Last week when I got into the elevator at the Faculty, as the doors were closing behind me, I could just overhear from the hallway: ‘Hey, cool! That was Bob in real life!’

Shell is hiding behind a façade of sustainability while investing billions in its fossil fuel ventures. TU Delft should stop looking the other way, Vishal Onkhar writes.

VVD MP Mark Harbers pleads for new nuclear energy plants for the Netherlands. Nuclear physicist Jan Leen Kloosterman wants research money for better thorium reactors.

Was the game with which TU Delft opened the academic year a secret attempt at radical satire? Where is the debate at this overworked university, asks columnist Bob van Vliet.

Columnist Vishal Onkhar flew back to the Netherlands after having had to spend months in India. The pandemic has to be taken seriously, he thinks, but why are some so callous?