Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight

It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the moon in more than half a century.

Instead, last week began with some difficult questions in Congress about the Trump administration’s unpopular plan to slash the space agency’s budget. It ended at the White House with the president appearing to poke fun at his prominent ears, watched by four bemused Artemis II astronauts waiting in vain for any question about their historic mission.

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This simple Spanish classic will convince even staunch fava-phobics to give beans a chance

I always feel sorry for broad beans, the lumpy cousin perpetually overshadowed by the charms of slender, elegant asparagus and sweet, bouncy, little peas. They’re in season at roughly the same time, but asparagus in particular gets all the glory, perhaps because so many of us are scarred by childhood experiences of large, grey wrinkly beans served in a floury white sauce (my own parents are so averse to the things that I vividly remember the first time I came across them on a Sunday roast as a teenager and had to ask a friend what they were).

Unsurprising though it is, given our general scepticism with regard to pulses, the British lack of enthusiasm for the broad bean is a particular shame, because it’s been an important part of the European diet since ancient times. As the Oxford Companion to Food explains, however, they are also linked to a “superstitious dread” possibly associated with “a general belief that the souls of the dead might migrate into beans”. Having eaten a lot of the things in the process of writing this piece, I can reassure nervous readers that no haunting has yet taken place, and that this Spanish way with them is all but guaranteed to convince even the staunchest of fava phobics. Go on: give them a try.

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Jamie Oliver’s head of restaurants is optimistic about new recipe of smaller site, slimmed-down menu and no burgers

When Jamie’s Italian crashed and burned in 2019, with the company in £83m of debt and causing 1,000 job losses, no one imagined the celebrity chef would try again.

But seven years later, Jamie Oliver has opened a flagship site under the same name in Leicester Square in central London, and believes he has a new recipe for success: a smaller restaurant with a slimmed-down menu, which features cheaper cuts of meat and no burgers.

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Updates from the first day of the Crucible final
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As for Wu, I’d be staggered if he ends his career without winning this event more than once. I’d be lying if I said he isn’t my favourite – the way he plays, it’s impossible to take your eyes off him. He attacks the game in the way we should all attack life, however trepidatious we feel, and if it doesn’t work out, he quickly gets over himself, heals, then has at it again. Mates: if ever you’re stuck, think Wu.

Shaun, of course, won this title unseeded, aged just 22, in 2005. Since then, he’s lost four finals, but he’ll fancy himself – ok, he almost always fancies himself – this time around. Already a triple crown champion, he knows that if he can add a second one of these, he’ll ascend another level in the annals of the game, not quite up there on tier two with your Selbzeseses, Williamseseseses and Hingginses of this world, but above pretty much everyone else.

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Terwijl er nauwelijks beweging zit in de gesprekken tussen Teheran en Washington rijst de vraag of de stilstand wordt veroorzaakt door spanningen binnen het Iraanse onderhandelingsteam. Wie speelt welke rol binnen de delegatie? En wat zegt dit over de krachtsverhoudingen binnen het Iraanse regime?

De Nederlandse componist Willem Jeths liet het genre pianoconcert al sinds de jaren ’90 liggen. Maar voor pianiste Ellen Corver klom hij opnieuw in de pen. Opnieuw verklankt Jeths de binnenwereld van vrouwen.

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(File: 20260501_010634549) Ulladulla fossils are world-class, 270-million-year-old marine fossils located on the rocky shores of Ulladulla Harbour. The Permian-period fossils include gastropods, brachiopods, and bivalves found on easily accessible rock platforms.

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(File: 20260501_010907370) Ulladulla fossils are world-class, 270-million-year-old marine fossils located on the rocky shores of Ulladulla Harbour. The Permian-period fossils include gastropods, brachiopods, and bivalves found on easily accessible rock platforms.

i-lenticularis (NO GRAPHICS) has added a photo to the pool:

(File: 20260501_00010546930) Ulladulla fossils are world-class, 270-million-year-old marine fossils located on the rocky shores of Ulladulla Harbour. The Permian-period fossils include gastropods, brachiopods, and bivalves found on easily accessible rock platforms.