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Out of touch
I’ve had my first five years of being a management consultant. When I started doing this, I expected to end up in a different place in society — in board rooms — where I could work on grappling with the big issues that politics has been going on about all my life. But strangely enough,…
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"Facebook riots" in Haren were not Facebook riots
Yesterday, results were published by a committee that was tasked with investigating riots in the village of Haren. Part of that task was to study what role Facebook played in these riots. They didn’t do this. Instead, they analysed Facebook posts. September last year, Rob Bats, mayor of the municipality of Haren, reacted hysterically to…