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1. Who makes which proposal? The VVD wants all two-year-olds with a language delay to attend compulsory preschool education, she writes in her election manifesto. The party combines this with a general reduction of compulsory education to the fourth year of life. 2. Why?Is that plan possible? In this section, plans from political parties are weighed.“We believe that all...

“When it comes to abortion, it seems like all we can do is lose,” sighs Pam Haner. She is standing with about a hundred Republicans in the parking lot of an industrial estate just outside Richmond, the capital of the American state of Virginia. Provided with cucumber water, lemonade and a cheese buffet, the local party branch...

In September 2016, the pay channel Sky Sport interrupted its collaboration with football analyst Paolo Di Canio, because his fascist tattoo was visible. 'DUX' is tattooed on the right arm of the former attacker in Roman letters: the Latin variant of 'Duce' (leader), the honorary title with which Mussolini addressed himself. Di Canio's sympathy for far-right ideas has been...

These were harsh words that Gerdi Verbeet, chairman of the National Committee 4 and 5 May, spoke in 2016 at a meeting about the 'Forgotten victims during the Second World War in mental health care'. These psychiatric patients would “most likely have fallen victim to active neglect,” Verbeet said. A year later, the committee presented figures: the...

Meaning arises from the relationship between form and content. A story gains its weight by how it is told: by the tone, posture and facial expression of a person, by the precise words and the form of the sentences in a text. Our society is full of information but has little form. The media and social...