Etiket: NRC
Opinion | Beep – NRC
Friends are on vacation and have asked me to take care of their chickens and eat from their fruit trees. Since everything is in abundance, I take eggs, mulberries and…
Opinion | Flat – NRC
A friend is away for the day and I walk the dog. That’s why I got a key for the main entrance. But a gentleman in front of me already…
Column | Locker – NRC
I never thought I’d ever get confirmation off the side of a dumpster, but the time has come. White paint letters on that gray box on the sidewalk: ‘Everyone is…
Just a good deed – NRC
“I hope this made her day better,” Australian @lifeofharrison captioned his TikTok videowith a heart and #wholesome. In the nineteen-second video, he asks a woman, sitting alone at a table…
What does NRC think | Rutte showed himself to be a stable prime minister, but has to reinvent himself
When Mark Rutte took office as Prime Minister on October 14, 2010, few in The Hague saw a bright future for the then 43-year-old prime minister. Although Rutte had won…
Opinion | Lawnmower – NRC
My father (90) was in need of a new lawn mower because the old cord mower had stopped working. He decided he now wanted a mower with batteries. In the…
Opinion | Typewriter – NRC
Years ago, I showed my youngest son, then about ten, my old typewriter from the 1980s. He started typing enthusiastically. His own name, names of friends… After a while he…
COA is about to collapse – NRC
The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) is about to collapse. In Ter Apel, the largest asylum seekers center in the Netherlands, almost one in three COA…
Opinion | Memory – NRC
My sister-in-law (91) was temporarily admitted to the Eben Haezer hospital in Amsterdam. A doctor asked her several questions to find out if her memory was still working properly. She…
Protesters storm Iraqi parliament building – NRC
Hundreds and possibly thousands of protesters stormed the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad on Wednesday during the biggest protest since last year’s elections. This was reported by international news agencies…