Everything is besides terrible, also incredibly beautiful | Joost Oomen reads his column ‘Jubel’

Of course, it is the job of the columnist to respond to current events. And the current events are terrible at the moment: there is war, football, a beloved television icon turns out to be a tyrannical sack of hay, trains are not running anywhere as they should and a loaf of bread remains unaffordable for an extra month. But somewhere else in the country someone eats hopjesvla for the first time in their life, somewhere someone buys an Advent calendar at a discount. This may not be news, but it is happening.