​Jort (28) staat met zijn vriendengroep op Schiphol voor een lang weekend Valencia, als hij er vlak voor de security aan herinnerd wordt dat vloeistoffen van meer dan 100 milliliter niet mee mogen in de handbagage.

“Fak, volgens mij heb ik mijn shampoo ingepakt," roept Jort verschrikt, waarna hij zijn koffertje openritst en inderdaad een grote fles Kruidvat Active Fresh Men 2-In-1 Shampoo & Shower ziet. Nog voor iemand hem kan tegenhouden klikt hij de dop open en begint hij het zepige goedje naar binnen te klokken.

"Die regels slaan nergens op," brengt Jort tussen de slokjes uit. "Alsof ik hiermee een bom in elkaar kan knutselen." Zijn vrienden proberen hem nog te laten stoppen en zeggen dat ze in Valencia gewoon nieuwe shampoo kunnen kopen, maar daar wil Jort niets van weten. "Die fles was nog bijna vol joh, zonde om alles weg te gooien," zegt hij terwijl het zeepsop uit zijn mond komt. "Ik heb geen andere keuze dan dit nu weg te tikken."

Halverwege de fles begint Jort bleek te zien, maar hij stelt zijn vrienden gerust: "Desnoods haal ik zo een flesje water om het weg te spoelen.”

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The Guardian’s landmark poll of the greatest novels published in English required collaboration and innovation across multiple desks. This is the story of how it came together

Everyone was asking each other the same questions. How many have you read? Which ones are you going to read now? What must-reads do you think are missing?

Matt Freeman, a 46-year-old designer from London, resolved to finally get around to Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie: “I’ve had it on my shelf for years – a clothbound edition because I thought that if I invested in a really great copy, I’d read it. And now I’ll finally do so – it’ll mean I can tick another one off this list.”

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These compulsively snacky salt-crusted spuds are a Canary Islands favourite – and an unusual but excellent way to cook our own early-summer crop

If you’ve ever visited the Canary Islands, you’ll be familiar with papas arrugadas – often translated, somewhat unappetisingly, as “wrinkly potatoes” – which pop up on every menu there. And not, generally, as a side dish, but as a standalone snack to be enjoyed with drinks. I do love a place that takes the spud seriously, and perhaps it’s not that much of a surprise, given that the first potatoes to reach Europe passed through the Canaries on their way from Peru, which, along with the similarity between the rocky soils of the Andes and the islands, probably accounts for the long history of cultivation.

Though many unusual early varieties are still grown for local sale, the Canaries imports both seed and fresh potatoes from the UK (king edward and arran banner have become quinegua and arambana). Once upon a time, ships would leave the islands laden with winter tomatoes for the British market, and return full of tubers. For this recipe, however, you’ll need new season potatoes with thin, delicate skins, and small enough to cook whole. Cooked in salty water until the salt crystals cling to them like frost, they’re served with a fiery dipping sauce that reflects the strong Portuguese and African influences on Canarian cuisine: an unusual but excellent way to celebrate our own early-summer crop.

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Experts hail daraxonrasib as ‘gamechanger’ for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer

A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world’s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a “gamechanger” and one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades.

Currently, there are few treatments for pancreatic cancer, and most do little or nothing to help. For decades, scientists have worked relentlessly trying to find clever solutions for a form of cancer that is often found late. More than half of patients are only diagnosed after it has spread.

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The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world

In a 1965 speech justifying the war in Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson argued that the goal was to ensure “every country can shape its own destiny” since only in such a world could the US secure its own freedom. However, he also admitted “such were infirmities of man that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace”.

It was the kind of elegant justification of the country’s moral mission to which successive US presidential speechwriters have turned at times of war.

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Hoe ontworstel je je, als vrouw, aan een onrealistisch schoonheidsideaal? Met het charisma van een popster zoekt theatermaker Naomi Velissariou in ‘Sexodus’ naar een uitweg.

Op theaterfestival O. staan bij zowel Club Satelliet als Club Gewalt moeders op het toneel te worstelen met de wereld. Duik je terug in klassieke rolpatronen of deal je op andere manieren met je stress?