President Trump had het nog zo beloofd: geen nieuwe oorlogen. Toch ontketende hij een nieuwe bombardementencampagne in Iran. Een volgende stap in een lange geschiedenis…

Eerst dreigde de PVV in de Eerste Kamer tegen de ‘eigen’ asielwetten te stemmen, nu probeert die partij om de wetten via een truc onderuit te halen. De PVV stemt vóór, maar kiest voor zijn oude strategie van chaos. Zo kan de partij de schuld afwentelen op anderen.

In twee natuurgebieden fladdert hij nog, de zeldzame grote vuurvlinder. Om de populatie te vergroten moeten die twee gebieden met elkaar verbonden worden. „We willen dat onze vlinders amoureuze bedoelingen krijgen met de vlinders aan de overkant, in Overijssel.”

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Hee maar het blijkt dus een ontzettend slecht plan om allemaal labiele bejaarden te laten beslissen over essentieel beleid dat tot stand is gekomen na intensief democratisch debat. De PVV dreigt nu in de Eerste Kamer tégen de novelle van David van Weel/Bart van den Brink over het niet illegaal maken van hulp aan illegalen, al dan niet in de vorm van een kommetje soep, te stemmen, maar dan gaan CDA en SGP in de Eerste Kamer juist weer tegen de asielwetten stemmen, waar de PVV dus wel voor stemt, terwijl CDA en SGP juist voor zouden stemmen als die novelle er wel zou komen. D66 zou eerst dan alsnog voor de novelle stemmen maar doet dat nu alsnog niet (aan de slag!), en volgens het telraam van het AD is er nu 1 zetel te weinig voor strenge asielwetten. Dit slaat helemaal nergens op en bewijst maar weer: de Eerste Kamer moet kapot.

Gidi Markuszower stelt alleen maar vragen

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More than 1,000 people were in shelters across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as Sinlaku moved away

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Super Typhoon Sinlaku hammered the Northern Mariana Islands, flipping over cars, toppling utility poles and ripping away tin roofs.

Authorities were just beginning to assess the damage left behind by the typhoon, which first hit the islands on Tuesday night local time and continued with a barrage of fierce winds and relentless rains for hours on Wednesday. So far, there have been no reports of deaths.

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• Red Bull driver outspoken about regulation changes

• ‘In a meeting he was very keen to give suggestions’

Formula One must listen to Max Verstappen’s grievances about the sport’s new regulations and their impact on racing, according to F1’s chief Stefano Domenicali as key players hold meetings to consider adjusting the rules for the remainder of the season.

Verstappen has been outspoken in his dissatisfaction with the new formula and the key part energy management now plays in preventing being able to race flat-out. The four-time champion is not alone in his feelings with other drivers also critical of the deployment and recharging of electrical energy.

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Gen Z are turning to nonnas for inspiration on how to live to be 100. Will donning a flowery dress and making their own pasta sauce do the trick?

Name: Nonnamaxxing.

Age: 70 to 100, and beyond.

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England have a long way to go yet before booking flights to Brazil, but Esme Morgan, Lotte Wubben-Moy and Lucia Kendall impressed against Spain

Everybody keep calm. England sit top of their qualifying group with a 100% record after beating Spain, but there remains a very long way to go before anyone can start booking flights to South America for 2027 … Let us cast aside that sensible advice, though, and begin to look at the players who enhanced their prospects of selection because, whether England continue this winning streak or not, their target is to win a first world title and there is no hiding from that challenge. So who has staked a claim?

Of the 11 players who started at Wembley on Tuesday, eight look nailed on to be in the first-choice XI for the World Cup, let alone the squad. That octet of Hannah Hampton, Lucy Bronze, Alex Greenwood, Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway, Lauren Hemp, Lauren James and Alessia Russo will be central to Sarina Wiegman’s plans for Brazil, together with senior players such as Leah Williamson and Ella Toone when they return after injuries, plus the “clutch moment” saviour that is Chloe Kelly, who was on the bench.

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With ear-splitting excess, flamboyant virtuosity and a talent for transgression, where classical music has led, metal has followed. Let’s hope the Philharmonia’s Metal Orchestrated concert turns it up to 11

The question is not why, but why has it taken so long? Putting heavy metal and classical together that is, as the Philharmonia are doing next week in their Forged in Sound: Heavy Metal Orchestrated gig, part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

There’s more that connects metal and classical music than sets them apart. A love of volume, turning the noise up to 11? From Black Sabbath to Stravinsky, check. A worship of virtuosity, of speed, technique and orgiastic instrumental excess, from Vivaldi to Van Halen? Absolutely. An all-too easily parodied sense of grandiloquence, pseudo-seriousness and expressive pomp and circumstance? I give you Richard Wagner and Iron Maiden. An addiction to flamboyant spectacle, a PR-driven flirtation with the dark side to build the mythology of the music and the performers? That too.

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