Column Jan Greijn - World Region: You

Whether Joop den Uyl was right-wing or left-wing when he played table tennis? I don't remember. My first encounter with such a political figure immediately revealed the inner workings of the Binnenhof village. In the early 1980s, I found Joop den Uyl playing table tennis in a small hall at Nieuwspoort, the journalist center. Den Uyl enthusiastically went from left to right, making things very difficult for his opponent, a young newspaper reporter.