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‘Really excited’: What to expect when ‘busy’ Penarth pub gardens reopen on Monday MANY pub owners in Penarth will be reopening their pub gardens on Monday, April 26, when coronavirus restrictions on outdoor hospitality ease in Wales.  Pub-goers have waited months for this day, and now they will be allowed to have a pint outdoors as coronavirus rates drop.  Hayley Clare, bar manager, and Stephen Newman, chairman, at Penarth Athletic Club said that they have been ‘busy’ setting up the outdoor pub garden ready for when they can welcome back customers and members on Monday.  ...

Budget to bolster women’s super savings Save Share The Morrison government is exploring options enabling women to bolster their retirement savings, after deciding against trying to cap the superannuation guarantee to stop it from rising to 12 per cent. With the Prime Minister pledging a female-friendly budget on May 11, the expenditure review committee is looking at ways to enable women to top up their super while stopping couples from exploiting such a scheme. Women typically retire with lower super balances than men because they earn less on average and take more time off to raise chil...

columns   Photo: DutchNews.nl The Dutch are very fond of international comparisons if they come out well, but when it comes to coronavirus, they see the Netherlands’ position as one of  ‘superior failure’, writes Ben Coates. About a year ago, I became a Dutch citizen. In the age of corona, it was a strange experience: I cycled to the city hall through empty streets, with an ambulance siren wailing in the distance, then waited behind a glass screen for a while before being handed an envelope of new identity documents. There was no ceremony, no handshake with the mayor, no national a...

DutchNews podcast – The This Debate Should Have Been An Email Edition – Week 3 Photo: Robin Utrecht/ANP The government caved to pressure this week to bring in a 9pm curfew after five hours of furious debate about what time it should begin. All fingers were pointing at Mark Rutte in the aftermath of the child benefits scandal as his practice of holding meetings in secret came under scrutiny. The entire world of speed skating has moved to Friesland for winter, while the big names in chess descend on Wijk aan Zee. And we speak to writer Ben Coates about the state of the Dutch coronavirus st...

Dutch politicians say storming of the Capitol is a warning and a lesson Supporters of US president Donald Trump protest in the US Capitol. Photo: Saul Loeb AFP Dutch politicians and leader writers have been responding to the overnight violence in Washington and the death of at least one person as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Prime minister Mark Rutte said on Twitter while the Capitol was still under siege that events unfolding in the US were ‘horrible’. Horrible images from Washington D.C. Dear @realDonaldTrump, recognise @JoeBiden as the next president today. Dutch foreign affa...