"The VVD MPs met the morning after the elections next door, in the Johan de Witthuis," interior designer Arie Alderliesten told us. "They looked crestfallen."

In his shop on the Kneuterdijk in The Hague, publisher Annerieke Simeone launched the annual edition of her magazine Bij Ons In De Residentie, full of entrepreneurs from the court city, such as the Hague photographer Flore Zoé. Annerieke had some news: she is starting her own publishing company, Media Fresca.

"We are going to sell our restaurant Aan de Zweth (*) in Schipluiden," Joris Peters reported. "I want to move up, fewer tables." PR man Gérald Rensink opined, "Dilan has done well. After Lubbers, the CDA lost 20 seats."