Matthias Harbers has added a photo to the pool:

Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Barbara McQuade’s book is a piercing exposé of how Trump is eroding democracy by turning the US into a mafia state

“I believe in America.”

So says Amerigo Bonasera, a humble funeral director, in the opening scene of the 1972 film The Godfather. As Barbara McQuade recounts at the start of her new book, Bonasera has come to the shadowy office of Vito Corleone to ask him to avenge a brutal attack on his daughter. Ultimately, Corleone agrees, whispering: “Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me.”

Excoriating article under Caroline Dinenage’s name remains on ConservativeHome website

It was a crisis that toppled a BBC director general and his head of news. After contentious accusations of bias by a former external adviser, Michael Prescott, both Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit the corporation.

At the height of the media storm that ensued last November, the corporation was struck by another blow. A key figure in scrutinising the BBC – the chair of the Commons culture, media and sport committee – delivered an equally damning verdict.

Immersed in the daily churn of Washington DC, I found an unexpected source of hope in the Knicks’ improbable season

When it comes to the length of my relationship with the New York Knicks, I’m more Taylor Swift than Timothée Chalamet.

But it was inevitable. For months, Knicks fever was slowly drawing me in. A close friend said the team was singularly healing her from a breakup. Another from depression. I had inadvertently been subjected to playoff games through friends, or the daily turmoil of them, through colleagues.

Shadows glimpsed on a wall at sunset inspired this evocative portrait of the photographer and his dog, Lolly

Lolly – a chow-chow-cocker spaniel mix – was Tony Hertz’s dog for 15 years. “She had long black hair with a little white on her mouth, ears, eyebrows and feet, and a partially marbled tongue. She was quite cute,” Hertz says.

Hertz and Lolly were living in Pismo Beach, California, when he took this shot. At the time he was working on a photography series and book based around shadows, and he had taken her along on one of his regular sunset walks. Over a career spanning three decades, Hertz has photographed queens, popes and a president, but this was an attempt at something more personal. The photo was taken on a grassy area next to a Walmart. As Hertz sat down on a bench for a breather, he noticed in their shadows that Lolly was looking directly at him. “I positioned my phone so it couldn’t be seen in the shadow, composed the shot and then looked toward Lolly so that our profiles would be turned to each other,” he says. Hertz often wears his brimmed hats when seeking out new elements for his series, “to make them consistent with a little noir look”.

The country is ready to blow away decades of dashed hopes and celebrate, with marching bands and all-night parties

Scotland is leaning into one its most treasured traditions: embracing the hope and anxiety of a football World Cup, with a healthy dose of self-deprecating style.

There are brash new tartans, an Edinburgh bar offering free Irn-Bru-infused “fiery ginger” beers for patrons with red hair, a collaboration between Scottish whisky firms and a Brazilian distiller, and all-night parties in nightclubs repurposed as fanzones.

Soldiers arrested university student Sama Safi, 20, along with members of Palestinian women’s national soccer team

A 20-year-old Palestinian American woman has been held in Israeli military detention for nearly two weeks after Israeli soldiers stormed her family home in a pre-dawn raid on 2 June.

Sama Safi, a psychology student at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, has not been charged with any crimes. A spokesperson for the Israeli military said she and three other women detained around the same time were arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities”.

U hoeft zo niet te leven maar u doet het toch omdat universiteiten, media en politici u haten btw einde inhoudelijk commentaar. Over het bovenstaande voorval te Burnley schrijft de BBC: "Een 17-jarig meisje wordt in het ziekenhuis behandeld nadat ze in haar nek is gestoken. Gewapende agenten van de politie van Lancashire werden naar de plaats delict in Brierfield, nabij Nelson, gestuurd en arresteerden een 30-jarige man op verdenking van poging tot moord. De politie meldde dat ze om 15:06 uur BST naar Wood Street was geroepen na meldingen dat een meisje in de achterkant van haar nek was gestoken." Het slachtoffer zou buiten levensgevaar verkeren. Nou, op naar de volgende! Was er ondertussen maar een troostende, nieuwe GeenStijl Premium Podcast het verband tussen afkomst en compatibiliteit met Westerse samenlevingen. (Doen we vanaf nu dus om de week hè!)

Naar verluidt de vermeende dader onder voorbehoud

A 17 year old girl is in critical condition after being stabbed in the throat in Burnley, UK. Her assailant has been apprehended. pic.twitter.com/MFqfsCY2nY

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) June 12, 2026

Ja laten we het eens hebben over het verband tussen afkomst en compatibiliteit!

Maar laten we het geen patroon noemen!

Dit gebeurde afgelopen 4 april btw

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