Meanwhile in Sweden...

Sweden held its Emergency Awareness Week from May 28 to June 3 and the government sent every household – about 4.8 million – a copy of a 20-page glossy booklet entitled "If Crisis or War Comes" which was illustrated with scenes of armed conflict. According to the government, the booklet contains information necessary to ensure people are "better prepared for dealing with serious events both in peacetime and – in the worst-case scenario – war."

This is the first time any Swedish Government has felt such a need – it didn't happen in World War 11 when the country faced the risk of an invasion by Nazi Germany or during the cold war when the USSR and its communist eastern European allies were sabre rattling.

But, being Sweden, the booklet studiously avoided any politically incorrect mention of Muslim extremism and the threat that poses despite the fact that earlier this year when the booklet was being prepared, the Security Service chief Anders Thornberg said that Islamic extremism continued to pose the major threat to the public. In 2017, Swedish authorities admitted that the number of violent Islamist extremists had risen ten-fold in a decade to more than 2,000.

Fans of The Muppets will fondly recall the character of the Swedish chef who is clearly demented, is usually depicted in the kitchen and who waves around unlikely cooking utensils including firearms, sports equipment and hand tools. And he is sprouting such unintelligible gibberish that the Swedes apparently think that he is Norwegian.

If they pay more attention to their leaders then they will finally realise that the chef is Swedish.