Hollandophobes like Ruskin were wrong to dismiss the painters of the Golden Age as prosaic materialists. Bold artists such as Frans Hals and Rembrandt transformed portraiture by capturing the poetry of daily life, argues Simon Schama. More >
Taliban fighters executed Afghan civilians, including women, who refused to join them during a recent fierce battle against NATO and Afghan government forces in the south, the Dutch military chief said Friday More >
Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard came very close to dying after being gunned down in a Melbourne street, his surgeon says. The 25-year-old – hailed a hero after being shot while trying to help a woman in distress – was bleeding to death as doctors fought to save his life. More >
Unease about Dutch involvement in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan is steadily growing in the Netherlands and the director of a Dutch aid organisation has warned that the mission may be doing more harm than good. More >
French women, says a recent bestseller, don’t get fat. Japanese women, says another, don’t get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them. More >
Now here is a novel idea to solve the Netherlands’ endless traffic jam problems – from the boss of the Dutch construction industry lobby group: build new roads, but don’t let anyone drive on them. More >
The new government has just spent 100 days doing it and now the new parliament is spending a week doing it: finding out what normal people think. More >
There are a lot of windmills in this little Dutch town that was founded more than 100 years ago. More >
