How was your weekend? I had a couple of days in Riga, if you’ve never been – I recommend it!

• What do you think of when you think of Scandinavia and is it really a left-wing liberal utopia? Michael Booth says the answer is ‘no’
• As you can see from this tweet, happiness in Sweden is largely reliant on anti-depressants

Rank of antidepressant use in 23 OECD countries 1 Iceland 2 Australia 3 Canada 4 Denmark 5 Sweden 7 UK pic.twitter.com/GOZUuoMW83

— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) January 24, 2015

• The debate about gender differences is increasingly focused on the brain. Latest research confirming what most people have always known – men and women are similar but different
• Mark Meynell has an excellent post on creating a mixed diet of reading
• If heaven is all I hope it will be – then all these libraries will be there and I will have the time to read!