Goedemorgen Nederland, goedemorgen Ter Apel. Omdat we in Nederland geen asielcrisis hebben, maar de mensen wel een asielcrisis ervaren, zijn er vannacht honderd mensen heen en weer gereden naar Gieten en staat er vandaag weer een lange rij bij het aanmeldcentrum, dat wij langzamerhand zo goed kennen. Maar laten we nou eens denken in oplossingen. Dit weekend is het toch Pinksteren, dus maandag hoeven er geen kranten gedrukt te worden. Dat betekent dat er een schitterend gebouw op een A-locatie in Amsterdam-Zuidoost een tijdje ongebruikt is. Het GeenStijl Noodopvang Plan luidt derhalve: laten we 200 jonge alleenstaande mannen een paar overnachtingen aanbieden in De Kamer Van Klok. De pendelbusjes staan al klaar. Wat kan er misgaan.

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Some stories can only be told by the one who started them. For many years, Canopée waited to come of age to finally adorn herself with a richer plumage. She has travelled the world, met many versions of herself along the way. Ten years on, the typeface returned to write her next chapter on her own terms: fuller, richer, with a complete lowercase, new weights, and new styles. What defines Canopée is contradiction held in tension. Its serifs are sharp, geometric, precise, yet the letterforms they inhabit are organic, rounded, built with a looseness that pushes back against that rigidity. This friction is intentional. It is where the typeface lives. Rhythm here is structural, not merely optical. Condensed letters sit alongside extravagantly wide ones: tight, then open, tight, open. That alternation is its pulse. Designing the lowercase took more than two years. The challenge was not technical, it was one of equilibrium. Roundness alone would have made it soft and unserious.

A misogynist is made to learn the error of his ways in this painfully dated and embarrassingly star-packed sexism comedy

In its attempt to become a one-stop shop for just about every form of nostalgia possible, Netflix has now decided to revive the dreadful British comedy of the 2000s. Films such as Sex Lives of the Potato Men, Three and Out, Fat Slags and Lesbian Vampire Killers saw creatives boldly stand up to Hollywood and declare that whatever they could do, the UK film industry could do it 10 times worse.

The all-deciding algorithm has somehow deemed it necessary for a return to that cursed era with the release of Ladies First, a broad and chintzy new comedy that would have felt old hat even back then. It’s an excruciatingly unfunny high-concept thought experiment, imagining a world with flipped gender politics, that’s far too happy with itself and what it’s allegedly achieving to be passed off as just some charming throwback. Like the other misfires it recalls, it’s also a criminal waste of talent, a murderer’s row of actors who hopefully got paid handsomely for the embarrassment of this whiffing up their IMDb pages.

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The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circle

It may have been a place for ceremony or a barn for pack animals. It could have been a place for weary labourers to rest their heads. Or perhaps there was no building at all.

English Heritage has unveiled a 7-metre-high reconstruction of what a 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall may have looked like at Stonehenge, offering visitors a glimpse into the lives of the prehistoric builders who raised the world’s most famous stone circle.

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Call it a mix of collectivism and entrepreneurialism or just an overarching vibe, but the mayor’s philosophy could be on the way to Westminster

Among the underrated later work of those revered sons of Manchester the Smiths, there is a completely jaw-dropping song simply titled London. Full of fury and excitement, it depicts a Mancunian as he boards a train, travelling to the capital full of ambition and hope, but also gripped by a gnawing ambivalence. Andy Burnham, whose love of the band is hardly a surprise, may well recognise not only its defining theme, but the song’s accidental encapsulation of his decision to try to make his way to the House of Commons, in a line crooned by Morrissey in slightly mocking tones: “And do you think you’ve made the right decision this time?”

Even if some observers only give him a 45% chance of winning, it looks like Burnham has, particularly when it comes to his pitch for power. Eleven years ago, let us not forget, a somewhat different incarnation of the future Greater Manchester mayor was one of four candidates for the Labour leadership, along with Jeremy Corbyn, and chose to stage one of his launch events at the City of London HQ of the auditing firm Ernst & Young. There he said he might back further benefit cuts, and claimed that too many people associated Labour with “giving people who don’t want to help themselves an easy ride”. In 2022, he told me this was the result of bad advice: “I listened to people that I shouldn’t have, really. It was tone-deaf … it wasn’t me. It wasn’t authentic.”

John Harris is a Guardian columnist

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This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst Kristy Greenberg about why critics are calling this fund ‘corruption on steroids’

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In a collapsing world, artists like Slayyyter and Cobrah are chasing extreme highs with hyperactive music and debauched lyrics. Is their trashy vibe emancipating – or a bit contrived?

If any year demanded a soundtrack of self-aggrandising female mayhem, it’s 2026. Amid the terrors of war, AI and the climate crisis, women are expected to be symbolic vessels of order and stability: thin, beautiful and perpetually 25 – a state of perfection newly available for purchase thanks to weight-loss drugs and the deep plane facelift.

Covered unironically in leopard print and rhinestones, a cohort of young female pop stars are defying this familiar con with brash electronic pop, shamelessly hedonistic lyrics, anarchic sexuality and an obsession with what was once dismissed as “white trash”. It’s an aesthetic embraced by performers such as Slayyyter, Kim Petras, Cobrah, Demi Lovato, Snow Strippers’ Tatiana Schwaninger, Tove Lo and returning scene godmother Kesha.

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The winner will qualify for the GB team for the 2027 World Solving Championship, an event where they are often a medal contender

This week’s puzzle is a chance to enter an annual national competition in which Guardian readers traditionally perform well and in considerable numbers. White in the diagram, playing as usual up the board, is to play and checkmate in two moves, against any black defence.

The puzzle is the first stage of the annual Winton British Solving Championship, organised by the British Chess Problem Society and sponsored by investment managers Winton. This competition is only open to British residents and entry is free. To take part, simply send White’s first move by post to Nigel Dennis, Boundary House, 230 Greys Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1QY, or by email to winton@theproblemist.org.

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How the modest club from Krefeld rocked the holders to win the 1985 DFB-Pokal final – only for their fortunes to fade when funding ran dry

When Matthias Herget, flanked by Horst Feilzer and Norbert Brinkmann, lifted der Pott on a sun-dappled evening at Berlin’s Olympic stadium four decades ago, a unique moment passed in the stolid world of German football. A cup shock, the kind of wonderful giant-killing that is fairly routine in the English game but barely translates elsewhere.

Looking back now, it remains a seismic inverting of the natural order in a nation more used to an honour roll dominated by a handful of major clubs. Bayer 05 Uerdingen had just beaten the holders Bayern Munich 2-1 to win the 1985 German Cup final. As Goethe wrote: “Nothing is worth more than this day.”

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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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The Drag Race star brings nuance to the vocals and has a hoot with a frisky script but this bio-drama is too limited and ultimately cramps her style

Drag Race fans already know that the series’ “queen of all queens” Jinkx Monsoon does a mean Judy Garland impression from her lurid account of a threesome with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. This revival of Peter Quilter’s 2005 play puts Monsoon’s Garland in a love triangle instead, caught between steadfast, gay pianist Anthony (Adam Filipe) and opportunistic, soon-to-be fifth husband, Mickey (Jacob Dudman).

It plays out in 1960s London as the decade, and Garland’s life, draw to an end. Quilter divides the drama between private and public, moving from the performer’s hotel suite to her residency at Talk of the Town, derailed by her drinking and a drug addiction that dated back to her teenage role in The Wizard of Oz.

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Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Bryan Cranston and Tig Notaro were among the guests to see off both host and talk show in an 80-minute finale

Series finales for late night shows are, by their nature, a little odd and also exceedingly rare; usually it’s the host’s final episode, and not the entire show’s, as franchises like The Tonight Show or Late Night continue on with someone new at the wheel. But CBS made the, ah, visionary decision to cancel the Late Show, the talkshow it created in 1993 as a new home for David Letterman after he failed to score the Tonight Show job over at NBC. In Letterman’s hands, and eventually Stephen Colbert’s, the show became an institution and the first real, sustained Tonight Show competitor in years.

Indeed, the CBS Late Show leaves the air as the No 1 show in network TV late night, with that 11.35pm real estate immediately and ignominiously rented out to Byron Allen’s longtime syndication seat-filler Comics Unleashed. It’s a stunning streaming-era abdication that will for ever be tied with US president Donald Trump, even as the network has insisted (as echoed by a dolphin in a finale gag) that the decision was purely financial, not political. (Naturally, the show has received plenty of promotion on its way out the door, as if it were just going on its merry way.) Colbert himself has had nearly a year to come to terms with the decision, and was far past using his platform to rail against the corporate dolts on his cheerful (if unavoidably bittersweet) final instalment.

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US secretary of state says president would like a negotiated agreement with Havana but likelihood ‘is not high’

The US president, Donald Trump, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday again raised the spectre of military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro.

Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it”.

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Voor een groot deel van de medische vervolgopleidingen is duidelijk hoeveel plekken er komende jaren beschikbaar zijn. Minister Sterk (Langdurige zorg, Jeugd en Sport) volgt de adviezen die het Capaciteitsorgaan eind 2025 voor deze opleidingen publiceerde zoveel mogelijk op. Dit schrijft zij vandaag aan de Kamer. De komende jaren is er onder andere een stijging van zo’n 100 opleidingsplekken voor medisch specialisten.

PARIJS (ANP) - Bij vechtpartijen in het centrum van Parijs, veroorzaakt door voetbalsupporters uit Nice, zijn volgens de politie zes mensen gewond geraakt onder wie een ernstig. De politie heeft 65 mensen gearresteerd in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag bij de geweldplegingen niet ver van het Gare de l'Est.

Franse media berichten dat 'ultras' van de club uit Nice eerst in een café slaags raakten en vervolgens de straat op gingen en er een grote vechtpartij uitbrak op een kade. De supporters waren naar Parijs gekomen voor de bekerfinale van de club uit Nice tegen RC Lens vrijdagavond in het Stade de France.

De voorzitter van de Franse voetbalbond Philippe Diallo heeft de rellen veroordeeld en zei dat dit "alles is wat we verafschuwen aan voetbal, namelijk geweld".

CONCORD (ANP/RTR) - NASCAR-coureur Kyle Busch is donderdag op 41-jarige leeftijd aan een ziekte overleden. De Amerikaan wordt gezien als een grootheid in de populaire autosportklasse. Hij boekte in totaal 232 overwinningen en schreef in 2015 en 2019 de NASCAR Cup Series op zijn naam.

"Onze hele NASCAR-familie is diepbedroefd door het verlies van Kyle Busch", schreven de familie van Busch en de NASCAR-organisatie in een gezamenlijke verklaring. "Kyle, een toekomstige Hall of Famer, was een zeldzaam talent, iemand die je maar eens in een generatie tegenkomt. Hij was fel, gepassioneerd, enorm begaafd en had een diepe genegenheid voor de sport en de fans."

Busch werd eerder deze week opgenomen in het ziekenhuis, waardoor hij de race van zondag op de Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord in de staat North Carolina zou missen. De familie heeft geen details vrijgegeven over de ziekte.

Het technieuws van deze week ging over de rechtszaak tussen Musk en Altman. Ik vond het fascinerend én onbevredigend, want over de inhoud ging het vrijwel niet. Hoe gaan we het daar dan wel over hebben? Ik heb een voorstel.

We moesten in de eerste helft van deze week even door de zure appel heen, maar worden nu beloond. Een hogedrukgebied heeft het roer overgenomen en zorgt de komende dagen voor warm en droog zomerweer in de regio.

We moesten in de eerste helft van deze week even door de zure appel heen, maar worden nu beloond. Een hogedrukgebied heeft het roer overgenomen en zorgt de komende dagen voor warm en droog zomerweer in de regio.