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 punk of British journalism
Fifteen years ago, Rod Liddle, the renowned journalist who died on Sunday at the age of 66, put on a fluorescent yellow vest. In this outfit, he began telling people on the street in an authoritarian manner where they were and were not allo...
Dry Plain
One of the most persistent myths about England, and there are quite a few, is that it always rains here. That might be true for Manchester or the Lake District, but certainly not for the south of the country, and more specifically the capit...
Holy Book
A former UK correspondent, who had been in London so long that he became the face of the country, had a surprise for me. He gave me an antique edition of The Book of Common Prayer, an edition with a silver-plated cover depicting Cherubim. T...
Water
One of my favourite cafés in London is Conduit Coffee House. It is located around the corner from Great Ormond Street Hospital, the famous children’s hospital, in the Holborn district. I discovered it over twenty years ago, when I had to wa...
Speaking about Brexit in the lion's den
Speaking about Brexit in the lion’s den
A former ambassador in London on his experience at the Oxford Union
Jul 26, 2026
From 2020 to 2024, Karel van Oosterom was the Dutch ambassador in London. He is writing the book “Please, sorr...
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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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