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The Three Vodka Scheveningen Challenge Edition - Week 38 - 2025
Prinsjesdag is usually a day to delight fashion fans and financial nerds, but this year's edition fell short on both fronts as the parties got stuck into the election campaign. Train strikes are call…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Go Home, Russian Drones, You're Drunk Edition - Week 37 - 2025
Usually Treasury Tuesday is the high point of September, but this year it was overshadowed by Super Saturday, when Dutch politicians stood up on a conference stage and said who they didn't want to fo…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Wolves Are Raising the Bar Edition - Week 36 - 2025
The podcast returns with a look back to a summer in which the government managed the unprecedented feat of collapsing for a second time. The political parties' manifestos are dominated by the issues …
Published on 2 months ago
The Eternal Sunshine of the Forever Chemicals Edition - Week 27 - 2025
In a hilarious and intricate farce set in The Hague, Geert Wilders plays a man who wakes up every morning unable to remember if he still supports his own asylum bill. Another victim of Wilders' amnes…
Published on 4 months ago
The Daddy's Armoured Ferris Wheel Edition - Week 26 - 2025
Mark Rutte's plan to treat Donald Trump like Orange royalty paid dividends at the Nato summit in The Hague. Specifically 5% dividends, as the 32 nations agreed to raise their defence spending with a …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
The Twisted Family Trees Edition - Week 25 - 2025
The election campaign gathers pace as Dilan Yesilgöz goes on the attack against GroenLinks-PvdA while also slamming the door on another coalition with Geert Wlders' PVV. NSC narrowly avoids descendin…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Drifting Pancakes and Terrorist Vegetables Edition - Week 24 - 2025
After a week of strategic bickering between the coalition parties, Dick Schoof brokers a deal to split the asylum ministry three ways, making it less fragmented than it was under Marjolein Faber. Ams…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Orange Shields For White Lions Edition - Week 23 - 2025
In the most unsurprising plot twist since James Cameron's Titanic, the Dutch cabinet collapsed this week when Geert Wilders walked out in protest at his own asylum policy. With an election almost fiv…
Published on 5 months ago
Collapse of the Cabinet - Extra Episode - Week 23 - 2025
Eleven months after Dick Schoof's cabinet took office and 10½ months later than expected, the Dutch cabinet has collapsed after Geert Wilders pulled out of the four-way right-wing coalition. We look …
Published on 5 months ago
The Gourmet Wolves At The Circle Party From Hell Edition - Week 21 - 2025
The capital's 750th birthday celebrations get off to a chaotic start, while Ajax lose the title and their Italian coach in the space of a week. Foreign affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp has more succe…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago