The two case studies in this essay call attention to the Ghent newspaper Ghendtsche Post-tydingen (1667-1723) as a neglected source of information, not only on English theatrical matters but also-and primarily-on the political significance of such news items. Evidently, Ghendtsche Post-tydingen evinced a lively interest in developments both on the macro level (i.e. national and international politics) and on the micro level (i.e. socio-cultural news). Focusing on two sets of items published around the watershed Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, we argue that the seemingly trivial "human interest stories'' that find their way into GP offer us unsuspected but valuable insights into the sympathies and allegiances of particular groups of people in the Low Countries. As such, these news reports from London on the socio-cultural display surrounding different types of entertainment actually functioned as veiled indicators of political agency.