Zo. De Dodenherdenking is voorbij, dan is het nu tijd voor de echte slachtoffers. Dat zijn natuurlijk de mensen die gisteren hun eigen particuliere gevoel wilden opdringen aan een heel land en verschrikkelijk zijn behandeld door de tirannieke overheid van Femke Halsema en consorten. Uiteraard is iedereen alweer vrijgelaten, uiteraard was beroepsvervelio Frank van der Linden van de partij, uiteraard worden ze verdedigd door Willem Jebbink, die vorig jaar ook al de slachtoffers van Marco Kroon bijstond, en uiteraard loopt Jebbink te zeuren over de politie in de T.

"Jebbink zegt dat zijn cliënten de arrestaties gaan aanvechten. „De burgemeester kan enkel bij wanorde of dreigen daarvan beperkingen aan de demonstratievrijheid stellen. Van dreigende wanorde was geen sprake. Op beelden is zichtbaar dat de groep zwijgend bordjes ophoudt, op borsthoogte”, aldus de advocaat.

Het drietal dat nog wordt verhoord, is volgens Jebbink bovendien „hardhandig tegen de grond gewerkt door agenten in burger”. De advocaat stelt dat zij hierbij letsel, „waaronder blauwe plekken en verdraaide polsen”, hebben opgelopen. „Ook hier lijkt het erop dat de burgemeester op oneigenlijke gronden vreedzaam protest van de Dam heeft verbannen. Dat is in strijd met de grondwet”, aldus Jebbink."

Ja ho wacht ho jongens, het is van tweeën één hè. Óf je bent een dappere verzetsstrijder die door riemen en ruiten gaat om de onderdrukkende fascisten te bestrijden en niet kijkt op een blauw plekje meer of minder, óf je blijft lekker thuis als mensen die niet helemaal geschift zijn samenkomen om op een (min of meer) waardige manier verschrikkelijke gebeurtenissen te herdenken. Niet dit gejank.

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Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good

The thing about unfilmable works of literature is that most of them eventually turn out to be quite filmable after all. The Lord of the Rings was a bit of a mess when shot in rotoscope on a minuscule budget by the guy who filmed Fritz the Cat; it won Oscars when handed to Peter Jackson, given the GDP of a small nation and a visual effects department the size of Gondor. The 1984 version of Dune was a disappointment, despite the presence of David Lynch in the director’s chair, largely because all that gleaming, tawdry galactic opulence couldn’t make up for the comprehensively bad acting, clotted exposition and obsession with freaky heart plugs. And yet the 2021 adaptation from Denis Villeneuve ended up being a tour de force of masterly restraint and monolithic scale.

Milton’s Paradise Lost? The 17th-century epic poem has always felt like an outlier, a work of literature too religiously inspired to be filmed purely as a work of fantasy, yet too riotously bonkers to be treated with puritanical reverence. It contains more drama than the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in every line of thunderous God-baiting iambic pentameter. And now Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction and director of Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, wants to bring it to the big screen using the power of AI.

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Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been released.

Starring Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, the epic film retells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year voyage back to his homeland of Ithaca after the Greek victory at the siege of Troy.

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Game is in danger of losing its integrity by howling about referees’ decisions and unedifying actions on the field under the notional banner of player welfare

It felt like a proper occasion in Bordeaux on Sunday. The trams were so jammed en route to the ground that the kick-off had to be delayed to allow spectators extra time to find their seats. For those who dismiss the notion of club rugby rivaling football for vibrant mass interest here was a compelling counterpoint: a heaving 42,000-capacity stadium, off-the-scale passion, top-class sport in every respect.

Later on, after the game was done, there was another revealing snapshot at the airport. As Bath’s beaten players headed for their flight home they were warmly applauded down to the gate by their travelling supporters. A corner of a foreign departure lounge was briefly akin to north-east Somerset. Despite the outcome, the fans instinctively wanted to show how much they have enjoyed their team’s efforts this season.

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As a cheap, easy solution for when you’re away from home for a few days, it quietly does its job

The problem
Going away for a week and leaving your plants to fend for themselves is a specific kind of anxiety. You water thoroughly before you leave, move them out of direct sunlight, group them together and then spend your holiday picturing a wilted peace lily.

The hack
One hack suggests wrapping damp towels around the base and sides of your pots, creating a slow-release moisture jacket that keeps the root zone cooler and hydrated, while also acting as an insulating layer that slows evaporation from the soil surface. Unlike wicking systems that actively draw water in, this is purely about retention – holding on to the moisture that’s already there.

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An exodus of workers will be damaging – and electoral change might help Britain escape instability and low growth

While all eyes are on the Middle East and the risk of a global recession, a possible scenario with significant downside risk for the UK economy after the next general election is building: the impact of anti-immigration policies.

We do not know enough about the actual policy changes a Reform UK-led government would impose, but if we get forced repatriation (including of some who were born in Britain) combined with a climate of fear, the economic disruption could be highly significant.

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Robert Cyr Jr, a US navy airman, had gone missing in 1944 when his seaplane crashed in the Segond channel

The remains of a US military aviator who went missing after his crew crashed during the second world war were recovered and identified through DNA analysis and his family recently laid him to rest in Florida, according to officials.

US navy airman Robert Cyr Jr’s burial in Clearwater, Florida, brought to an end a decades-long saga that began on 22 January 1944, when he and eight fellow crewmates crashed while they were aboard a seaplane as it took off in the Segond channel in what is now the south Pacific’s Republic of Vanuatu.

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The film’s villain is a conniving tech oligarch seeking to buy his way into fashion’s inner circle. Sound familiar?

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. There was a time where the all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – could end careers with a glance. But this time, she spends most of the movie taking orders herself. First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing.

In the film, Benji is played – scarily well, I should add – by Justin Theroux. After a high-profile divorce, he has had a “glow-up”, which loosely translates to losing weight and boasting a deep mahogany tan. Post-divorce, he is now in a relationship with Emily – Miranda’s acerbic former assistant, played by the scene-stealing Emily Blunt, who is described as “every girl who ignored him in high school”. Benji’s inclusion in the story feels representative of the wider media landscape, where the whims of billionaires decide which parts of the old, pre-social media world get to survive. And for Emily, she’s learning that being associated with someone so powerful has the potential to help her finally step out of Miranda’s shadow. The romance between these diametric opposites – Type A fashion queen and a nerd who grew up to become one of the world’s richest men – provides a stream of comic relief. But beyond the laughs are a deeper – and bleaker – statement about how people with enough money can buy cultural power.

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The Cuban-American artist likes to paint pretty young white men – inspired by his fascination with Holden Caulfield. So why do his portraits have a sinister edge?

Hernan Bas has been living in Venice this year, painting tourists. He’s aware of the ironies. (He is the kind of tourist, he tells me, who started looking at Venetian property prices, oh, about a week into his stay.) The Cuban-American artist is from Miami, and he knows about mass tourism all too intimately: he lives in an neighbourhood that has now been so thoroughly colonised by Airbnbs that when he comes home from the airport, taxi drivers ask him where he’s visiting from, and he has to explain that no, this is his own house.

Here – his studio looking out over the lulling lap of the lagoon – he can be the tourist as innocent, as amnesiac, drinking in the beauties of the city and forgetting about the violence and catastrophe unfurling beyond. “I can pretend nothing’s happening in the world. And I’ve done a very, very good job of that for the last seven weeks,” he tells me when we meet in the spring. For a moment his mind drifts back despairingly to his home town and the fraught politics of his country. “It was so mind boggling how much the Latin community went for Trump, and now everyone is eating dirt because they’re hiding from ICE,” he says. “Those same people who were gung ho for Trump are now getting deported.”

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My girlfriends and I have more fun, more adventures, more independence than ever before. And as for the sex …

I met my boyfriend when he was playing Bach in the park. I was taking my usual jog past London zoo and around the Regent’s Park boating lake when I was stopped in my tracks by the most beautiful music. Wafting across the rose garden was an exquisite guitar rendition of Bach’s prelude in E major. When the final notes hung in the air like gossamer, I congratulated the musician. A twinkly-eyed bloke smiled up at me. “Ah, no bother,” he said in a soft Irish burr.

At the sound of his mellifluous, velvety voice, my heart beat so loudly I felt as though it was coming through stereo speakers. His eyes seemed to smoke their way into me. I stared at him for what I estimate to be about, oh, a decade, but was probably only two seconds, before asking him for coffee. Pathetic, I know. A romcom “meet-cute” like this is not just cheesy; it’s deep-fried Brie in a bechamel sauce on a bed of melted cheddar.

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JEREVAN (ANP) - Voorzitter Ursula von der Leyen van de Europese Commissie wijst een importheffing van 25 procent op auto's en vrachtwagens door de VS van de hand. "Een deal is een deal", antwoordde ze tijdens een persconferentie in Jerevan op de vraag wat ze van het dreigement van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump vindt.

"De essentie van deze deal is welvaart, gemeenschappelijke regels en betrouwbaarheid", zei Von der Leyen. De handelsdeal wordt nu uitgevoerd "met respect voor de verschillende democratische procedures die we aan beide zijden hebben".

Trump zegt dat de EU zich niet aan de handelsdeal houdt die afgelopen zomer is overeengekomen, zonder dat toe te lichten.

De EU is bezig met de laatste fase van de uitvoering van de tariefafspraken, zei de politica. Het gaat om het schrappen van de tarieven voor Amerikaanse kreeft en bepaalde industriële goederen. Volgens haar voldoen de VS zelf nog niet aan de afspraken.

Ali B schittert donderdag door afwezigheid bij het belangrijkste moment in zijn strafzaak. Terwijl het gerechtshof uitspraak doet in het hoger beroep tegen de rapper, blijft hij weg uit de rechtszaal. Zijn advocaat Bart Swier bevestigde dat aan het AD.

Daarmee kwam meteen een nieuwe stroom speculaties op gang: zou Ali B zich uit de voeten maken als het vonnis tegenvalt? Namen als Dubai en Marokko vielen al snel op sociale media en in talkshows.

Vluchten kan niet meer

Maar volgens Swier is daar helemaal niets van waar. "Allemaal absolute onzin, hij heeft hier zijn kinderen", zegt de advocaat tegen het AD. Daarmee reageert hij op uitspraken van Rutger Castricum in Vandaag Inside. Castricum beweerde daar dat Ali ooit gezegd zou hebben dat hij niet zou gaan ‘zitten’ voor iets wat hij niet heeft gedaan.

Swier zegt niets van dat gesprek te weten en noemt ook die bewering "absolute onzin". Waarom Ali donderdag niet aanwezig is, blijft onduidelijk. Volgens zijn advocaat kan de emotionele impact van de uitspraak een rol spelen. Dat Ali het nieuws liever eerst met zijn familie verwerkt, "is een prima analyse", aldus Swier.

Hoge Raad

Het Openbaar Ministerie eist in hoger beroep 2,5 jaar cel voor twee verkrachtingen en één aanranding. In 2024 veroordeelde de rechtbank in Haarlem hem al tot twee jaar cel.

Direct de cel in hoeft Ali B bij een veroordeling waarschijnlijk niet. Er is geen onmiddellijke gevangenneming geëist en hij kan nog naar de Hoge Raad stappen.

Bron: AD

BRUSSEL (ANP/BELGA) - ING schikt de Belgische witwaszaak rond oud-politicus Didier Reynders voor 1,6 miljoen euro. Dat heeft het Brusselse parket naar buiten gebracht.

In april vorig jaar deed de Belgische centrale bank aangifte tegen ING België voor mogelijke medeplichtigheid aan witwassen van geld. Het Brusselse parket begon eveneens een onderzoek om na te gaan waarom de bank eerder geen melding had gemaakt van 245 contante stortingen en 779 e-Lotto-overschrijvingen van Reynders, een voormalig Eurocommissaris. Daarmee was in totaal ruim 1 miljoen euro gemoeid.

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Bennet-Martins, who lives in Boston with her wife, explains that the business started out as a silent protest against a bigoted neighbor.

"I was out of work because of the lockdown and we had just recently moved into this condominium complex that we live in," Maura says. "We were talking to a neighbor and I don't necessarily think she's homophobic, I think she's just ignorant, but she was talking about these other women that lived in the complex that she does not like and she kept calling them dykes." Gathering together her existing gnome collection, Bennet-Martins got to work making them as gay as possible. "I just started painting all of my garden gnomes so that if she was talking to someone else, and referring to us as those dykes, they would know exactly who she's talking about. There's 25 gay gnomes in my front yard!"

Hij bloeit overweldigend, met wolken witte bloesems, maar heeft ook venijnige doornen die in het verleden reuzenneushoorns en olifanten op afstand hielden. Het maakt de meidoorn zowel geschikt voor lieflijke, decoratieve toepassingen in jugendstil en art deco, als om symbool te staan voor zelfkastijding.