Exclusive: Home secretary understood to have withdrawn authorisation for speaker at Unite the Kingdom rally in May

A US-based anti-Islam influencer who had been authorised to attend a far-right rally in London has been blocked from entering the UK by the home secretary.

Valentina Gomez, a self-styled Maga influencer, was given permission last week to enter via a UK electronic travel authorisation (ETA).

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Jeu de Paume, Paris
The peerless chronicler of everyday absurdity did not live to see this show, but it is a dazzling final chapter, showing his irresistible good humour growing darker

I didn’t know Martin Parr very well, but the last time I spoke with him, two months before he died in December last year, he told me about his forth coming exhibition at Jeu de Paume. He wasn’t subtle in adding that the Guardian never reviewed his exhibitions. I wonder now if he knew that the exhibition, titled Global Warning, would be his swansong. I wonder whether he knew he’d never get to see it.

Parr was always popular in France. It might be because the French loved his ability to mock the English, but in the end Parr mocked everyone, including himself. When his work was criticised in the UK as classist or sneering, Parr could cross the channel and seek refuge in a nation where no one seemed to read his work that way. The show at Jeu de Paume is set to be the museum’s most visited on record.

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Dime Store Adventures is a YouTube channel mostly about interesting minutiae of New England history though sometimes it deals with other topics, like a font on US house numbers and the state senator that wanted to ban popcorn and peanuts in movie theaters. But creator Henry Goodridge's main theme is local history and folklore, making videos that are mostly shot on location, such as one on a Massachusetts headstone that contains a murder accusation, the search for a sorcerous Rhode Island rock mentioned by Lovecraft and, maybe my favorite, the story of a controversial birthmarker in Whitingham, Vermont and Frog Rock in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. There are over 200 more videos on the channel.

This week, Sam is joined by Maddy Myers, editor-in-chief of Mothership. She’s also a co-host of the video games podcast Triple Click. 

Maddy launched Mothership with co-founder Zoë Hannah in January. It’s a queer and women-owned independent publication that focuses on gender and games. They discuss Maddy’s early days of games journalism at a (print!) alt-weekly in Boston and then at the Mary Sue, how she and Zoë decided it was time to quit their jobs and launch their own indie outlet, and the importance of owning your own work as a journalist.

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Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026 - The Guardian

Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media - the Post Games podcast

Een bestelbus is in de nacht van zondag op maandag in brand gevlogen aan het Van Ravesteyn-Erf in de wijk Stadspolders in Dordrecht. Dat gebeurde rond 01:30 uur op een parkeerplaats. Sinds het begin van dit jaar zijn er al opvallend veel auto's in vlammen opgegaan in Dordrecht.

Twee auto's zijn maandagmiddag met elkaar in botsing gekomen aan de Maassluissedijk in Vlaardingen. Voor één persoon moest een ambulance komen, maar vervoer naar het ziekenhuis was niet nodig.

Geopolitieke schokken zoals de Iran-crisis zorgen automatisch voor hogere voedselprijzen, ziet Ankie van Wersch. Maar terwijl we boeren vragen te investeren in een minder schokgevoelig voedselsysteem, leggen we de rekening ook volledig bij hen neer.