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The Resurrection Rutte Edition - Week 14 - 2021
In an Easter week of remarkable comebacks, none was so spectacular as Mark Rutte's career diving and resurfacing like a Dutch submarine catching a gl…
5 years ago
The Great Alkmaar Cheese Scam Edition - Week 12 - 2021
While Dutch salvage experts worked to free a 200,000 tonne cargo ship blocking the Suez canal, back home everything ground to a halt this week. The c…
5 years ago
The Blame My Wife For The Pandemic Edition - Week 11 - 2021
The podcast team asks all the important questions in the wake of the election results. Who will be the fourth wheel on Mark Rutte's fourth cabinet? W…
5 years, 1 month ago
Election Night Special - The Thank God You're Not Hugo Edition - Week 11 - 2021
We react to a dramatic exit poll that the election campaign scarcely deserved, with big wins for D66, disappointment for PVV and CDA and devastation …
5 years, 1 month ago
The Superspreading Nazi Hippos Edition - Week #10 - 2021
In a week dominated by elections, infections and corrections, Mark Rutte engaged some elaborate verbal trickery to justify extending the coronavirus …
5 years, 1 month ago
The It´s All Happening In Drenthe Edition - Week 9 - 2021
A mixed week for boutique entrepreneurs as hairdressers and beauticians went back to work while cafe owners and sex workers protested against the loc…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Dancing German Gangsters Edition - Week 8 - 2021
The third wave of coronavirus rolls in just as deliveries of the vaccine grind to a halt and Amsterdam becomes the superspreading capital. Shipments …
5 years, 1 month ago
The Dreadlocked Lockdown Deadlock Edition - Week 7 - 2021
Alarm bells rang in The Hague this week as a judge struck out the coronavirus curfew, prompting a mad scramble to get a new version through parliamen…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Wrong Way Icebreaker Edition - Week 6 - 2021
Coronavirus plays second fiddle to skating fever this week as temperatures plunge and politicians call for the Elfstedentocht to go ahead, whether Fr…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Hugo Is Skating On Thin Ice Edition - Week 5 - 2021
The Netherlands is bracing itself for its biggest freeze in a decade, but it still won't be as cold as the relationship between health minister Hugo …
5 years, 2 months ago