In which someone in The Guardian taste-tests 100 varieties of crisps (not all unusual flavours). Back in 2020, the Museum of Crisps also tackled this subject - hedgehog flavoured, and Christmas tree flavoured, crisps - as has the subreddit r/crisps. Meanwhile, Lovefood have some international examples.

BERLIJN (ANP/RTR) - De Duitse bondskanselier Friedrich Merz is "ten diepste verontwaardigd" over het nieuws dat zijn voorganger Gerhard Schröder woensdag de 74e verjaardag van de Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft bijgewoond. Een woordvoerder van Merz noemt het "ronduit immoreel" dat Schröder op de uitnodiging is ingegaan.

"Poetin is in zijn eentje verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog in Oekraïne", aldus de woordvoerder. "Zijn bevelen zorgen voor onmetelijk leed, burgerslachtoffers, uit elkaar gerukte families, doden en gewonden."

Schröder was van 1998 tot 2005 de bondskanselier van Duitsland namens de sociaaldemocratische SPD. In de periode daarna kreeg hij een aantal prominente posities bij Russische bedrijven, zoals Gazprom. Daar krijgt hij al jaren stevige kritiek op, met name sinds de Russische invasie in Oekraïne van 2022.

Ook Schröders eigen partij heeft het bezoek van Schröder aan Poetin veroordeeld. Co-partijleider van de SPD Lars Klingbeil noemde het "compleet onacceptabel".

Peter Breedveld Als jij de terreur door Israël mag verheerlijken, mag een ander Hamas steunen. Anders moet je toegeven dat je een hypocriete demon bent en tegen vrijheid van meningsuiting. Peter Breedveld Illustratie: Margaret Brundage Meteen na 7 oktober 2023 werd het iedereen verboden, ook door een gerenommeerde historicus als Simon Schama, om het te hebben over wat er vóór 7 oktober. Over de context. Na drie jaar Israëlische razernij, met 72000 dode Palestijnen als gevolg, mogen we het ook niet hebben over wat er na 7 oktober 2023 is gebeurd. We mogen alleen maar praten over 7 oktober 2023, over de vreselijke slachtpartij die Hamas heeft aangericht. Zomaar, opeens, uit het niets. Laat me Simon Schama de middelvinger geven en volstaan met de perfecte éénregelige samenvatting die ik in de tijdlijn van Jaap Hamburger aantrof: ‘Sinds 1948 is het voor de Palestijnen elke dag 7 oktober geweest’. Context. Hamas steunen Femke Halsema liet weten dat ze het betreurde dat ze niks kon doen tegen een spandoek ‘We Support Hasmas’ bij een betoging op de Dam. De voormalige EO-journalist Tijs den Brink, tegenwoordig farizeeër bij het CDA, lispelde handenwringend dat hij uitkeek naar de behandeling, in de Kamer, van het […]

Het bericht Terrorisme verheerlijken met Jigal Krant verscheen eerst op Frontaal Naakt.

A Place to Bury Strangers

Het kabinet heeft sterke signalen dat de sancties, die het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) lam zouden kunnen leggen, vrijdag komen. Brussel kijkt naar Den Haag voor een reactie, maar daar leven verschillende zienswijzen.

A touch of homemade scotch bonnet jam turns up the heat in this classic concoction

Our daiquiri sums up what All Roads is all about: familiar flavours with a little twist. Pineapple, rum and lime are a classic combination, and the addition of scotch bonnet jam brings a subtle warmth that makes this just as good for those first crisp autumn evenings as it is on a sunny day.

Malika Green and Paschelle Brown, All Roads, London SW9

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‘The climate issue is the security issue,’ says Turkish minister at Pacific pre-Cop summit in Fiji

Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.

But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether the world’s countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month. Kurum, the Turkish climate change minister, told the Guardian the world was “already in a transition” and suggested fossil fuel use could be addressed indirectly through other steps.

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The comedy wunderkind shot to fame with his show Literally, Who Cares?! and a role in Lena Dunham’s Too Much. Now he’s bringing his take on self-involved zoomers to the TV screen. Just don’t call him the voice of a generation

Leo Reich’s new Channel 4 sitcom is “Girls meets Peep Show. That’s always my favourite part of pitching anything: choose two really good things and say it’s a mix of those!” says the comedian with a slight smirk. Still, it’s a fair summary: It Gets Worse is a bracingly candid, occasionally provocative hangout comedy about twentysomethings floundering professionally and personally in the big city that comes accompanied by a strong stench of British bleakness (see: the title, for a start). Yet it does fail to flag one key aspect. While Girls and Peep Show covered the travails of millennials and gen X respectively, It Gets Worse is happening now – making it the UK’s first true gen Z sitcom.

Or not. “I’m sceptical of the idea that generations have any real unifying features across the board, so I don’t want it to be like: this is a gen Z sitcom!” says the 28-year-old. In fact, it soon becomes clear that It Gets Worse is deliberately USP-less. We first meet Reich’s Ethan – “a middle-class loser gay guy” – and his pals Sam and Abi as they’re packing up their London flatshare, having been forced out because of a rent hike. But this isn’t the start of a meditation on the cost of living crisis – or anything else. “The point isn’t there’s some big concept where everyone’s a superhero, it’s: these are some people dot dot dot.” When I ask how closely the final show resembles his original idea, Reich looks askance. “The idea, I would say, was quite broad …”

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Layby hookups are all in a day’s work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks faking orgasms, keeping secrets – and making audiences pass out

In a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota Yaris was parked in a remote roadside spot with a sex scene being filmed inside it. “It can pose challenges, depending on the size of the car,” chuckles Romola Garai. “Me and Dominic [Cooper] got in this hatchback and asked: ‘How far do these seats go back?’ Soon there was a gale blowing outside. We were in the car, ready to shoot, but outside the entire film crew were being buffeted by high winds. They said: ‘You guys stay in there, don’t get out!’ while all the lights were getting blown away.”

What did the co-stars do while the camera crew battled the elements? “What actors always do in these situations – have a long, gossipy conversation about people in the industry. While everyone else was trying to save the show, we were sitting in the car, like: ‘Well, I’ve heard he’s a total nightmare!’”

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Gang broke into cellar of Marchesi Antinori in Cortona and loaded two trucks with 30,000 bottles before getaway

Thousands of bottles of wine worth €5m (£4.2m) have been stolen from a prestigious winery in Tuscany in what is thought to be the biggest heist of its kind in Italy.

A gang of at least seven masked individuals broke into the cellar of Marchesi Antinori, a family-owned winery dating back to the late 1300s, in Cortona after shutting off the alarms and surveillance cameras before using company forklifts to load two large trucks with 30,000 bottles of wine and making off.

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