Gordon Darroch
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Posts on here, conversations on Bluesky and Mastodon where the knuckle-dragger quotient is lower. Podcast: https://t.co/t7cbQbkjI4
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Joined June 2012
Fail again, fail louder: Geert Wilders' asylum plan is a hollow shell
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Asylum seekers going to school in Ter Apel, where waiting times have increased since the current government took office. Photo: Directie Voorlichting There is some dispute about who first defined i…
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Deep in komkommertijd (silly season), the Telegraaf sends its team of crack reporters to investigate the mystery of a Porsche that's been parked in a suburban street for a long time.
telegraaf.nl
Een gedumpte Porsche in Amsterdam Zuid houdt de buurt bezig. Het voertuig staat er al zo lang, dat er ondertussen onkruid omheen groeit. ,,Zit de eigenaar vast?”, grappen bewoners. Ondertussen zitten...
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Horrible scenes in Friesland as a hot air balloon with 34 people on board crashes on landing and bounces along the ground, leaving one person dead and five injured.
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Als CelaVita zich op patat had gericht was het waarschijnlijk gered.
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In diversity news, PSV have signed a player who still gets his hair cut by his mum.
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Douwe Bobgate has damaged undermined Yesilgöz's efforts to reposition the VVD as a serious party that wants to move on from the trivial rows and backbiting that blighted the coalition during Dick Schoof's short-lived cabinet.
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Picking a fight with a celebrity over a highly charged political issue, and losing, isn't a good look for a party leader at the best of times. But these aren't the best of times for the VVD, which has slumped in the polls from 16% to around 10% since the end of May.
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Yesilgöz optimistically suggested settling the dispute over a cup of coffee. By this time Douwe Bob had received death threats and said he had to leave the country until the storm died down. On Monday, after he threatened legal action, she apologised in a joint statement.
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Yesilgöz refused to retract her tweet and posted a seven-minute video that will be studied for years as a textbook political non-apology. She said she didn't believe Douwe Bob was an anti-Semite, before explaining that everything he said was anti-Semitic.
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How much will this catalogue of misjudgments cost VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz? Six weeks ago she posted a tweet accusing pop singer Douwe Bob of anti-Semitism when he refused to play at a sports day for Jewish children because he objected to Zionist posters.
dutchnews.nl
VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz has apologised to singer Douwe Bob for a tweet accusing him of anti-Semitism, averting a potentially damaging court battle ahead of the elections. Yeşilgöz posted the...
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The seal sanctuary at Pieterburen in the Netherlands is so popular in Japan that tiles from its swimming pool fetched up to $500 each at a recent charity auction. A livestream of the pool went viral a year ago following a post on Japanese social media.
dutchnews.nl
A charity auction of 45 original tiles from the former pools at the Pieterburen seal rescue centre has raised €10,101, with most bids coming from Japan, the organisation said on Friday. The sale...
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A life well lived and a lovely last line: "He is survived by his wife, Ellen, his three sons who dream in Russian, and The Moscow Times".
On February 24, 1990 he drove to Russia in a car packed with basic necessities. @KuperSimon on the incredible life of Derk Sauer, mentor to too many Moscow reporters to count.
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Extremely sad news. Derk Sauer kept The Moscow Times running as a critical voice against the Putin regime, moving the operation to Amsterdam after being blacklisted in Russia. A champion of independent media. RIP and condolences to his family and friends.
Our father, Derk Sauer, has passed away. It’s an immeasurable loss, and no words can truly capture what a remarkable father and husband he was. He dedicated his life to defending independent Russian media. In his final days, he asked that people continue to support the free press
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Expect a lot more junk headlines like this in the run-up to the Dutch election on October 29. And Bloomberg: if you'd like to avoid embarrassing yourselves further, my rates are very reasonable.
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"Dutch fast food is the most tasteless thing I've ever experienced.".Tilburg: "Hold my beer.".
ad.nl
Wordt de nieuwe piemelsnack de kermishit van dit jaar? Meerdere Tilburgse snackbars verkopen de ‘perlutsnack’ (Vlaams dialect voor penis) met een prijs van rond de 4 euro. „Hij is prijzig, maar...
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4-0 up on aggregate in the 95th minute, Lokomotiv's players were getting ready to celebrate when the referee was handed a note saying President Putin had just bought Dinamo as a birthday present for his nephew and was looking forward to attending the cup final.
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The lights are going out in Amsterdam's red light district.
dutchnews.nl
Window prostitution brothels in the Netherlands are disappearing, and there are now just around 1,000 red light work spaces in Dutch towns and cities, compared with 1,500 some 15 years ago. Rooms...
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You can walk for three hours at low tide from the island of Schiermonnikoog to the mainland, drive for two hours to Schiphol (after a shower), sit on a plane for 10 hours+ and still not leave the Netherlands. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
the european mind cannot comprehend driving four hours and still being in the same state.
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People living in the seaside town of Zandvoort are so fed up with overcrowding in the tourist season that they're reporting phantom road closures to navigation apps – to the irritation of the local council, which is missing out on parking fees.
nos.nl
Volgens regionale omroep NH melden tientallen inwoners van de Parkbuurt op drukke dagen dat hun straten afgesloten zijn, om dagjesmensen te weren uit de wijk.
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Dutch is much better at telling you which insects to avoid. The English name for this itchy bug is "browntail moth caterpillar".
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