Van de 104 wethouders in de 22 gemeenten in de regio Rijnmond waar de nieuwe bestuursploeg bekend is, zijn er 32 vrouw. Daarmee ligt het aandeel vrouwelijke wethouders net iets boven het landelijke gemiddelde. De verschillen tussen gemeenten zijn groot.

At the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

In 1986, 131 years after the Daily Telegraph was founded, its editor, Max Hastings, wrote a memo to senior colleagues about the newspaper’s nature and purpose. “The Daily Telegraph is … ‘nice’,” he said, “in the business of reassurance, of providing confirmation each morning for our readers that their world is looking pretty safe and stable.” He went on: “We are not a strident campaigning newspaper – our business each day is to seek to give our readers the fullest possible information about what is happening in the world, and to suggest what it might mean.”

In practice, under Hastings and many other Telegraph editors, this ethos produced a journalism of pervasive but usually understated conservatism: often focused on the English countryside, the value of hierarchy and tradition, the pleasures of seasonal pursuits such as foxhunting and gardening, the interests of farmers and retired military men – and cautionary tales about more reckless lives gone wrong, often presented through enjoyably detailed reports from the divorce courts. The Torygraph, as many non-readers called it, could be inward-looking and “numbingly dull”, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the historian of British conservatism, but it was “thoroughly respectable”. Many of its most renowned figures, such as Hastings’s predecessor as editor, Bill Deedes, were “mildness itself”.

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In het wild kunnen vuursalamanders zo’n twintig jaar oud worden. Maar dat lukt in Nederland alleen met hulp van vrijwilligers. Een nachtelijke zoektocht naar larven in het Bunderbos.

Er is een nieuwe route in drugsland: via de Atlantische Oceaan komen grote hoeveelheden cocaïne Europa binnen. De ingrediënten: volle zee en supersnelle speedbootjes.

Drugssmokkelaars hebben op de Atlantische oceaan een nieuwe logistieke keten gebouwd tussen Zuid-Amerika, West-Afrika en Europa. De Franse overheid zet de marine in tegen speedboten die met 130 kilometer per uur drugs aan land brengen en wil hulp. Nederland kent het probleem, maar wacht op een officieel verzoek voor inzet van de marine.

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The Montecito was built in 1935 with 95 units at a cost of $1 million. Set on a hill overlooking the city, the Montecito is the highest building in Hollywood. It has a private swimming pool, two subterranean garages and a parking lot.The building is a classic Art Deco design with Mayan influences and windows arranged in vertical blinds. In 1946, it was sold for $600,000. In 1954, it was sold again, this time by Isadore and Libby Teacher to Howard Fox and Harry Wyatt.

The Montecito was home to several future movie stars, especially New York based actors while working in Hollywood. It was Ronald Reagan’s first residence when he moved to Hollywood; Reagan lived at the Montecito from June 1937 to late 1938. Reagan was said to have been roommates at the Montecito with Mickey Rooney. Other celebrities who have lived at the Montecito include James Cagney, George C. Scott, Montgomery Clift, Geraldine Page, Don Johnson, Sal Mineo and Ben Vereen.

AI is niet onvermijdelijk; ze wordt onvermijdelijk gemaakt – zonder echte discussie, zonder gezonde marktwerking en zonder instemming. ‘Sorry,’ zegt hoofdrolspeler Ava Daniels in de comedyserie Hacks, ‘maar dit is gewoon technologische verkrachting.’

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