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The Red Pencils and Black Markers Edition - Week 23 - 2024
The European election campaign didn't quite catch fire, but things warmed up in the final days with the PVV and GroenLinks-PvdA running neck-and-neck…
2 years ago
The Pulling A Dick Out Of A Hat Edition - Week 22 - 2024
The six-month quest for a new prime minister ended this week when former spy chief Dick Schoof accepted his own Mission Impossible: keeping the new r…
2 years ago
The Revolving Torentje Door Edition - Week 21 - 2024
Polish podcaster Patryk Kulpok joins us this week to chew over the progress of the incoming government and the coalition deal. Which opposition leade…
2 years, 1 month ago
The False Frikandel Paintball Edition - Week 20 - 2024
It was a week when a small European country finally got tough on foreigners who stir up trouble and harass its citizens. But most of the Netherlands …
2 years, 1 month ago
The We Will Never Get A New Cabinet Edition - Week 18 - 2024
As the coalition talks stall, Geert Wilders delivers on his promise to put the Dutch first by slinking off to Budapest to give a speech in English ab…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Blazing Banners and Non-Smoking Bureaucrats Edition - Week 17 - 2024
The coalition talks are in limbo as Geert Wilders turns up the Timmermans Threat level to 11 and the parties try to turn an refugee drama into a cris…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Fake Kremlins and Rotten Parliaments Edition - Week 16 - 2024
In the week that Hugo de Jonge revealed that the Binnenhof renovation will cost €2bn and last until 2028, we ask if there is any chance of a governme…
2 years, 2 months ago
The My Big Fat Greek Footballing Tragedy Edition - Week 15 - 2024
Crisis club Ajax plumb new depths of hubris as their ramshackle defending on the pitch is eclipsed by a flurry of own goals in the boardroom. Down th…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Weapons of Mass Distraction Edition - Week 14 - 2024
Groningen is up in arms over the senate's decision to pause the great gas switch-off, in a week when several government plans perish in the upper hou…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Boomers with Clipboards Edition - Week 12 - 2024
After agreeing on a form of government that keeps Pieter Omtzigt on board and Geert Wilders muzzled, the four right-wing parties finally get down to …
2 years, 3 months ago