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Last Days! Before the bell tolls: 12 of the Best
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From the front lines of Dutch minds, a candid digest of media comment and opinion in the Netherlands: "Amazingly interesting commentaries on politics, culture, international affairs and much more" - Douwe de Lange, law student.
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Twelve Days of Christmas
The best 2nd Opinion posts, unlocked and free-to-air
A good price for betrayal
Rutte IV: the principle and the paradox + 12 Days of Christmas
Shell quits
Oil giant moves primary stock market listing - and climate battle - to London
The COP that couldn't kill coal
But Dutch MPs forced a U-turn from the Netherlands
The narco-terror of Frau Antje
For once, criticism doesn't offend
No, Germany isn't "more like us"
Unlike their Dutch peers, Berlin’s politicians are re-inventing their government
How to be cool
Sigrid Kaag talks tough, and Shell takes rap for "carbon-neutral" tankers
Carrot. Stick. Muddle. Hope.
Brussels sets 'Fit for 55' net zero agenda, but better offsetting is key to curb emissions
The brother, the lawyer, now the journalist
The narco-state vs. Peter R. de Vries, crime reporter (1956-2021)
Last Day Free: summer six-pack
Six of the Best posts unlocked in the 2nd Opinion archive
Unlocked: Shell on trial, Bob Dylan's 80th, Belfast in flames, Dutch Sex Ed, and more
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Kenneth Kaunda: the last of the first
Zambia's leader was the last survivor among Africa's founding fathers
The double-Dutch standard in Sex Ed
A double-Dutch standard in sex education means straight-talk about sex is often wishful thinking
An earthquake under Big Oil
The Dutch court, US shareholders and a policy to ban new oil and gas projects
A voice like sand and glue
On Bob Dylan's 80th, confessions of a Bob-cat
VLOG: Bob Dylan at 80 + Big Oil AGMs
#11, Wk 20-21
Deventer murder: trial and re-trial by media
The handyman, the pollster and the podcast
VLOG: Murder, they wrote
#10, Wk 19-21
More lamb than lion
Parliament chooses to bark, not bite