Twee weken nadat de PVV-asielwetten niet door de Eerste Kamer kwamen, zet het kabinet een eerste stap rond ongewenste vreemdelingen en scherpere grenscontroles. Over de strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit is nog geen overeenstemming.

Robert Malley was als onderhandelaar voor de VS nauw betrokken bij de Iran-deal uit 2015 en onderhandelingen over de tweestatenoplossing voor Israël en Palestina. Beide leidden niet tot duurzame oplossingen ,,Je kunt het gewicht van emoties en van geschiedenis niet negeren.”

Threatened fish rescued in Victoria's most flow-stressed river. A small fish that smells like freshly-cut cucumber could be akin to a canary in the coalmine for one of Victoria's most stressed rivers.

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

6-6-20, West of Wanwatash"

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

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The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected

Last month, Charli xcx began the media campaign for her seventh studio album by giving an interview to Vogue magazine. The ensuing feature caused an impressive degree of online consternation, not because the 33-year-old star had said anything particularly controversial, but because she had suggested that the follow-up to 2024’s Brat would sound markedly different to its predecessor. “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” she said, not unreasonably declining to chase Brat’s vast success by attempting to replicate it. (Although, in fairness, you could have probably worked that out from House, the noisy, experimental collaboration with John Cale she released at the end of last year as the first single from her soundtrack to Wuthering Heights.)

She also played the interviewer a track that contained both “heavily processed guitars” and the lyrics “I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re making rock music”: Vogue duly ran with the idea, trumpeting Charli xcx’s “rock reinvention” in both the headline and on its cover and other news outlets picked up on the story – “CHARLI XCX CONFIRMS ROCK ALBUM”. What one journalist tactfully called “heated discourse online from some fans and artists within the music industry” followed, eventually prompting the singer to respond, posting “a video of me making a song called Rock Music that is not actually rock music which is funny because I never said I was making a rock album”.

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Former David Cameron adviser says a vote for him will make California ‘Califordable’ – not everyone is convinced

He “knows how to wind people up like Trump”, according to friends, and made his name in the UK with zany policy ideas including making the country sunnier using state-owned cloud busters.

Now the controversial strategist Steve Hilton, named the “pint-sized Rasputin” of Conservative politics, has become an unlikely frontrunner in the primary race for California governor.

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