ARNHEM/UTRECHT (ANP) - In Arnhem heeft de politie tijdens koningsnacht 17 mensen aangehouden. Mensen werden bijvoorbeeld gearresteerd voor mishandeling, verstoring van de openbare orde en belediging. "Handhavers van de gemeente hadden hun handen vooral vol aan wildplassers", meldt de gemeente. Er waren minder mensen in de stad dan vorig jaar.

Dit jaar bezochten tussen de 150.000 en 175.000 mensen Arnhem, vorig jaar waren dat er ongeveer 190.000. Naast de EHBO-tent, waar gedurende de nacht 23 minderjarigen zijn behandeld, was er dit jaar voor het eerst een 'Safe Tent'. Daar konden mensen terecht die zich niet veilig voelden. "De tent werd goed bezocht", aldus de gemeente.

Ook in Utrecht waren er enkele aanhoudingen. Een woordvoerder van de gemeente meldt dat koningsnacht daar "druk maar beheersbaar" was. Op sommige plekken was het volgens de woordvoerder onrustig met vechtpartijen en opstootjes, maar over het algemeen was er een "goede sfeer".

​Vergeet koekhappen, de grabbelton, plak tatoeages, blikken gooien of oude meuk verkopen; een tankstation openen op een kleedje is dit jaar dé manier om eens flink te cashen op Koningsdag.

Vraag eens aan je ouders of buurman of ze ergens nog een groot olievat in een schuurtje hebben staan en raffineer dat tot diesel of benzine met een flink vuur en een mondkapje. Het enige wat je dan nog ergens op de kop moet tikken is een pompzuil, een tankpistool, een brandstofslang, een leuk kleedje en een stuk karton om de prijs op te schrijven. Ga met een mooie drie euro per liter net ietsjes boven de prijs zitten en binnen lopen maar!

Als je nog wat extra wilt bijverdienen, kan je nog wat bosjes foeilelijke bloemen, shag of een broodje bal verkopen. Veel succes en vergeet niet waarvoor je het doet: een middagje naast de pomp en je kan de rest van het jaar gratis bier tanken!

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The horror of sports lessons put three in 10 of British 50 to 65-year-olds off exercise for life. I wish I’d known sooner that movement can feel so good

Surprising news: three in 10 50- to 65-year-olds in a recent Age UK survey said school sports memories had put them off exercise “for life”. Only three in 10? When it comes to exercise, there are surely two kinds of people – the handful who enjoyed school PE lessons and everyone else.

I’m guessing the first category are out smashing their marathon PBs, meaning we indoor sorts can safely share war stories. Mine: forced to walk half an hour to the sports field in the tiny synthetic pleated skirt that was mysteriously designated mandatory sportswear, heckled by local perverts and youths shouting “jolly hockey sticks”, then skulking, motionless, in the mud, avoiding various projectiles while being shouted at by the sporty girls and contemplated with bafflement by (mostly benign) PE teachers.

Secret Service director says security succeeded in stopping shooter before he could do further harm but others disagree

The shooting in the White House correspondents’ gala has prompted questions over security with some asking how a shooter was able to get close to where Donald Trump and many other senior administration officials were gathered and many others praising the actions of law enforcement that swiftly stopped the attack.

As details about the shooting at the Washington Hilton continued to surface, the alleged shooter Cole Tomas Allen, 31, mocked an “insane” lack of security at the Washington dinner in a manifesto reportedly send to his family 10 minutes before his assault started.

I suspect the main reason they avoid criticizing Israel is that they believe that would be antisemitic. But this is both dangerous and wrong

In an extraordinary article published on 7 April, the New York Times described how Donald Trump decided to go to war with Iran. It is highly unusual for the White House Situation Room to be used for in-person meetings with foreign leaders. But this time, the Situation Room was not just used for a meeting with a foreign leader. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin, Netanyahu took over the presentation space, backed on a screen by the leader of the Mossad as well as Israeli military officials.

As the New York Times describes the scene, “Arrayed visually behind Mr. Netanyahu, they created the image of a wartime leader surrounded by his team.” The article makes it clear that Netanyahu’s “hard sell” of a quick war was pivotal to the US president’s decision to partner with Israel in attacking Iran.

Viktor Nordenskiöld’s film follows Ukraine’s deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna as she negotiates her country’s path into the EU, but lacks some of the rigour needed

After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna embarked on the herculean challenge of steering her country’s pathway into the European Union. Shot over the course of two years, Viktor Nordenskiöld’s documentary portrait closely chronicles her race against time, as the war escalates.

Always on the move, Stefanishyna is often seen on trains or in the back of cars, as she and her staff attend seemingly endless meetings with EU officials and other world leaders. Working towards the deadline of 14 December, 2023, the date on which the European Council would decide on Ukraine’s accession, Stefanishyna is under immense pressure at home and abroad. Around the same time that a proposed bill concerning national minorities hits a snag in the Ukrainian parliament, politician Viktor Orbán, then the prime minister of Hungary, publicly voices his opposition to the enlargement of the EU.

After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attention

After a long day of looking at screens for work, I used to go to bed and stare at my phone until I fell asleep. When not doomscrolling news headlines, I’d crash out to hateful comments on social media or revisit workplace dramas via mobile versions of Teams and Slack. I was always plugged in.

It was a ritual that would start well before bedtime. As the evening wound down, I’d surf algorithms for hours on end, barely paying attention to whatever television programme was on in the background, only half-listening to conversations around me. Whether it was the incessantly dystopian news cycle, toxic opinions on pop culture, or posts railing against obtuse LinkedIn speak, there was always another online scab to pick.