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The Cray Me A River Edition - Week 9 - 2025
An €8 billion windfall turns out to be a poisoned chalice for the cabinet as the coalition parties start scrambling for a piece of the pie. The four parties can't agree on how to mark the third anniv…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Sober As A Ugandan Bunker Edition - Week 8 - 2024
The mission to realise the "strictest asylum policy ever" takes another twist as housing minister Mona Keijzer bans local councils from giving refugees priority housing while Marjolein Faber gives th…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Manure Hits The Windmill Edition - Week 6 - 2025
The BBB is the latest coalition party to be plunged into crisis as an MP quits and the local party in its Overijssel heartland splits over "irreconcilable differences". The three face mask millionair…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Lock Up The Wolves Edition - Week 7 - 2025
As Karl Marx once observed, history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, the third as Marjolein Faber's asylum policy. The cabinet is on the brink of collapse for the umpte…
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Hunebed Heist Way Edition - Week 5 - 2025
Another week, another round of infighting and backtracking in the coalition, this time over an eye-watering 0.4% increase in the rate of VAT. The Drents Museum is the reluctant star of an internation…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
The Gourmet Flamingos and Wolves in Blankets Edition - Week 4 - 2025
A hazy cloud hangs over the cabinet after it loses another court case against its nitrogen reduction policy. Marjolein Faber's latest wheeze to send asylum seekers home is a one-way trip to Damascus,…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Blueberry Monday Edition - Week 3 - 2024
Some people call it the most depressing day of the year: to others it's known as the return of parliament. Geert Wilders' coalition crisis roulette wheel lands on the spring budget cuts as he yet aga…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Brabant Is Full of Used Needles Edition - Week 2 - 2025
In keeping with tradition, 2025 kicked off with an explosive row about whether to ban fireworks. Pharmacists go on strike for more pay while they warn about a shortage of supplies. The wartime archiv…
Published on 8 months ago
Ophef of the Year 2024 - Bonus Episode
It's time once again for our annual round-up of the minor incidents that got everybody hot under the collar for five minutes on social media at some point this year. And what a bumper harvest it's be…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Ophef of the Year 2024 Bonus Episode
It's time once again for our annual round-up of the minor incidents that got everybody hot under the collar for five minutes on social media at some point this year. And what a bumper harvest it's be…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago