Arjen Lubach to air extra LUBACH episode on Dutch coalition crisis

Arjen Lubach’s satirical programme LUBACH will air an extra episode on Friday devoted to the political crisis in the Netherlands’ governing coalition, he announced at the start of Thursday’s show.

The programme normally focuses on one major subject on Thursdays. This week’s edition instead covered the coalition crisis in full, with Lubach joking that the usual “deep-dive Thursday” would become “deep-dive Friday”.

He also cautioned that the episode was recorded earlier than usual, so events could have moved on by the time it airs. “The cabinet may already have fallen,” he said, or the finance minister, Eelco Heinen, and climate and energy minister Rob Jetten might have come to blows in the government’s parliamentary offices.