Halbe Zijlstra should fund Culture Card after all.

It was the subject he had lied the hardest about, as we demonstrated a year ago, but the country's most hated state secretary did not care. Despite its great success, the culture card for schoolchildren had to be killed off, and on spurious grounds. Now the card has been saved by the chamber. A majority voted for a motion by CDA and PvdA, which forced the cabinet to contribute a small part of the missing money (6 tonnes) after all.

So the secretary of state who recently declared that he had heard no arguments against his draconian cultural cuts now has to give butter to the fish. After all, he praised the organisation behind the card for their effort to save the card for three quarters, but did not convert that honour into a contribution that would support other investors in their effort.

So now it does.