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THE DUTCH REPORT

I have added little to these pages since 2009 because of lack of time, my attention increasingly being on my book writing projects - the same reason I have reduced general comments. The political circumstances in Holland are now much the same as then, with the difference that a conservative voice, though small, is growing. The view that multiculturalism has failed - as recently claimed openly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron - is being raised without the usual howling. Those who are making political profit from the malignant fantasy of multiculturalism will increasingly come under pressure and have to do better than accusing their critics of racism and right-wing extremism. PVV's Geert Wilders attracts attention precisely because the dominant political class is not listening. I will occasionally make comments on Holland when the urge is strong enough and time permits. The political and social insanity in Holland is, after all, entertaining if not instructive.

Not everything, of course, is bad in Holland. My comments focus on the social and political activity of the country. There is another side to Holland which I admire and enjoy. Strangely, Holland (and this is a feature I have never understood) has an almost schizophrenic attachment to Dutch traditional life. This is a subject too complex to summarise here, but is a praiseworthy part of The Netherlands.
 

12 November 2011
More Dutch madness - school deputy principal locked up for 'assaulting' student 
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19 June 2011
The Dutch government kisses multiculturalism goodbye  read on

9 September 2009
Many War criminals among asylum seekers  read on

29 August 2008
The cold reality of Geert Wilders and the PVV's popularity in Holland  read on

27 August 2009
Criminality and violence among ethnic youth in Holland  read on

26 August 2009
An example of the madness that passes for political discourse in Holland  read on

26 August 2009
Parents in Holland want schools to be stricter  read on

7 July 2009
Feminist madness comes back to bite them  read on

11 June 2009
Applying the "far-right" smear  read on

10 June 2009
POLITICAL PLATFORM PARTIJ VOOR VRIJHEID  read on

5 June 2009
Geert Wilder's party PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid - Party for Freedom) is a big winner in The European Parliament Elections  read on

2 June 2009
More on the question of language in Holland  read on

30 May 2009
A wave of sanctimony and hypocrisy threatens to swamp the Dutch parliament  read on

30 May 2009
Somali pirates overjoyed to be captured by the compassionate Dutch  read on

9 May 2009
Casual anti-Catholic bigotry in the land of tolerance read on

9 May 2008
Dutch values revisited read on

9 May 2009
Holland's Edmund Burke Stichting revisited  read on

2 May 2008
OK to rubbish Catholics, but not Muslims  read on

22 April 2008
If Elsevier online wants to offer serious journalism, this is not it  read on

11 April 2008
Pauw and Witteman offer a platform for the usual cowardly anti-Catholic bigotry  read on

10 April 2008
More about the right to use coarse and abusive language  read on

2 April 2008
It's okay to feel intimidated by verbal terrorism. It's natural. But what's to be done? read on

31 March 2008
Thus spoke the Burkean conservative to the Dutch liberal  read on

27 March 2008
Who is the beneficiary of Holland's famous tolerance?  read on

22 March 2008
The professor of "social cohesion" is a joke, but he's not funny  read on

20 March 2008
Just another pitiful example of the spirit of Dutch Liberalism?  read on

13 March 2008
Freedom of speech? Not when Islam is concerned  read on

29 February 2008
Half of problem (criminal) youth in Amsterdam are incorrigible  read on

18 July 2007
The Dutch Labor Party (PvDa) surrenders to Islam  read on

14 July 2007
Foul language in English has been penalised in Leeuwarden  read on

4 July 2007
The people of The Netherlands should understand that foul language in English is still unacceptable to the majority of English speaking people  read on

4 June 2007
Homosexuals deliberately infected with HIV at [homosexual] 'sex parties'  read on

10 April 2007
An amazing development in the row over 'double passports'  read on

30 March 2007
What does the ordinary Dutch person think of Islam in Holland?  read on

29 March 2006
Uproar over Imam's preaching against the infidel - in Holland  read on

28 March 2008
The fascinating, lecturing, finger-wagging, incomprehensible Dutch  read on

29 September 2002
Who is heartily sick to death of the decline in values, standards and manners in our liberal-democratic society? The Dutch, that’s who! (This comment appeared before The Dutch Report was established)  read on

19 September 2002
Is there such a thing as a Dutch Conservative? read on and be astonished... (This comment appeared before The Dutch Report was established)