Mainstream politicians should remember that in the battle to defeat Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen, unity is strength
Less than a year before the most important French presidential election in the history of the Fifth Republic, the phoney war is almost over. On 7 July, a court will decide whether to uphold Marine Le Pen’s appeal against a fraud conviction and a five-year ban from public office. Should she lose, her party’s 30‑year‑old president, Jordan Bardella, will be confirmed as Rassemblement National’s candidate and the frontrunner in the race.
Voters will need to wait considerably longer, however, for clarity over who will oppose the far right. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the veteran leader of the radical-left party La France Insoumise (LFI), has already announced a fourth tilt at the presidency. But as Emmanuel Macron approaches the end of a second term blighted by unforced errors, multiple egos are jostling on the centre-left and the centre-right, amid a frantic weighing of the odds.
Continue reading...A drug for pancreatic cancer shows immense promise, but we shouldn’t forget research in the field is a story of small victories
It is unlikely that we will ever declare a final victory over cancer. Governments have often promised it: from Nixon’s 1971 “war on cancer” to the 2016 Obama‑Biden plan to fight and cure it “once and for all” and Sajid Javid’s 2022 “war on cancer” initiative in the UK. But framing it this way can obscure how real progress is made: not in stunning routs, but in stalling and turning back the advance of this terrible condition – often in simply giving people more time to live.
Several such breakthroughs, and a bigger one that could transform the treatment of multiple kinds of cancer over the next decade, emerged at last week’s American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. As the Guardian revealed, there is a new jab effective against head and neck cancers in some patients, and a new immunotherapy that could spare bladder cancer patients invasive and life-changing surgery. Most significantly, there is a new drug called daraxonrasib, which doubled survival time for pancreatic cancer patients in a recent clinical trial.
Continue reading...Italian teenager becomes youngest winner of race
Lewis Hamilton second but Russell pays penalty
Kimi Antonelli won the Monaco Grand Prix for Mercedes with a dominant drive from pole to flag, becoming at 19 the youngest victor on the streets of Monte Carlo, in only his second F1 race at the circuit. In a dramatic close to the race he held his nerve through two restarts under immense pressure.
The Italian delivered a consummate exhibition to take victory from Lewis Hamilton in second and the Red Bull of Isack Hadjar in third, though neither really challenged the Mercedes. However, Antonelli had to weather nervelessly the tense final moments of a safety-car restart and then a full standing start after a red flag because the track itself was breaking up at the final corner.
Continue reading...Doctors say diagnosis is usually clinical and doesn’t rely on a blood test, with symptoms often starting in the mid-40s
There’s a special frisson to period changes in your mid-forties. Every deviation from your usual pattern can feel like a harbinger of the menopause transition, also known as perimenopause.
One might spend years staring at their underwear, wondering: am I or aren’t I?
Keren Landman MD is an independent health reporter who is also trained as an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist, with experience serving as a disease detective at the CDC and conducting HIV and malaria research in resource-poor countries. Her public health newsletter is called Landmansplained
Continue reading...Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England
Vulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns, a Guardian investigation has found.
Against the backdrop of a deepening housing crisis, the number of homeless people forced out of London has doubled in the past two years.
Continue reading...Team are based in Tijuana with all group games in US
Iran FA labels visa issues ‘political interference in sport’
Iran’s World Cup 2026 squad landed in Mexico on Sunday amid a bitter diplomatic row, after the United States refused to issue visas for some team support staff.
The Iran coach, Amir Ghalenoei, complained on arrival at Tijuana airport that “we should have been here last week because a 12-hour time difference needs two weeks of adjusting. Usually in these tournaments, before technical matters, ethical and human considerations must be respected – which I think for us it was not the case.”
Continue reading...Jérôme Barella had been accused of rape in months before murder but series of delays meant police had failed to summon him for questioning
Thousands of mourners have turned out for a silent march for a 11-year-old schoolgirl whose murder prompted widespread outrage when it emerged police had failed to question the suspected killer about previous child sexual abuse allegations.
The parents of the girl, who has been named only as Lyhanna, led the cortege on Sunday in the south-western village of Fleurance behind a banner reading “Never again”. Most of those who marched, including children, wore white shirts or T-shirts, many bearing a smiling portrait of the young victim.
Continue reading...Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it echoed what Trump said of the shooting
Fired CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at his old network of interfering with a broadcast segment looking at an immigration officer’s killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good in January.
The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes be made soon before the airing of the segment in question.
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Dat een Nederlandse renster de Giro d’Italia ging winnen, was aan het begin van dit weekend wel duidelijk. Maar dat Demi Vollering in de slotetappe alsnog koploper Anna van der Breggen wist te kraken (met dank aan een Duitse concurrente), was toch een grote verrassing.
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'Het is altijd lente in de ogen van de tandartsassistente' is een iconische liedtekst, die iedereen kan meezingen. Toch kennen maar weinig mensen de artiest die het nummer uitbracht. Rotterdammer Peter de Koning (66) scoorde eind jaren '90 een megahit, maar verdween daarna bewust uit de schijnwerpers.
guineapig33 has added a photo to the pool:
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Film: Handsonfilm Midnight 1600
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Although the Japanese and Chinese languages are two distinct languages, they do still have some interesting similarities. One will note that both languages will make use of Chinese characters in their writing systems, although how it is actually used differs, of course.
For speakers of both languages, this can sometimes make it easier to make a rough guess of what it might mean, such as the character for meat, Niku (肉), shown in the photo here. One would likely infer that this would be a restaurant serving meat.
Minor auto adjustments in Adobe Lightroom were made only when necessary in order to preserve the original film roll colours.
BADHOEVEDORP (ANP) - Golfer Eugenio Chacarra heeft het KLM Open in Badhoevedorp op zijn naam geschreven. De 26-jarige Spanjaard eindigde met één slag voorsprong op de Fin Oliver Lindell. Golfer Lars van der Vight werd de beste Nederlander op de 38e plaats.
Chacarra deelde na drie ronden nog de leiding met de Zweed Sebastian Söderberg op -10. De Spanjaard eindigde zondag op -11 na een birdie op de laatste hole. Hij sloeg daarmee een late aanval van Lindell (-10) af. Söderberg werd gedeeld derde op -8. Het is voor Chacarra de tweede zege op de DP World Tour, oftewel de Europese Tour.
Van der Vight tekende op de laatste dag voor een score van 76 slagen (5 boven het baangemiddelde) en eindigde op een totaal van +1. Hij wist op de slotdag geen enkele birdie te maken. Toch hield hij Joost Luiten en de amateur Nevill Ruiter, de enige andere Nederlanders die de 'cut' haalden, ruimschoots achter zich.
Luiten, die zaterdag na een slechte ronde voor commotie zorgde door te zeggen dat hij overwoog om zijn caddie te vervangen, ging een dag later rond in 74 slagen (+3). Hij eindigde met een totaal van +6 op de zestigste plaats. Ruiter, de enige amateur in het weekend, leverde een kaart in van 78 slagen (+7). Hij besloot het toernooi als 66e.
MONACO (ANP/AFP) - Max Verstappen heeft opgelucht gereageerd dat geen van de andere coureurs op hem is gereden toen hij niet wegkwam bij de start van de Grote Prijs van Monaco in de Formule 1. "Gelukkig reageerde iedereen achter mij op de juiste wijze", zei hij tegen verschillende media. De viervoudig wereldkampioen van Red Bull moest meteen in de eerste ronde opgeven met een defect aan de motor.
"Tijdens de formatieronde voelde het al niet helemaal goed", zei Verstappen over zijn Red Bull. "Bij de proefstart was het helemaal mis. Er was geen stabiliteit en kort daarop viel de motor helemaal stil." Hij kon zijn wagen net nog een beetje naar links sturen.
Verstappen kon met moeite van zijn plek komen nadat alle auto's hem voorbij waren gegaan. "Pas bij de eerste bocht kreeg ik een beetje vermogen terug, maar de motor klonk heel slecht. Ik kon niet voluit gaan, dus heb ik de auto naar de pits gereden."
Van alle domme ideeën is het waanbeeld dat een goede voetballer vanzelfsprekend ook een goede trainer is een van de hardnekkigste. Zie bijvoorbeeld: Marco van Basten, Dirk Kuyt, John Heitinga, Danny Blind, Ruud Gullit, Jaap Stam, Ruud van Nistelrooij. Omdat bij voetbalclubs vaak volidioten werken die ook maar wat doen, blijft de geschiedenis zich herhalen. Omdat bij Feyenoord op 1 juli twee directeuren (Dévy Rigaux en Robert Eenhoorn) beginnen die geen volidioten zijn, mag Van Persie vast zijn biezen pakken. Dat is: sneu voor hem, maar ook volkomen terecht, en leuk voor alle supporters van de club. Gefeliciteerd ermee, jongens.
Pallet Wood Crafting Table
One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. Jason builds amazing things out of pallet wood.
I'm far from his skill, but he taught me not to throw away or just burn pallets. The wood might look shabby but with a bit of work you can make it into something beautiful.
As fate would have it, Kaddi wanted a dedicated crafting table in the office and at the same time I had some pallets from recent deliveries - so why not give it a go and make a table from them.
Processing pallets doesn't take much skill, just time. The hardest part is to take them apart and remove the nails without breaking the wood. From there on the process is:
- send each board through the thickness planer until all boards are somewhat clean and have the same thickness
- straighten the edges, ideally using a jointer, but I find the table saw to be good enough
- glue the boards into panels using lots of clamps
- fill in all the holes and imperfections with dowels and/or wood filler
- sand everything. first with the belt sander at 80 grit and then with the orbital sander up to 240 grit
Of course, each of these steps takes longer than you think. At least longer than a YouTube montage makes you think it would. But I find it really meditative. It's a great way to relax after a full day of mental work. Just do something with your hands, listen to a podcast and push boards through the planer…
For the crafting table, I started with the table top. To make it look beefier than it is and give it a little more stability, I framed the two visible edges with a 2×1 which I routed into an L-shape and joined with a miter.
Part of the top reaches over the heating radiator, so I added a ventilation grate. The grate itself is 3D printed, using a hexagon pattern matching the theme of our office and because hexagons are bestagons.
The table top is held up by two side panels connected by a large shelf. I will probably create custom inserts for the shelf at a later point. Maybe some drawers, maybe some larger containers.
Of course I had to fuck up somewhere and my measurements were off – the whole shelf was like 5cm too wide. I had to cut it and glue it up again. That was annoying.
For finish, I decided to keep the desktop's pallet origins visible and just oil it – that also matches our main plain wood desks. The sides and shelf are painted with the same chalk paint we painted our printer cupboard with.
So far, I am happy with the build. The thing I'm most worried about, is warping. We'll see how it goes. If it all goes wrong, I might try to route some channels in the top's underside and embed some steel bands as I have seen on commercial tables.
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Ukraine Is Not Losing. Russia Is Not Winning. [Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic | Archive]
Since 2022, many public arguments about the war, even in Europe and the U.S., have adopted the narrative put out by Russian propaganda, tacitly assuming that Ukraine, outmanned and outgunned, would eventually lose. Helping Ukraine was a way to stave off disaster, nothing more. When the Trump administration stopped sending military and financial aid to Kyiv in 2025, some in Washington expected (and maybe wanted) the end to come quickly. ... Suddenly, many people have understood that the Russian narrative is wrong: The Ukrainians are not losing. The Russians are not winning, and more important, they don't know how to win. Ukrainians and outside analysts have described this dynamic in three main theaters of the war.----- Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 6, 2026 [Institute for the Study of War]
[Topline:] Different sources continue to conclude that the Russian military's performance is declining, despite utilizing differing mapping methodologies to visualize the battlefield situation.----- Putin's options after the war has stalled [Anders Puck Nielsen | YouTube]
Putin's four options and how to evaluate them 2:37 Accept defeat 5:53 Freeze the conflict 8:48 Mass mobilization 10:56 Escalate against NATO