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Continue reading...I’m now at a time of life where a rib injury can feel like a ruptured spleen but playing still trumps watching, so we go again. Again
I woke up a few weeks ago with a searing pain under my left ribs. I ruled out heart attack relatively quickly – I haven’t read about your heart sagging as you enter deep middle age, or whatever your late 40s is. Breathing was uncomfortable, but not short – there were no stabbing pains. Inhaling ached, and it turns out you inhale all the time.
Once I was confident of seeing out the remainder of the day, I started Googling other potential ailments in this region, confidently seizing upon ruptured spleen. It sounded impressive enough to put in a WhatsApp group. And so I went with it.
Continue reading...As Trump lurches from tariffs to wars and Farage makes unrealistic pledges about immigration, their impunity needs to end
Rightwing populists always promise they will get things done when they get into power. Immigration will be halted. Government waste will be eradicated. Traditional values will be revived. National decline will be halted. National greatness will be restored. Relations with the outside world will be redrawn.
Great tasks that, for decades, have been beyond the capability and will of conventional, compromising politicians will be accomplished – and fast. Populist governments will respond decisively to voters’ accumulated frustrations, cut through bureaucracy, and avoid the delays, U-turns and half-finished projects that usually blight democracies. The business of government will be straightforward and highly productive – even heroic – rather than complicated and disappointing.
Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist
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Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.…
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Europese Unie en de Verenigde Staten ondertekenen vrijdag een voorlopige samenwerkingsovereenkomst over kritieke mineralen, grondstoffen die essentieel zijn voor de economie en maatschappij. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken gemeld.
Kritieke mineralen worden gebruikt voor de productie van allerlei voorwerpen, bijvoorbeeld smartphones en elektrische auto's. Ze komen momenteel met name uit China. De VS hebben bondgenoten opgeroepen meer te betalen voor kritieke mineralen die buiten China worden gewonnen.
Eurocommissaris Maroš Šefčovič (Handel) en de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio komen volgens het Amerikaanse ministerie vrijdag bijeen om de deal te ondertekenen. Persbureau Bloomberg meldde eerder deze maand dat de EU en de VS dicht bij een akkoord waren om samen te werken aan de productie en veiligstelling van kritieke mineralen. De mogelijke deal zou prikkels bevatten zoals minimumprijsgaranties die niet-Chinese leveranciers kunnen bevoordelen.