Ukraine reportedly wants to rename the part of Donetsk that Russia has failed to annexe “Donnyland” after Donald Trump, hoping that the US president will be less willing to order the Ukrainians to hand it over to Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Dutch government is stubbornly holding out on cutting fuel duty even though the Netherlands has the highest pump prices in Europe, but for how much longer? The minority government will come under pressure when parliament debates the spring budget update on Thursday. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/cabi...

Looking forward to the takes from the AI evangelists explaining why we should all stop training our bodies to run marathons now that the bots can do it better. www.theguardian.com/sport/video/...

Your regular @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast hosts were unavoidably detained across the Strait of Calais this week, but luckily Robin and Senay stepped in to discuss the war, the royal sleepover in Washington and the unintended consequences of the new asylum rules. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

If Ajax don't finish in the top four this season, they'll have to play their Conference League play-off matches away from home. The Johan Cruyff Arena is already booked by Harry Styles. nos.nl/artikel/2610...

The Dutch defence ministry has tightened security around the military postal service after a newspaper located its frigate in the Gulf by sending a Bluetooth tracker attached to a postcard. www.gld.nl/nieuws/84631...

KLM has started cancelling short-haul flights to mitigate the high cost of kerosene, mainly to destinations such as London and Düsseldorf. Other airlines are likely to follow suit if the Strait of Hormuz stays blocked. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/klm-...

The sun came out for five minutes today. Then realised it was in Glasgow and concluded it must have taken a wrong turn.

So Trump has failed to overthrow the Iranian regime, failed to get shipping moving in the Strait, failed to take Greenland, failed to force his Nato allies to join him on his little crusade and failed to keep Orbán in power. Is it too early to say this new world order isn't working out as planned?

The 16th-century equivalent of Trump shoehorning his way into hit movies like Zoolander and Home Alone 2. Hearteningly, the rich donor's name has been lost to history.

A tale of two passports: Dutch dual nationality law is outdated www.dutchnews.nl?p=266077

He's Banksy. It's been an open secret for years.

Dutch newspaper AD talked to the US ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo. www.ad.nl/politiek/tru...

We recorded an early @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast this week because … well, you know … so catch up with the recovery of the Romanian helmet, what the Dutch are doing about rising fuel prices and PSV Eindhoven's third successive title triumph. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

After Ye was banned from entering the UK, the Dutch justice minister faces calls to follow suit and block two upcoming concerts in Arnhem. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/van-...

Maybe they should call it the Glorious Revolution and put a protestant king on the throne, just to make sure future historians don't describe it as an invasion.

Did they use the word "unfun" on purpose to create friction in my brain? Because it's working.

Is Infantino still expecting Iran to show up for the World Cup?

"I didn't want to kidnap the children, but when you threatened to leave us you gave me no other choice."

The Dutch government is considering banning “porn sitting” – giving electronic tablets with soft porn to prisoners who are kept in their cells because there are no staff to supervise daytime activities. Opposition parties called the practice as an “inappropriate luxury”. nos.nl/artikel/2609...

A year ago Orbán was one of the star turns of a triumphant conference of far-right European parties in Madrid; now his star is falling so fast that Deputy Vance has flown out to attend his election campaign, in the same way that some hospices have cats that can sense when a resident is about to die.

There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Like Alan Partridge explaining studio budgets to kids in hospital on Christmas Day, but without the social graces.

I've given up trying to work out what is and isn't an Onion headline.

Fascinating to live in a country where switching to renewable energy is seen as unaffordable woke nonsense, but being forced to turn the heating down and stop driving one day a week to compensate for man-made - sorry, idiot-made - fossil fuel shortages is absolutely fine. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/rtl-n...

It would be great if this sentence made people reflect on how dependent we are on this little fuzzy space rock and try harder to stop making a hot mess of it.

No Dutch News podcast today, but we'll be back up next week. www.patreon.com/posts/no-pod...

The solid gold Dacian helmet that was stolen in an overnight raid from a Dutch museum 14 months ago has been recovered after the thieves struck a plea bargaining deal with prosecutors. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/stol...

The LinkedIn dudes who say AI is the future of writing look uncannily similar to the Twitter dudes who said NFTs were the future of art collecting.

A teenage boy radicalised by the far-right in the Netherlands set up a Telegram group, called for “weapons and revolution” and offered to pay someone €1,500 to blow up the Belgian parliament. He was 12 years old at the time. www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/18...

Some 40 countries have legalised equal marriage since the Netherlands became the first, exactly 25 years ago today. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/i-do...

Gorinchem, a town of 38,000 south-east of Rotterdam, is going to hold its local elections again because of concerns about ballot fraud on March 18. The electoral council warned that a rerun could itself influence voters, but councillors want a “clean mandate”. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/03/gori...

Our latest special episode of the @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast is a bluffer's guide to the Dutch media, tackling questions such as: which are the best news outlets to follow if you're learning the language and why are there so many identical late-night talk shows? www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

25 years after the Netherlands legalised same-sex marriage and despite dire warnings that it would trigger the end of civilisation, it's become such an established feature of life that our gay prime minister is about to marry his partner and almost nobody bats an eyelid. www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2...

The "No Kings" slogan had to be adapted in the Netherlands, which is a constitutional monarchy.

Als brandstof straks te duur wordt kunnen we gewoon tanken met de tranen van vreugde van boomers die zitten te orakelen over de autoloze zondagen van hun jeugd.

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’” Kurt Vonnegut This is the reason we keep on, because what else is there? But today, it’s hard.

This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: Latest on the local elections and Forum voor Democratie's latest meltdown, the cabinet’s laissez-faire response to rising fuel prices, a huge headache for the KNVB, and D'Artagnan's remains resurface in Maastricht. on.soundcloud.com/xQQ3fGD4WrxS...

Housing minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan gave a dog’s breakfast of an interview to The Guardian, then accused the newspaper of making up a quote. When that failed, she claimed she'd been misinterpreted. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Another split in Steenwijkerland; www.destentor.nl/steenwijkerl...

It's been a week since the local elections in the Netherlands, but that's more than enough time for the hyper-volatile far-right conspiracy cult Forum voor Democratie to start falling apart. In Venlo, FVD lost one of its 2 seats when Brigitte de Kinkelder defected. omroepvenlo.nl/nieuws/artik...

Een van de antwoorden op De Slimste Mens luidde dat Angela Merkel werd geboren in de DDR. Dat is onjuist. Zij is in Oost-Duitsland opgegroeid, maar geboren is ze in Hamburg. #slordig

Dutch politicians in a crisis tend to behave like someone who sees a chip pan catch fire in their kitchen and thinks: "Let's just wait to see if the smoke alarm goes off."

A potential nightmare for the KNVB: more than a dozen footballers in the Eredivisie may have been working illegally for a year or more because they gave up their Dutch citizenship to play for another country such as Indonesia or Suriname. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/03/knvb...

Stopping cancer is woke now.

Dutch government finally caves to pressure from parliament to set up an emergency fund for people on low incomes who are being hit hardest by soaring energy prices. The lack of urgency is quite striking. In Dutch politics, indecisiveness is often mistaken for sangfroid. www.ad.nl/politiek/noo...

The British and Dutch governments have both now said there are indications Iran is behind the group that claimed responsibility for anti-Semitic attacks in London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dutch motorists are heading across the border to Belgium, where petrol is up to 70 cents a litre cheaper, to fill their cars.

As I’ve said before, you write Geert Wilders off at your peril, but as this analysis from @chrisaalberts.bsky.social shows, the PVV is facing some serious competition on the far right from Forum voor Democratie and is mostly losing it. chrisaalberts.nl/2026/03/23/d...

The only thing burning away faster than Iran’s oil facilities at this point is Mark Rutte’s reputation as a global statesman.