The Stiff Upper Lip
Joost van Mierlo, Patrick van IJzendoornEnglish life and culture through the eyes of two Dutch journalists. Patrick van IJzendoorn en Joost van Mierlo are correspondents for Dutch media, living in the UK. This is the English translation of their substack, De Stijve Bovenlip.
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The Glorious Revolution
The British are fascinated by the Battle of Hastings, where William the Conqueror’s Normans made mincemeat of the Saxons ruling in England. They are so fascinated by it that they queue for hours to see the visual report of their defeat in t...
The Grapes
“There is the spot where John always sat.” A woman points to a bench near a wall. “He drank here regularly.” I look at the woman again. If she had seen John Lennon sitting there, she must have been at least twenty years old at the time. The...
Ah, Eleanor
There she is sitting on a bench: Eleanor Rigby. She single-handedly represents all the lonely people in the world. Even here in Liverpool, no one cares about her. That’s a shame. It is without a doubt the most beautiful to the Beatles-relat...
Beatle Streets
As I walked from my Airbnb address to the Mersey River convention centre for the Labour conference in Liverpool this week – a 35-minute walk, but faster than the bus – I passed John Lennon Drive. It made my Beatles heart beat faster. I thou...
The Prime Minister
It has been one hundred and fifty years since The Prime Minister was published, the fifth book in the six-part Palliser series by Anthony Trollope. I wandered past my bookcase and discovered that I own three copies of the book, although one...
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Patrick van IJzendoorn en Joost van Mierlo zijn correspondenten voor Nederlandse media in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In deze blog schrijven ze opmerkelijke verhalen die voorbijgaan aan de waan van de dag, maar desondanks meer dan de moeite waard zijn.
Patrick van IJzendoorn is correspondent voor de Volkskrant in Londen
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