Etiket: NRC
The hubris of Ajax – NRC
Glad I wasn’t a Feyenoord supporter on Sunday: so close to a well-deserved victory over Ajax and ultimately losing so sadly. You could almost end up with an inferiority complex.…
Sacred Boxes – NRC
Marlies ter Voorde We live in a pigeonhole society And build, build, build is the slogan So boxes are constantly being added And there is always plenty of choice There…
Children of the account – NRC
The funniest moment of the week was the way President Biden changed his mind after being asked by journalists at some reception whether he thought Putin was a war criminal.…
Telephone – NRC
I sit with my phone in my hand as my golden retriever more or less climbs onto my lap. I say to her: “I love you so much!” Apparently I…
Twenty thousand NRC newspapers not delivered due to a printing failure
Due to a malfunction at the printing works in Amsterdam, twenty thousand morning newspapers are lost NRC Thursday not delivered. The newspaper says that subscribers in Friesland, Drenthe and Zeeland…
From approval to punitive measure – NRC
‘Get the sanctions’, Amsterdam folk boys shouted at each other in the late 1930s, the dialectologist Jan Berns reported in 1993. What it exactly meant remained unclear, but it is…
Putin’s masterstroke – NRC
Maaike Schoon, presenter of Buitenhof, was “stunned” at the answers that the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, Alexander Shulgin, gave her on Sunday. That’s what she said to the guest…
Stress – NRC
Through my work I follow the ‘work-life balance’ course. The first day of class is about stress. What it is, what costs you energy and what gives you energy. Everyone…
First world problems – NRC
‘I have a ticket left for The Worst Person in The World”, a friend asks. Oh yeah, that movie about a millennial who can’t make choices. Before the war I…
Refugees – NRC
I try to respond alertly when a student tells that he crossed the border into Bosnia on foot when he was four, especially when classmates react with a laugh that…