I am currently stocking up on my specially brewed Christmas beers, both alcohol-free and otherwise, along with glögg, julmust and svagdricka...

I have recently produced a couple of posts about wine availability in Sweden, pointing out that it is not actually restricted, as is sometim...

Recently I produced a post about wine availability in Sweden, pointing out that wine sales are not actually as restricted as is sometimes cl...

Sweden has a single government-owned (but not controlled) alcohol retail monopoly, called Systembolaget (although Swedes often refer to it ...

Last week I reported on the obtainability of wine in Sweden ( The availability of wines in government-owned retail monopolies ). I noted tha...

Government-owned retail monopolies have a bad reputation, in the sense that they are seen as restricting the availability of alcoholic bever...

I live in Sweden, where the local retail chain for alcohol products is owned by the government. The European Union (EU) officially discourag...

Everyone in the modern world knows about Climate Change and its basic cause (increased human production of so-called Greenhouse Gases, notab...

In short, negatively. I have written once before about the Covid-19 pandemic ( There seems to be a lot of public misunderstanding about th...

Few people mention the “Railway Monopoly” or the “Road Monopoly” when referring to government-owned (and funded) railways and roads, but if ...

The European Union (EU) officially discourages monopolies, but actually bans only commercial ones, not government ones. One of these excepti...