In de dagen voor de bevrijding dwong de bezetter een groep vrouwen tot een deportatiemars, de enige op Nederlandse bodem. Ze spraken er later zelden over. Met behulp van het decennialange speurwerk van een amateurhistoricus maakten kleinkinderen nu een documentaire.
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While Charles and Camilla were on a three-line whip, MPs watched the excruciating discomfort of civil servants
We don’t often get to see senior civil servants out and about in the wild. They are kept away from the public gaze, sat behind a desk trying to persuade their ministers not to do something too catastrophic to their government department. Quite why they have been been made a knight or a dame just for doing their jobs is one of life’s mysteries. The rest of us have to make do with the occasional email from the boss. But in the last week, two top civil servants have been reluctantly made to give evidence on Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador before the foreign affairs select committee and very instructive it has been, too. Not least to see how much they dislike any extra attention from the public. Their obvious discomfort at being held to account was excruciating to watch.
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There is no one quite like Ayao Komatsu in Formula One. Haas’s Japanese team principal, a rugby-playing Coventry City fan who left his home country to escape the constraints of conformity, is F1’s rebel without a pause.
As Haas enter their first home race of the season in Miami this weekend, they are on no little roll. Fourth place in the championship is the highest position held by a US team after three races in the sport’s history and Komatsu has engineered it in a sport he once viewed as his great escape.
Continue reading...Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra; Mer de Glace by Małgorzata Lebda; The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith; Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar; Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland
Yiewsley by Daljit Nagra (Faber, £14.99)
Given the relish with which Nagra pushes and pulls at English, it’s worth noting that Yiewsley is a real west London suburb. This location allows him to continue his career-long exploration of childhood working-class Sikh experience and, through it, wider questions of identity. But as Nagra turns 60, location is becoming increasingly a matter of time as well as space. The classic struggle of each first generation to arrive in Britain, and the pressure on its kids to make good, now sits within a 1960s and 70s time capsule. Enoch Powell and the National Front cast violent shadows, but parkas, school blancmange and cricket strike a sweeter, almost elegiac note.
Mer de Glace by Małgorzata Lebda, translated by Mira Rosenthal (Fitzcarraldo, £12.99)
Much as they have in prose, Fitzcarraldo are awakening British poetry publishing to the glamour of braininess. Mer de Glace is named for a dying French glacier, but the sequence is set on the 1,047km-long Polish river Vistula, along which Lebda ran in 2021. Images of fires and firesides recur: we are all of us out in a wild, vulnerable world. This is ecopoetry at its most profound and informal, challenging and pleasurable. Rosenthal’s quietly fluent translations give us “books that help us close the mouth of night”, light as “Baltic mercury” and, as the runner nears the end of her journey, a “pelvis tilting / towards the open sea”.
American Agitators is a rousing new documentary about Fred Ross Sr, who spent more than 50 years fighting against divisive and destructive forces in the US
“Community organizing” is a phrase that’s taken on an almost elastic quality in this fraught political moment. When it isn’t being wielded by right-leaning ideologues to slight grassroots politics (see the 2008 US presidential and 2025 New York City mayoral elections), it’s being embraced by progressives who believe that hopscotching among major protest movements and voting every four years will eventually turn the tide.
But lost in the back-and-forth is a basic truth: the most effective community organizing is as much art as it is science. “Talk to younger [activist] groups, and they say: ‘Oh, we do things online’ – and some of them get this kind of burst of attention,” says Raymond Telles, a venerable documentarian with a 35-year history of following people-powered movements for PBS, ABC and other US networks. “But it doesn’t last. There isn’t that person-to-person follow-up. You can’t just demonstrate and be a flash in the pan. You’ve got to stick to it.”
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Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…
TSA agents allegedly insisted that Pavel Talankin check the gold-plated award into the plane’s cargo hold, claiming it “could be used as a weapon” in the cabin.
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Onderdeel van het Rijn-Schiekanaal, met aan de kant het rijksmonument Bacinol 2 gebouw.