The Fragile Far-Right Rubber Ring Edition - Week 45 - 2026
Having spent months courting opposition votes for their budget plans, the parties in Rob Jetten's coalition decide to split up and look for...
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20 of 425 episodesThe Dick Maas's Cursed Euromast Edition - Week 44 - 2026
An unholy trinity of Christians and nationalists emerges as the last great hope for the coalition parties to save their budget. Ukrainian pr...
The Rutger Bregman Thanks You For Not Speeding Edition - Week 43 - 2026
News that Rob Jetten is expecting a baby with his partner delights almost everybody, except the family values party SGP. The discovery of a...
The Pandas Have More Fun Than Dolphins - Week 42 - 2026
Pandemonium breaks out in the Dutch middle classes as hackers cancel the country's Albert Heijn bonus cards. Rob Jetten criticises Donald Tr...
The Bamboo Boards and BBB Bunnies Edition - Week 41 - 2026
Rob Jetten fetches the rusting polder model from the Catshuis loft and sits down with the trade unions to revive the budget talks. The IND i...
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...
The 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...