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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A snob
On this day, Alan Clark has a dinner date with Charles Douglas-Home, a cousin of the former Prime Minister and the editor-in-chief of The Times. Clark is surprised by the fact that Douglas-Home is constantly interrupted by newspaper staff....
Always in love
On this day, Alan Clark writes in his diary that he is ‘madly in love’. It is with Frances Holland. She is his 22-year-old Labour opponent in the elections taking place later this week. ‘Her hair is always shiny and lovely,’ writes Clark. “...
As great and talented as Alan Clark
I don’t know if it still exists, but there was a progressive activist group called Led By Donkeys that projected all kinds of political messages onto buildings. I have always wondered if they knew where the expression came from. ‘Lions led...
Lyrical about The Lady
On this day, Alan Clark refers to Margaret Thatcher in his diary. He invariably speaks of The Lady. At this moment, she has been leading the Conservative government for over two years. Things are not going well, Clark observes. It reminds h...
Norfolk Broads
At Cantley station, the train called it a day. Plumes of smoke rose from the diesel engine of the Greater Anglia that was supposed to take me from Norwich to Great Yarmouth on a sunny Monday afternoon. The stranded passengers, some with sui...
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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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