Swedish police kiss goodbye to sense

Last week I reported on a strange story about a Swedish civil servant who was required to quit after drinking with, and kissing, a journalist. Now it has taken another bizarre turn. Police have raided the offices of TV4 in Stockholm in an attempt to obtain a copy of a restaurant bill paid by the reporter Anders Pihlblad after his tryst with the prime minister's aide, Ulrica Schenström, which led to her resignation. "It would be comic if it wasn't such a waste of public money", comments James Savage, editor of The Local website. The Swedish journalists' union don't think it funny either, arguing that the hunt for the bar bill "constitutes an attack on the protection of sources enshrined in the constitution." (Via The Local)