University environmental performance index, third in the... [read full story]