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In the name of the people
I carry a Dutch passport, as do both my parents. I was born and raised in the Netherlands. Bar the years that I was not living anywhere, because I was travelling, I’ve only lived in the Netherlands. Dutch is my mother tongue. I am named after a well-known Dutch legend. I cycle everywhere, with my
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The power of the word ‘and’
Even though I am currently not working, I am musing. A reader’s letter in the Volkskrant regarding the alternative Remembrance of the Dead (Nationale Dodenherdenking, annually on 4 May) triggered this blog. In this letter the Volkskrant reader wrote: ‘[…] it feels as if the remembrance of the Holocaust and the extermination of Jewish life
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To blog or not to blog
‘The screw in the [moral] compass that allows the needle to move.’ That is the way I characterized academics, and legal historians in particular, in my contribution to a Liber Amicorum a few years ago. This was written when the UK had already voted to leave the EU, but had not yet left. Crimea was