Erika Nilsson

The Pirate Party UK

by Erika on Monday 20 April 2009, 19:30 | Comments (2)

A month and a half ago, I posted a message to the — sadly rather sleepy — PP International forum, asking who would like to join me in changing the world, starting with the UK (I didn’t phrase it quite like that, but that’s the idea :) ).

As we all know (or perhaps not — not everything reaches the mainstream media these days), personal integrity, the Internet and freedom of speech are under attack. Not only in the UK, but all over Europe. We cannot let this happen. Something needs to change, and it’s about time that we change it. Let’s start by changing the UK. Let’s start by starting our very own Pirate Party.

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Ben Nevis as a political metaphor

by Erika on Tuesday 31 March 2009, 22:45 | Comments

(Note that most inline links in this post lead to Swedish sites. Look towards the end for Anglophone links.)

Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Last weekend, I and a few others went to climb it, and I couldn’t help drawing parallels between that and a completely unrelated struggle for the top, which I have, to some extent, been involved in lately: that of Sweden’s newest political party.

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