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Author - 'THE INVENTION OF AMSTERDAM' out now! (https://amzn.to/2QJx3bh). Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory. Columnist @ADnl; articles NYT, Telgraph, New Statesman, Groene Amsterdammer etc. Still available on Elon’s hellsite too!
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Not sure about the 2 days - that sounds extreme - but yes officials will check! Very odd
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You’ll never guess what the doctor said…
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They are actually the exact opposite of lazy, because when you “read” them you’re almost always busy doing some other task at the same time. Sitting on a chair or lying in bed with a paper book? Now that’s lazy.
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This isn’t twitter. Not everything has to be about how much I hate the Netherlands.
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I didn’t say it was bad
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Day 1 at Dutch medical school:
How to say “have you tried taking paracetamol and waiting a few days?”
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Posting this from the doctor’s waiting room, where I am carefully practicing my arguments as if it were a job interview, in a probably futile attempt to get some antibiotics
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Team outing: karaoke
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<screams in Dutch>
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Yes! The spin-off we all need
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Yeah, weird that they included that
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Yes but my wife is from Rotterdam and I’d never hear the end of it if I left it out
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I keep meaning to go to Naarden, it sounds nice
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I thought about it, but decided it was nicer to focus mainly on smaller towns
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One interesting option which probably won’t happen but could be popular : former Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb replaces Timmermans…
www.hartvannederland.nl/het-beste-va...
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There’s still no clear route to a new coalition (especially after Yesilgoz attacked Timmermans last week). Since this weekend a leftish VVD-PvdA coalition is now definitely on the table - although Yesilgoz says she would prefer something more centrist with D66 and CDA.
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My Dutch isn’t 100% perfect but I assume “actievoerders” must mean treasonous thugs?
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Wilders, ever the statesman and fan of the rule of law, praised them: “if the government won’t send the army in immediately we’ll have to do it ourselves”
(while he and his fans would of course totally lose their minds if Extinction Rebellion or some pro-Palestinian protesters did anything similar)