Blogs

List of previously written blogs

Advertisement of plants in a garden centre that reads 'slugs don't like this'.

Slug ethics

There’s a slug in my garden, or more likely, lots of them, eating my dahlia. Holes in every leaf, sl…

The power of the word ‘and’

Even though I am currently not working, I am musing. A reader’s letter in the Volkskrant regarding t…

A red square (the symbol of the protests) pinned to a university sweater.

Staakt!!! Staakt!!! Staakt!!!*

If nothing else, the Netherlands – or at least some well-trained Dutch athletes – excels at relays. …

To blog or not to blog

‘The screw in the [moral] compass that allows the needle to move.’ That is the way I characterized a…

Bookshelf displaying academic publications concerning National Socialism

Blue Monday Musings: the 21st century face of fascism

‘It’s an evolved, altered version of fascism’, Pablo del Hierro answered, when asked to what extent …