Lesser teams shouldn’t try playing the ball out from the back, it never works out for th–

United Lover@unitedlover.bsky.social · 17h ago

🚨🚨 STAVRO PILO GIVES AEK ATHENS THE LEAD AGAIN! 🤯 AEK Athens 2-1 Real Madrid.

We could have the extraordinary spectacle of the Dutch coalition parties voting different ways on the budget next week. The VVD will oppose a proposal by left-wing opposition party Pro to raise an extra €1.5 billion in wealth taxes while D66 and CDA support it. I can't think of a precedent for this.

Kabinet-Jetten hoopt zich te redden met een noodgreep: verdeeld stemmen mag bij het Belastingplan. Een politiek experiment in het kwadraat

Belastingplan: Dat het D66, VVD en CDA niet lukt tot een consensus te komen over meerderheden voor het Belastingplan, hebben ze inmiddels geaccepteerd. Ze mogen van elkaar gespleten stemmen over amend...

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Be careful what you wish for. #Hegseth

Amid the agonising about how Trump might react to a heavy defeat in the midterms, I feel like we didn’t think hard enough about what effect a heavy defeat would have on Trump. He came into power promising to move fast and break things; he ran into a firestorm of his own making and broke his party.

The downfall of so many dictators is that they surround themselves with career-driven sycophants and are then surprised to find themselves totally detached from public opinion.

Somehow the Dutch government finds itself in a position on its budget negotiations where every route leads to a dead end and commentators are starting to speculate, as the crucial vote in parliament looms on November 12, that the coalition could collapse. How did we get here?

Levensvatbaarheid kabinet staat op het spel bij behandeling belastingplan, CDA-leider Bontenbal spreekt van ‘casinopolitiek’

Minderheidskabinet: D66, VVD en CDA kunnen niet tot een deal komen met de oppositie over het belastingplan, dus ligt het lot van het kabinet nu in handen van de oppositie. „Het is gokken dat de Eerste...

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I think that so many elite institutions and people with important jobs staying on X persuaded many of them the median american voter was a greek statue avatar hailing the thousand year trumpenreich and complaining about race mixing bsky.app/profile/sara...

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · yesterday

lmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship

Trump's veto hat is predictably crass, but it also implies he's going to operate within the constitution rather than launch insurrections or a blizzard of hopeless legal challenges. At least for now.

French government orders recall of thousands of condoms because they tear too easily. Frankly, the fact that someone produced a condom called Joy Division should have been a massive red flag. rappel.conso.gouv.fr/static/fiche...

I'd really like to hear from anybody – at all – who got the right to live in the UK *automatically* after living there after only *five years*, because surely a sitting MP wouldn't just spout ignorant rubbish about such a sensitive matter?

Sean Woodcock MP@seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 3d ago

The right to live in the UK forever will no longer be granted to migrants almost automatically after 5 years. Instead, it will be earned, under the new earned settlement model set out before Parliament today. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Yes, this used to happen all the time. Nobody ever objected to their neighbours’ frilly knickers obstructing the view of unsmiling children dressing their creepy-looking Guy with the only pair of jeans in the street.

Italo House Calvino@dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oooooo remembers ... when people used to hang their washing out across the front bays of Victorian terraces?

“Mann is reportedly developing “Heat 2,” as an adaptation of his 2022 novel of the same name.” So maybe this was the directorial equivalent of method acting. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Utterly fatuous claims being made on other social media channels that the protests in The Hague were smothered by local football hooligans "defending" the city centre. "We don't tolerate our city being plundered, cultural heritage being destroyed or any other form of vandalism," they blustered.

Tien aanhoudingen in Den Haag, maar geen grote demonstraties in steden

In Den Haag wordt geprotesteerd. Er is veel politie, net als in Maastricht, maar daar is de sfeer gemoedelijk.

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Good one-frame summary of the surreal scenes in The Hague. Half a dozen vans and around 30 riot police slow-marching in pursuit of around 10 teenagers, none of whom are armed or even masked. A few are making TikTok videos as they run. It's so quiet you can hear the parakeets in the drone footage.

This week’s @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: the budget negotiations are moving at a pace that would make a snail lose patience, the Netherlands are vaguely boycotting Eurovision after another U-turn, Zelenskyy visits The Hague and some very spooky goings-on in a graveyard in Utrecht.

The Dick Maas’s Cursed Euromast Edition – Week 44 2026 | DutchNews

An unholy trinity of Christians and nationalists emerges as the last great hope for the coalition parties to save their budget. Ukrainian pr

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As expected, the much hyped Gen Z protest in The Hague is a big nothingburger: four youths arrested on the Malieveld for covering their faces, the Herengracht zoned off for about 10 minutes, a bunch of guys in black sitting on café terraces. I've seen bigger riots outside a pancake restaurant.

Veel politie in Den Haag voor aangekondigd jongerenprotest, eerste aanhoudingen verricht

In Den Haag is zaterdag veel politie aanwezig en zijn winkels dichtgetimmerd uit angst voor rellen en plunderingen. Op sociale media circuleren oproepen om te demonstreren op het Malieveld en op te tr...

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And you thought Peaky Blinders was fiction.

Dutch News@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · last wk.

Police name Serbian suspects in Tefaf jewellery heist www.dutchnews.nl?p=274574

Dutch PM Jetten: "The way forward for Europeans, but also for Americans and others, is to put more sanctions on the Russian regime, not less. So buying Russian energy is a very stupid idea. I can assure you that there is no European leader who is willing to buy Russian gas in the next few years."

Jetten calls for tougher sanctions against Russia ahead of talks - DutchNews.nl

Prime minister Rob Jetten has called for Europe to present a united front and step up sanctions against Russia in order to force Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Jetten told r...

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In 21 months of the “strictest border checks ever”, 650 of the 183,000 people who wanted to enter the Netherlands from Germany and Belgium were turned away, while 300 were arrested and 140 claimed asylum. Money well spent. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/10/stri...

“Strict” Dutch border controls lead to 650 refusals in 21 months - DutchNews.nl

Fewer than 700 people were turned away at the Dutch border in 21 months of extra border controls that were introduced as part of the “strictest asylum policy ever”. Border police stopped 43,210 vehicl...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in The Hague today to meet the king and prime minister Rob Jetten, on the day the Netherlands announces a €1.2bn aid package for Ukraine. Maybe he can take a few photos of Scheveningen while he’s here so he can show Putin what his next home looks like. nos.nl/artikel/2636...

President Zelensky vandaag in Den Haag, bezoekt koning Willem-Alexander

Vooraf zal hij overleg voeren met premier Jetten, minister Yesilgöz van Defensie en minister Berendsen van Buitenlandse Zaken.

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The Dutch flip-flop again on Eurovision. Under their Byzantine broadcasting system, the arse is still sending a crew to cover the song contest in Bulgaria but the elbow won’t put up an act to perform at it.

Netherlands to stay away from Eurovision Song Contest after all - DutchNews.nl

The Netherlands will not take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after public broadcaster NPO said there was “not enough support” for sending an act. The decision reverses a previous U-turn a...

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We asked people: “Who is responsible for your life’s problems?” and a lot of them replied: “Someone else!” nos.nl/artikel/2636...

Onderzoek: aanzienlijke groep Nederlanders voelt zich achtergesteld

Het gevoel van benadeling speelt het sterkst bij de onderwerpen wonen en vertegenwoordiging door de politiek.

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Now I understand why Trump wants to get rid of the ICC. Half his candidates for the top international jobs are in prison in Scheveningen.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trump Administration has advocated for Viktor Orbán to be UN Secretary-General, WSJ reports.

As a Gen X-er who believes that my generation’s abject failure of leadership, allowing the dregs of the previous generation to cling to power for far too long, is a big part of the reason we are where we are now, I feel immense relief when I see Gen Z stepping up to the plate.

Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat to the student-led movement in a seismic political shift

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent ...

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Liz Truss keeps digging her own grave. “In Bank Job, her preposterous book-length attempt to justify the policy – an attempt reminiscent of the worst sort of saloon-bar bore, ranting in a corner while other patrons realise it’s time to go home – Truss never concedes she was remotely at fault”.

Ben Coates@bencoates1.bsky.social · last wk.

Liz Truss‘s new book sounds about as good as her premiership www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Klopt, maar het gekke is dat dit ook het leukste is aan LinkedIn, want je puzzeluitslagen kunnen niet “verbeterd” worden door AI.

Marloes Matthijssen@meanderthaler.bsky.social · last wk.

Een van de vele redenen waarom ik een hekel heb aan LinkedIn.

Dutch blood bank Sanquin has stopped leaving out pink iced tarts to thank donors (and restore their blood sugar) after some people reportedly filled carrier bags with the sweet treats. So the cakes have been locked away and donors will have to ask for their reward from now on.

Geen roze koeken meer voor het grijpen: bloedbank Sanquin scherpt snackbeleid aan

Het aangescherpte landelijke beleid is overigens niet verplicht. "Afnamelocaties mogen zelf bepalen hoe ze hier mee omgaan", zegt Sanquin.

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I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised to read that Boris Johnson was given the option of doing something catastrophic for short-term gain and chose the alternative.

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell.bsky.social · last wk.

Former chief of defence staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin tells @ldfreedman.bsky.social that Boris Johnson was so uncertain whether to back Ukraine just days before the full-scale invasion he asked for papers to be drawn up on supporting Ukraine or 'looking the other way.'

On this week’s @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast, we explain the unlikely connection between Erasmus of Rotterdam and Whitney Houston. Also: Rob Jetten’s baby announcement is a challenging moment for the Christian family values party SGP, and winter brings price rises. www.patreon.com/DutchNewsNL/...

The Rutger Bregman Thanks You For Not Speeding Edition – Week 43 2026 | DutchNews

News that Rob Jetten is expecting a baby with his partner delights almost everybody, except the family values party SGP. The discovery of a

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Some very serious questions starting to be asked of Amsterdam police about the murder of a 29-year-old woman, Hajar, whose remains were found in a suitcase dumped in a canal a week ago. www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/h...

Hajar op eerste dag van vermissing om het leven gebracht: Abdi A. blijft nog veertien dagen vastzitten

Dood van Hajar (29) en aanval op pleegvader in Spierdijk: lees hier meer over verdachte Abdi A., het onderzoek en de impact op de pleegfamilie.

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