The MC Escher's Budget Carousel Edition - Week 40 - 2026
Eelco Heinen celebrates too soon after striking a budget deal with opposition parties that lasts for exactly as long as it takes them to rea...
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20 of 420 episodesThe Fallen High Flier Goes Up In Smoke Edition - Week 39 - 2026
In a week of fire and fury, Donald Trump turns up the heat on the ICC, David van Weel is grilled on misleading crime figures and the CDA's f...
The Sinterklaas Boulevard Edition - Week 38 - 2026
Prinsjesdag was a day of sound and fury, with saboteurs disrupting the railways, protesters spray-painting the Royal route, and a King's spe...
The Original Flat-Pack Construction Kit Edition - Week 37 - 2026
Budget Day promises to be full of drama this year as rising inflation and living costs put further pressure on the coalition parties. Freigh...
The Over-Hassled Coke Dealers and Cancelled Nazis Edition - Week 36 - 2026
Rob Jetten’s hopes of doing a budget deal with the opposition are dashed when the three coalition parties can't agree who to bring on board....
The What’s The Permit Deadline Time, Mr Wolf? Edition - Week 27 - 2026
After seven years of gridlock, stalled negotiations, upturned flags and tractor protests, the government believes it has a solution to the n...
The Red Alert, Orange Fever and Blue Wave Edition - Week 26 - 2026
Children's rights were neglected and their well-being suffered during the coronavirus lockdowns, the inquiry into the pandemic is told this...
The Pick On An Empress Your Own Size Edition - Week 25 - 2026
The Japanese emperor visits the national war memorial to commemorate the victims of his country's occupation of Indonesia. Over at the World...
The Book Arrest and Organ Joke Edition - Week 24 - 2026
New European rules on asylum come into force, but the Dutch immigration service warns it will take a year to clear the backlog. An extraditi...
The Vitesse Arnhem of Cabinets Edition - Week 23 - 2026
In the wake of the recent asylum riots, we unpick the Dutch far-right landscape with the help of Leiden university professor Sarah de Lange....
The Herding Cats and Chasing Cheeses Edition - Week 22 - 2026
Social affairs minister Hans Vijlbrief cans the cabinet’s plans to extend the retirement age in the hope of avoiding a summer of strikes. Ac...
The Fishermen's Final Day Derby Dogfight Edition - Week 21 - 2026
As the atmosphere outside asylum centres grows heated and the debate becomes increasingly poisonous, Rob Jetten sends in a crack team of civ...
The Keep Calm And Sail To Tenerife Edition - Week 19 - 2026
An outbreak of a rat-borne virus on a cruise ship triggers mass anxiety as phrases like "self-isolation" and "test and trace" re-enter the l...
The Ready... Aim... Wildfire Edition - Week 18 - 2026
The army is feeling the heat after several wildfires break out during training excercises in tinderbox conditions. The king gets his skates...
The Marjolein Faber's Legacy of Chaos Edition - Week 17 - 2026
Vaudevillian scenes in the Senate as the PVV block their own asylum bill before blaming D66 for not wanting to soil their hands with it. The...
The Women Take Over The Podcast (Again) Edition - Week 16 - 2026
Those who can, plan; those who can't, plan scenarios. At any rate, that seems to be how the Dutch government is preparing for the impending...
The Crazy World of Arthur Brand Edition - Week 15 - 2026
The Netherlands promises to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but only once the hellfire has died down. Continuing the theme of negotiati...
The You Do Not Need A Token For This Podcast Edition - Week 13 - 2026
As political parties around the country come together to form council administrations, the far-right Forum voor Democratie rage against the...
The Rob Jetten Takes The Plunge Edition - Week - 12 - 2026
All parties claim victory after this week's local elections, but the real winners were the local parties, who took more than one-third of th...
The You Cannot Vote For Henk Krol Edition - Week 11 - 2026
With a week to go until the local elections, we provide a Dutch News crash course in how to vote and find your way through the jungle of loc...