Bert Wagendorp
Bert Wagendorp was born in the Netherlands in 1956. After working three years at regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant, he worked at daily De Volkskrant on the sports and international pages. For the same paper he has been also been London correspondent. Nowadays he writes a column on national and international issues which appears three times a week.
Updated: 28 May 2009
The Dutch Ministry of Justice has announced that due to a chronic shortage of criminals it has been forced to close eight prisons. For the last few years, crime has fallen in the Netherlands, which isn’t all good news for some, observes columnist Bert Wagendorp.