Ex-VRT boss Mark Coenen has become a grandpa: “Give your grandchild porridge after which he or she falls asleep on your big belly. There’s something very disarming about it.”

Mark Coenen (66), former VRT boss and just about the wittiest columnist in the Flemish media, had a granddaughter and wrote a wonderful book about it. About genes and succession, love and vulnerability. And about how she stabbed him to death ten times with a blunt plastic toy knife. “I especially want to say to Juno: ‘Don’t be afraid, the world has been around for so long’.”

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