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The Sinking Orange Submarine Edition - Week 11 - 2024
A breakthrough of sorts in the coalition talks as the four parties agree to form a "programme cabinet", which sounds like a piece of charity shop fur…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Europapapapegaaipimpampetje Edition - Week 10 - 2024
More than 100 days after the election, there are cautious signs that the four parties who have been bickering since December might be ready to start …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Badger Courage and Grenades of Virtue Edition - Week 9 - 2024
Kim Putters begins his efforts to complete a coalition puzzle that looks increasingly like a charity shop jigsaw with two pieces missing. The mindben…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Quincy's Snow Drops in Videoland Edition - Week 8 - 2024
Kim Putters begins his quest to form a new cabinet by wargaming the 501 permutations put forward by Pieter Omtzigt. The mayor of The Hague asks if th…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Wandering Cocks and Floppy Formations Edition - Week 7 - 2024
The talks to form a right-wing coalition fall apart like a Babboe cargo bike after Pieter Omtzigt makes a smart getaway in lead negotiator Ronald Pla…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Empty Chair Carousel Edition - Week 6 - 2024
We ask where the talks to form a coalition government go next after Pieter Omtzigt pulls out of the negotiations, sending the other three party leade…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Coke and Stroopwafel Emporium Edition - Week 5 - 2024
The coalition negotiations show signs of grinding to a halt as Geert Wilders's cold storage freezer fills up and relations between the parties become…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Hell's Bells and Rampant Rabbits Edition - Week 4 - 2024
Geert Wilders went viral with a serieus probleem this week, and he wasn't alone. Dilan Yesilgöz saw her party cleft in two by the refugee crisis, Ams…
2 years, 4 months ago
The British Artists Are Worse Than Stag Parties Edition - Week 3 - 2024
While a toilet paper discount caused stampedes in Utrecht, Geert Wilders broke the coalition talks' radio silence for the first time this week. Not t…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Escape to Swallow Mountain Edition - Week 2 - 2024
The coalition talks resume with a teambuilding week at a country estate in Hilversum, where the four party leaders try to keep the media and the wint…
2 years, 5 months ago