Wie wil weten waarom het voor Donald Trump zo vanzelfsprekend is Groenland op te eisen en waarom de Denen er zo stevig op reageren, kan terecht bij twee nieuwe boeken die de geopolitieke strijd om Groenland in een breder verband plaatsen.
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Aan de rand van het Friese Akkrum staat het rijksmonumentale Coopersburg, in 1901 geopend als bejaardenhuis. Een bijzonder gebouw, maar het verhaal erachter is minstens zo fascinerend. Stichter Frank Cooper werd geboren in Akkrum, vertrok naar de VS en maakte daar fortuin. Alleen deze zaterdag, tijdens Open Monumentendag, is Coopersburg geopend voor publiek.
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De Duitse bondskanselier Merz noemt de rechts-radicale partij AfD een gevaar voor het land en benadrukt dat de plannen van de partij neerkomen op etnische zuivering. AfD hekelt de manier waarop Merz inzoomt op dat ene punt. “Hij pakt gewoon wat hem goed uitkomt. Rassenzuivering is voor ons maar een klein deel van waar we voor staan. We willen zoveel meer dan alleen dat.”
AfD-lijsttrekker Ulrich Siegmund noemt het ‘typisch’. “Dat haalt dan weer de media: ‘AfD wil etnische zuivering.’ Lekker catchy natuurlijk, maar dat is natuurlijk lang niet het hele verhaal. Je hoort nooit eens ‘AfD wil etnische zuivering, rechten van lhbti’ers inperken, kinderen met een beperking weren uit regulier onderwijs, gesegregeerde klassen maken voor kinderen van vluchtelingen, uitwisselingsprogramma’s opzetten met Russische scholen en extreemrechts gedachtegoed verder normaliseren.’ Ja, jammer vind ik dat.”
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People from across the US and around the world pay their respects at memorial to victims of the terrorist attacks
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time,” reads an inscription at the the Ground Zero national September 11 memorial and museum, quoting from The Aeneid and cast in 15in letters made from the steel of the twin towers, which fell 29 minutes apart in a terrorist attack a quarter century ago.
It took a decade for the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan to be completed. It is composed of two dark granite basins on the footprints of the original towers with water cascading from their lips and the names of all 2,977 who died as a result of four aircraft hijackings inscribed on bronze panels around it.
Continue reading...Whether you go for traditional champagne or sherry, or branch out with muscadet and picpoul, an appetite-whetting glass of wine will set you up for the evening ahead
Beginnings are important. As a writer, I’m all too aware of this: from the right introduction, the rest tends to flow. The same logic applies to drinks: a good beginning eases proceedings. For this reason, I am unbendingly particular about how I take my morning coffee and, if I’m drinking, what form an evening’s aperitif should take. Life’s too short for bad beverages, after all.
An aperitif is arguably less a specific drink than an appetite-whetting moment with a glass of something. But what? Typically, when it comes to wine, an aperitif will be light and crisp, with any fruit character at the more green or citrussy end of the spectrum. Brioche-y sparkling wine, be that champagne, crémant or something English, and dry sherry such as fino and manzanilla, with their savoury notes, are traditional choices to ready your palate for food.
Continue reading...After a year of frenzied conjecture, the new hosts putting the razzle back into Strictly are Johannes Radebe, Emma Willis and Josh Widdicombe. They talk night sweats, sparkly pants – and the hilarious fake show cooked up to fool the press
Johannes Radebe, one of the three new presenters of Strictly Come Dancing, can barely contain his glee. Asked where they were when they heard they’d got the job, Radebe is quick to wind up his co-hosts. “We’ll never forget that call,” he grins. “It was a weekday afternoon and I was at home, preparing for that night’s performance of [West End musical] Kinky Boots. But go on, tell the Guardian where you two were.”
“We all got the same message, asking us to jump on a Zoom,” says Emma Willis. “We didn’t know if it was good news or bad news.” Josh Widdicombe picks up the story: “I thought, ‘Surely they wouldn’t tell me to my face if I hadn’t got it? They’d just text my agent or something.’”
Continue reading...As the French Canadian superstar returns for her first concerts since she was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, we count down the best of an unabashedly romantic catalogue. Wind machines at the ready!
When Céline Dion’s era as a foolproof hitmaker ended, she seemed weirdly liberated and more willing to take risks. Witness the video for Ashes: an impressively atmospheric ballad from the soundtrack to Deadpool 2, in which she gently mocks her own image in the company of Ryan Reynolds, in character as the antihero.
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