Our national self-image as a safe, caring country is starting to unravel.
Some years ago, a news report in my local paper in Sweden went viral. Headlined ‘Piece of paper on fire in Nässjö’, it ran as follows: ‘A piece of paper that lay on the ground was burning in central Nässjö last Friday night. Someone had lit the piece of paper and left it on the ground. The burning paper was found and put out by a person living in a house nearby.’
