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 Tennis player Rafael Nadal won his 21st title in a Grand Slam tournament last weekend, making him the tennis player with the most Grand Slams to his name. The Grand Slam tournaments are the four most important, prestigious tournaments played each year, Wimbledon, Roland Garros, the US Open and the Australian Open. That is a…

Last week the news was dominated by the problems surrounding the extremely popular TV talent show “The Voice of Holland”. It turned out that several men, including a much-loved rapper had sexually harrassed many of  show’s candidates and the management had let it all happen. The programme was stopped immediately and the powerful De Mol…

The last few weeks the international tensions have risen to the boiling-point. Some time ago I wrote here that we could be glad that the transition of the Great Conjunctions to the Air element only brought a pandemic and not war, but maybe this was a bit premature. At the border with Ukraine Russia has…

Last week it was a year ago that Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, the violence was initiated by the leaving president himself. Trump had started spreading the rumour that in the counting of the votes fraud would be committed long before he lost the 2020 elections. His supporters believed in this rumour and some…

At the start of the new year, it is a good idea to look back on 2021 and the C-word cannot be avoided. At the moment there is an explosion of infections and a booster campaign is launched very swiftly, the US and Europe seem to be affected most, other parts of the world are…

The Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has a quite flexible relationship with truth, he has acute  memory problems at the moments that this is useful. His party cannot be bothered too much about this they let him get away with it. For the British PM Boris Johnson – “BoJo” – things are more problematical at…

And he did it! It was a blood-curdling Formula -1 final last Sunday in Abu Dhabi and Max Verstappen seemed to be loosing it. He could start the race up front in pole position, but his opponent Hamilton  immediately took the lead and kept it. However, because he changed his tyres at a very smart…

Last week Josephine Baker was taken up in the Panthéon, that typically French gallery of national heroes. Baker was born in the US as a poor black girl but emigrated to France (her birth-place St Louis, Missouri was then still partly French-speaking) where she achieved enormous success as a dancer, singer and actor. In the…

The last few weeks we wrote about the dénouement of the Formula-1 battle for the championship between Max Verstappen en Lewis Hamilton and now we will make a prediction. Will “our’’ Max win, and this “’our” is a problem. As a Dutchman I want to see him win and this does not make it easier…

Last week we discussed Max Verstappen’s lunar return, he is the Fomula-1 driver who is still in the lead in the World Championship. This lunar return was unfavorable for him because Lord 7 of opponents was very strong in it and indeed the difference between Verstappen and his competitor Lewis Hamilton, who is on his…