Greens first, Reform second, Labour trailing – and the Tories losing their deposit. This felt like a rejection of the status quo

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• Cost of Ten Hag exit then having Amorim may hit £36.3m

• Settlement for Amorim and his staff revealed in filing

Manchester United sacking Ruben Amorim could end up costing the club almost £16m. Amorim’s 14-month reign ended on 5 January after his public attack on United’s hierarchy, with his five coaches also leaving Old Trafford.

A filing to the New York Stock Exchange revealed the potential payments to Amorim and his staff, a day after the club confirmed they had made a £32.6m profit in their second-quarter results to 31 December 2025.

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Javier Milei’s boosters say law will revive employment, but critics decry cuts to severance and longer working hours

Argentina’s senate is poised to approve a sweeping overhaul of labour laws aimed at weakening trade unions and lowering labour costs for businesses.

The government of the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president, Javier Milei, says the initiative will help revive formal employment, after 290,600 registered jobs were lost between December 2023, when he took office, and November 2025.

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The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday

This past week Team USA won gold in both the women’s and men’s ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, presenting Donald Trump with a golden opportunity. Instead of seizing the easy political points, he embraced his chance to ingratiate himself with the boys by inviting them to the State of the Union address. He followed up his offer of a military jet shuttle to Washington DC with a lament that he would have to also invite the women’s team. It was a bit that lit up the locker room with laughter.

The women’s gold medal had been a prime opportunity for Trump to live up to his stated commitment to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports”, a claim made last February when he sought to position himself as the figure saving women’s sports. Instead, he decided to make a joke at the expense of Olympic champions.

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Could the royal family’s latest troubles usher in a new era of diplomatic dressing?

As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into police custody last week, his brother King Charles made a “surprise” appearance on the front row at the opening of London fashion week. Styled in one of his staple jaunty ties, clashing pocket handkerchief and British-made suit, it sent the message loud and clear: this was business as usual.

That message persisted when, at the Baftas at the weekend, the Prince and Princess of Wales showed a united front in coordinated burgundy velvet (“Pantone diplomacy”, as the New York Times put it). Catherine’s blush Gucci gown showed not just solidarity in hue but also, arguably, signalled her ethics in a week when the royal family’s came under fire: she’d worn the dress before, on a previous outing.

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Ruim tien jaar zaten Nederlandse familieleden van vermeende IS-strijders vast in kampen in het noordoosten van het land. Nu in een paar weken tijd de meer dan twintigduizend bewoners van kamp Al-Hol stilletjes zijn verdwenen, is onduidelijk wat er met hen is gebeurd.

De gemiddelde Nederlander krijgt te weinig vezels binnen. Janneke Vreugdenhil geeft u twee recepten, voor een mango-kokos-chiapudding en fleximuesli, om daar meteen bij het ontbijt al iets aan te doen.

These shifts are making us lose not just our taste for visionary fiction, but our belief in its very possibility: that novels, or anything, might have the sorts of transformative powers I've ascribed to them. In that case, though, preserving our intellectual integrity would mean that we stop paying lip service to a notion of artistry in literature that no longer carries conviction. This would still leave us free to give ourselves over to the pleasures of leisure fiction (and journalism too), but without the bad faith. from Distant Visions: Putdownable Prose and the State of the Art-Novel by Mark de Silva [3 a.m.]

​"Godverdomme", concludeert de 59-jarige JA21-stemmer Gerard op Facebook, na het doorlezen van de kabinetsplannen. "Dit is asociaal extreemrechts beleid dat de kloof tussen rijk en arm alleen maar groter maakt."

"Hier, kijk dan. De rekening komt vol bij de burger te liggen, in plaats van dat ze fatsoenlijk bedrijven en vermogenden belasten, dat is toch helemaal gestoord?", reageert Cynthia woedend. "Hoe hebben we het als land zover laten komen dat we zó'n rechts kabinet hebben? Waar is Geert?"

Op X voorziet Edrettekkettet69 het extreemrechtse label van enige nuance: "Daar wordt tegenwoordig veel te snel de discussie mee doodgeslagen. De elite is economisch misschien extreemrechts, maar als het om duurzaamheid, inclusie, immigratie en andere woke shit gaat, zijn ze weer extreemlinks. Typisch reptielen, volkomen onberekenbaar."

Onderaan hun posts spreken ze alledrie de verwachting uit dat een stem op bijvoorbeeld een JA21 of FvD wél voor rechtvaardig en sociaal beleid zal zorgen.

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Door een datalek zijn gegevens van medewerkers van de Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI) gelekt. Een woordvoerster van de organisatie zegt na berichtgeving van Argos hierover dat het gaat om mailadressen, telefoonnummers en beveiligingscertificaten van DJI-medewerkers.

Begin deze maand bleek sprake van een datalek bij de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) en Raad voor de rechtspraak door een kwetsbaarheid bij ICT-leverancier Ivanti. Nu blijkt dat ook DJI is getroffen.

"Op dit moment wordt de oorzaak van het datalek en cyberincident onderzocht", zegt de DJI-woordvoerster. Het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is op de hoogte gesteld.

DJI heeft 16.000 medewerkers en beheert op vijftig locaties in Nederland penitentiaire inrichtingen, jeugdinrichtingen en tbs-klinieken.