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Niels Bastiaens • Friday, December 29, 2023 at 1:13 PMInterview Every Friday at 1:13 p.m. in our winter section 'Friday, the thirteenth' you can read an interview with a cross or cyclo-cross rider who finished thirteenth in one of the previous weeks. This ranges from junior girls to elite men, from C2-cross to World Championships. What's the...

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Great sentence, last week in an analysis of the tame conduct of the election campaign by Guus Valk: “Most campaign teams have remembered that these must be the elections of 'the content'.” Indeed, in recent election campaigns I sometimes got the impression that substantive content had become a kind of accessory, an empty concept with which a politician...

In the article Returns the retirement home (13/11) I read with increasing amazement how Fleur Agema (PVV) and Nicki Pouw-Verweij (BBB) ​​proclaim with great certainty that retirement homes must return, although not "old-fashioned retirement homes with long corridors", no, it must be small-scale … Do they know what this will cost?In 1994 I became director of a small-scale traditional...

The US Congress has spared itself another public finance crisis before the holidays. Now aid to Ukraine and Israel threatens to become the political end-of-year confrontation.House Speaker Mike Johnson reached an agreement with Democrats on Tuesday to keep the federal government open and a shutdown to avert. He did exactly what cost his predecessor Kevin McCarthy the...