How to speak Scanian like a southern Swede

We start this week with news that broke just before we started recording the episode. The victims of two separate murders in the greater Stockholm region on Wednesday were revealed to be, in the first killing in Husby, an uncle of organised crime chief Rawa Majid and, in Södertälje, Salwan Momika, who was behind a quran-burning spree in 2023. Coming at the end of a record month for explosive attacks, how serious is the current crime wave and what's being done to stop it?

We also look at why Sweden’s national security adviser finally resigned and what it means for the government, why a Swedish police tactical unit boarded a ship in the Baltic. And, taking a breaking from the news, we learn how to speak Swedish like a Scanian.

Host Paul O’Mahony is joined this week by regular panelists Emma Löfgren and Richard Orange.

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

Crime

• Quran-burner Salwan Momika shot dead in Stockholm
• Social Democrats: Turn all of southern Stockholm into one big stop-and-search zone
• Swedish police warn parents to keep eyes on kids after wave of violence

Politics

• Politics in Sweden: Why carelessness isn't the only issue with the PM's 'bästis'

Military

• 'I think it's the Russians': Swedish defence expert on cable sabotage

Language

• 17 dialect words you'll need to know to survive in southern Sweden

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