No English stable has won the greatest prize in the sport since 2015 but the selection has all the attributes required

It is more than a decade since a Grand National winner was trained in an English stable, as Lucinda Russell, successful twice since 2017 from her yard in Scotland’s County of Kinross, is the only trainer to break the Irish stranglehold since Oliver Sherwood’s success with Many Clouds in 2015. The home side put up a much-improved performance at last month’s Cheltenham festival, however, and Jagwar (4.00), one of two major contenders from Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero’s stable 50 miles from the track, could extend the English revival in the biggest race of the season on Saturday.

Jagwar will head to Aintree with all of the attributes you could want to see in a modern-day National winner. He has youth on his side at seven years of age and remains open to improvement with just eight starts over fences on his record to date.

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Let’s hope it’s just a phase

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Amy Taylor, Margot Robbie and Barkaa are among the Australian pop cultural figures helping to reclaim the sheila archetype

“Security, will you let me in your pub?” pleads Amy Taylor in the opening lines of the song Security. “I’m not looking for trouble, I’m looking for love.” The request is made in her signature Aussie drawl, something that musicians attempting to break into the international market would attempt to disguise in decades previous. Yet for the Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman, everything from her peroxide mullet to proudly “bogan” background has become an important hallmark.

And she’s not the only one. Although Taylor is singular in her tendency to chuck a squat in promotional art or declare that “the dole’s going up and every pub gets a million dollars” in Aria acceptance speeches, she’s just one of a wave of Australian pop cultural figures helping to reclaim the sheila archetype. Think world champion surfer Molly Picklum, the queen of stoke, who drops f-bombs as frequently as she drops into the gnarliest waves on the planet. Or groundbreaking Indigenous rapper Barkaa, whose line “I ain’t cryin’ over budoo unless that budoo makes me money” from King Brown is now shouted like a battle cry at her sold-out shows.

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Millions of accounts have been deactivated since the ban came into effect in December, but Noah Jones found it was easily circumvented

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Since Australia’s under-16s social media ban began four months ago, Noah Jones’s online experience has been “pretty much the same”.

The 15-year-old Sydneysider says he hasn’t been kicked off any social media platform since the policy came into effect late last year.

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The California-based private research institution is at least the 19th Western university, educational alliance or program to have been labeled “undesirable” over the past five years.

Ziekenhuizen kunnen door een hack via hun software van Chipsoft al dagen geen contact maken met de buitenwereld, zoals voor verwijzingen. Interne functies werken nog wel. De meeste ziekenhuizen gebruiken diensten van dit bedrijf.

Dat het koningspaar en Jetten uitgerekend nu naar Amerika gaan, is puur toeval. Wat begon als diplomatieke ontmoeting van het koningspaar, symboliseert voor Jetten hoe de eerste zeven weken van zijn premierschap door internationale onrust worden getekend. „Het koningshuis is een belangrijk instrument in de diplomatieke gereedschapskist om in politiek gevoelige tijden de relaties juist te verzachten.”

At Copenhagen Contemporary, Kengo Kuma and his team have honed in on the Japanese concept of komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees. The monumental, site-specific installation “Earth / Tree” harnesses this fleeting condition through a suspended canopy of wooden slats.

Curved with a central opening, the diaphonous structure floats above a brick platform and a pile of rubble. These two organic materials bridge Nordic and Japanese cultures, which both value craftsmanship and continuity with the landscape.

Kuma—who was recently awarded the bid to design the new National Gallery in London—often focuses on “soft architecture,” a mode of working entwined with the environment and people who engage with the space. “Earth / Tree” translates this concept into the Danish museum, where it’s on view through February 21, 2027.

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Arnhem Land rock art raises questions about mainland Tasmanian tigers. Newly documented rock art in Arnhem Land has raised questions about how long Tasmanian tigers lived on the mainland before they were wiped out.

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Ja alles leuk en aardig met die Snoep Hond maar na het iconische Doggystyle (1993) was al de rest natuurlijk meer van hetzelfde. Sinds 2002 is-ie echter weer terug op Death Row Records (sterker nog, heeft-ie zelf gekocht) en daarmee zit er weer wat pit in. Blijft natuurlijk wel een hypercommercieel weedrokend tv-figuur die schaatsfans uit Staphorst van de tribune afjoekelt omdat hij schijtlollig moet doen, maar lollig genoeg bezingt hij juist dat in de track 'Leave that Dogg alone' in de track hierboven. Dat zullen we dan maar doen: hem met rust laten door het verder niet te luisteren, u kunt beter popcorn in de magnetron gooien of ananas op uw pizza doen. Op een festival zien we hem daarentegen graag terug. Ook nieuw deze week, voor we aan het BIER gaan: Melechesh, de nieuwe favoriete band van onze moderator GU. Assyrische black metal uit Jeruzalem based in Amsterdam met een gitarist genaamd Moloch. GU daarover: "Klinkt heerlijk 666, soort Morbid Angel maar met iets meer melodie." Tot slot is het de geboortedag van de grote Leo Vroman. Succes & proost.

Enter Shikari (geschreeuw)

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Leo Vroman - In bed

Het is mij een droom te ontwaken
door een hand op het haar en de slapen
en de streling van zaaien en rapen
meer dromen te voelen maken;

hoor in het omhullend geruis
van een adem de zee, de wind
op een lang, leeg strand, en een kind
ver van het ouderlijk huis -

Zij vroeg mij waar we nu waren.
Het was herfst in mijn droom en ook buiten
bewegen zich dorre blaren
door de lucht, en over de ruiten.

Joe Jackson (kringloopwinkel-platenbakicoon)

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Birdlegs (knallen)

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Long Distance Calling (rammen)

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The Maine (knuffelrock)

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Leo Gassmann (Italiaanse seksmuziek)

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Wu Lyf (rock, maar wel okee)

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Cactus Lee (gezellige americana)

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Pictish Trail (pop)

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Lime Garden (indie)

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Squarepusher (elektrogedoe)

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T'Pau (poprock maar zowaar best aardig)

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I am the Avalanche (punk)

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As Everything Unfolds (GU)

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Melvins (punk/grunge/schreeuw legends)

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Bilmuri (afgrijselijke Amerikaanse rock)

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My New Band Believe (rock)

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Ella Langley (kuntrie)

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Archspire (GU)

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Bodysnatcher (GU)

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Immolation (GU)

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Metal Church (GU)

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Vomitory (GU)

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MELECHESH (Nieuwe favoriete band GU: Assyrische black metal uit Jeruzalem based in Amsterdam met een gitarist genaamd Moloch)

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