Het kabinet werkt aan een verbod op handel in goederen afkomstig uit illegale Israëlische nederzettingen. Het kabinet heeft besloten een tijdelijk sanctiebesluit aanhangig te doen maken bij de Raad van State voor een spoedadvies.
Monika Sie Dhian Ho, Marco Pastors en Viola Bex-Reimert worden lid van de Adviesraad Migratie. De ministerraad heeft hiermee ingestemd op voorstel van minister Van den Brink van Asiel en Migratie. De benoemingen gaan in per 1 september 2026.
Forgive me if I’m not congratulating officers for investigating Andrew now – instead of, say, many years ago when they were with him in Jeffrey Epstein’s house
How noble that Thames Valley police has let it be known that its misconduct-in-public-office investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is also considering potential offences including corruption and sexual misconduct. On Friday, it made a public appeal for potential victims and witnesses to come forward.
Obviously, the best time for the police to have started quietly asking questions was shortly after Metropolitan police officers – Andrew’s close protection detail – ferried him back from a London nightclub to a house with some other friends in their 40s, and one young-looking 17-year-old girl. Then waited outside till he decided it was time to come home. But as the saying goes: the second-best time is now. No wait, the second-best time was probably when Andrew paid a reported £12m to settle out of court with Virginia Giuffre, despite maintaining he had no recollection of meeting her. (He denies any wrongdoing.) Ach no, the second-best time was when leaked emails suggest the former prince passed his Met close protection officer Giuffre’s birthdate and US social security number and asked him to carry out checks on her. Sorry, wrong again, the second-best time was a full 12 years ago, when Giuffre alleged that she was sex trafficked to and assaulted by Andrew on that night mentioned above, as well as on two other occasions.
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Continue reading...A lower-ABV highball that brings together cherry cola, red wine and Italy’s favourite bitter artichoke aperitif
Our highball menu at Circle 13 champions lower-ABV pours for relaxed evenings of petanque. This one’s a favourite at our park takeovers, as well as a nod to the Basque-inspired pintxo kitchen at our first permanent site in east London.
Marc Sarton Du Jonchay, Circle 13, London E2
Continue reading...His starring role in Richard Gadd’s brutal toxic masculinity series is a far cry from his days as Billy Elliot. The actor opens up about gruelling shoots, dancing on toilets – and why he can’t ever just chill out
Not many actors are relieved when they have to film an eye-poppingly explicit sex scene, but that was the case with Jamie Bell on Half Man. His role involved chemsex in saunas, dogging in car parks and illicit quickies in library loos. “Honestly, I was so grateful to be shooting that stuff and not fucking 16-page dialogue scenes, where you’re emoting and it’s so intense,” says Bell. “On days when my character had to have sex with random people, I’d think: ‘Thank God!’ Frankly, it came as a welcome reprieve.”
Richard Gadd’s first TV show since the Emmy-gobbling global Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, Half Man chronicles the combustible, codependent relationship between two “brothers from another lover”. Niall (Bell) is bookish, bullied and closeted. Ruben (Gadd) is the swaggeringly violent ex-con son of his mother’s girlfriend. The six-part drama – which reaches its devastating finale next week – traces the inseparable duo’s toxic relationship across three decades.
Continue reading...The world’s richest man can’t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong’o was chosen to play an imaginary woman
It was the casting choice that launched a thousand meltdowns. The Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o was confirmed as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, and the usual suspects immediately started squealing that the fall of western civilization was nigh.
Elon Musk, a man in possession of the world’s thinnest skin and fattest bank account, is obviously among the aggrieved. Musk started moaning about The Odyssey in January, when it was rumoured that Nyong’o had the role. Since a 12 May interview with Nolan in Time magazine made this casting official, Musk hasn’t stopped whining; he’s spent roughly a week attacking Nyong’o on X and amplifying other angry bigots. His main arguments appear to be that this is a historically inaccurate rendering of a mythological poem; Nyong’o, who was named People magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman” in 2014, is not sufficiently beautiful; and the casting of a Black woman in a movie nobody is forcing him to watch is inextricably intertwined with a leftwing plot to undermine western society.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Bunting from hospital sheets, drawings on letters from the DWP, an installation made of damp: a new exhibition celebrates art that takes the challenges the artists have faced and turns them into drivers of creativity
“I’m having a flare-up’, is a really common phrase that you hear in the ‘crip’ community,” says Mariana Lemos, the co-curator of Flare Up, a group exhibition focused on art powered by illness, chronic conditions, disability, neurodivergence and deafness. The show includes artists who do and don’t identify as ‘crip’ (a defiant reclaiming of derogatory slang) and underlines the ebb and flow of symptoms to explore illness as anything but static. A flare, adds Lemos’s collaborator Natasha Hoare, “brings light to things that have been kept in the dark, ignored or invisible-ised. There’s a sense of celebration to it, perhaps.”
This would seem to be the case for French artist Benoît Piéron, a leading figure among artists addressing illness and who now also has a big solo show at Paris’s edgiest art space, Palais de Tokyo. In Flare Up, his pastel bunting crisscrosses a ceiling, before pooling on the floor in a heap, its energy apparently drained. Cut from hospital sheets, the party flags defy the infantilised days of the bedbound. The fabric, in its typically soothing nursery colours, has also soaked up the seeping life of the bodies it hides: be that fever sweats or sex. Piéron’s subtle, poetic reminder of the physical reality of an ill person, as well as the ups and downs of a chronic condition, is typical across the exhibition’s witty, ever-surprising artworks.
Continue reading...Memoir tells how the Jewish and Catholic parents of actor Isabelle and Caroline Huppert fell in love amid the rise of the Nazis. She explains why she wanted her ‘children’s children’ to know the story
Families have a way of appointing their own historians, even if the recruitment process remains obscure. In the late 1990s, Caroline Huppert – the fourth of five siblings, of whom the youngest is actor Isabelle – found herself alone with her father and a tape recorder. Over five days, he opened up about his life before and during the second world war. “I think I had that privileged position with him, because he had a taste for history, too,” she says. “But we didn’t have the same vision. I like the approach of what is called the nouvelle histoire, things like details of daily life in the past. With him, it was more emperors, kings, dates.”
More than 25 years later, their exchanges have led to her memoir, Une Histoire Cachée (A Hidden Story), a work that bundles up quotidian intimacy and big-ticket history in telling the story of how her parents, Raymond and Annick, fell in love. Their relationship so easily might never have happened: he was Jewish, she Catholic, and after they met in 1934 at Paris’s HEC business school, her haute-bourgeois family were opposed to them marrying. A big enough obstacle even before the Nazis invade France, and the young lovers are forced to flee the capital for the Free Zone near Lake Annecy. “I wasn’t aware of any of it in the least,” says the 75-year-old on a phone call from her home in Paris. “My parents weren’t people who talked about the past. They were always absorbed in the present, in action.”
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Holaaaa señores, señoras en henhunnos. Heel erg buenos nieuwsos heden dios voor Europa. Na Australië, India en de Mercosurlanden in Zuid-Amerika zet Ursula(cucaracha) von der Leyen vandaag een handtekening onder een nieuwe GROTE HANDELSDEAL en wel met het altijd gezellige Mexico. Dat worden heerlijk goedkope taco's, burrito's en natuurlijk MEXICANO'S voor ons en heerlijk goedkope Goudse kaas, bratwurst en andere dingen die er niet hetzelfde uitzien voor en na consumptie voor Mexico. Daarnaast is het goed nieuws voor de importeurs van fluoriet, bismut en antimoon en dat is maar goed ook, want wij zeggen altijd: een dag zonder fluoriet, bismut en antimoon is een dag niet geleefd. Kortom, grandes fiesta por alle partidos. ARRIBAAAA!
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SpaceX called off the launch of its huge Starship rocket seconds before liftoff due to a ground equipment problem. The countdown clock reached a planned hold at T-40 seconds after a relatively trouble-free process. Some iffy weather had cleared, and everything looked good for the twelfth Starship test flight - the first try-out for the latest generation of the vehicle and launchpad. Alas, it was not to be. After repeatedly resetting the countdown clock to the T-40 second mark due to problems, which included warnings from sensors on the quick-disconnect arm on the launch pad and issues with the pad's water diverter, SpaceX eventually threw in the towel and scrubbed the launch. Boss man Elon Musk blamed the scrub on the ground equipment, and posted on X: "The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract." Musk wrote that if the issue could be fixed, SpaceX will try again later today. The next window opens at 5:30 pm CT, according to the billionaire. Considering that this was the first launch attempt from a new pad and the first of this vehicle's iteration, the countdown problems are unsurprising. As such, getting to the T-40 second mark was an achievement in its own right. Sadly, the team had only a few minutes to deal with the problems, since the propellant loading was complete and the fuel temperature could not be maintained for long. Expectations are high for this mission. Despite years of development and Musk's promises, Starship is still non-operational, and its launches remain on suborbital trajectories during its test phase. The vehicle has quite a way to go before it can play a part in NASA's goal of landing a crew on the Moon. According to the company's recent IPO filing, "We expect Starship to commence payload delivery to orbit in the second half of 2026." The second half of 2026 is only weeks away, so it'll be an interesting few months. The IPO filing also states that Musk's performance-based restricted shares in SpaceX vest upon the establishment of a permanent human colony on Mars "with at least one million inhabitants." First, however, the SpaceX needs to get to Mars. During the scrubbed launch attempt, it announced that crypto billionaire Chun Wang, who commanded the Fram2 private human spaceflight mission in 2025, would be on the crew for a future flyby of the red planet. Hopefully, Wang's jaunt to Mars won't end up canceled like the dearMoon project, a mission to the Moon financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. The project was unveiled in 2018, but was eventually canceled in 2024. Starship has yet to hit Earth orbit, let alone head to the Moon. ®
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GENÈVE (ANP/RTR) - In de Democratische Republiek Congo (DRC) is het aantal vermoedelijke ebolabesmettingen opgelopen naar bijna 750 en ligt het aantal verdachte overlijdens op 177, meldt Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO). Bij 82 personen is besmetting met ebola bevestigd. "Maar we weten dat de epidemie in de DRC veel groter is", aldus de topman op X.
De WHO stuurt extra personeel naar de provincie Ituri in Congo, het epicentrum van de ebola-uitbraak. Ghebreyesus noemt de situatie in het land "zeer zorgwekkend" en "geweld en onveiligheid" belemmeren volgens hem de bestrijding. Donderdag werden tenten voor ebolapatiënten in brand gestoken, omdat het lichaam van een vermoedelijk slachtoffer niet werd vrijgegeven. Nabestaanden geloofden niet dat hij aan ebola was overleden.
Naast Congo zijn er ook ebolagevallen in Oeganda vastgesteld. Volgens Ghebreyesus is de situatie in dat land stabiel, met twee bevestigde gevallen en een gerapporteerd sterfgeval.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Landbouwminister Jaimi van Essen stelt zijn plan dat ervoor moet zorgen dat grond- en oppervlaktewater minder worden vervuild door mest met een halfjaar uit. De D66-bewindsman verschuift de deadline van 1 januari naar 1 juli 2027. Dat doet hij omdat hij de mestregels wil laten aansluiten op beleidsvoorstellen op het gebied van stikstof die hij over een paar weken bekend zal maken.
"Ik denk dat het heel verstandig is om te zorgen dat die dingen goed op elkaar afgestemd zijn", aldus de D66-bewindsman na afloop van de ministerraad.
Nederland moet door Europese afspraken elke vier jaar een plan maken met maatregelen om te voldoen aan de Nitraatrichtlijn. Het verwachte achtste actieprogramma was al een keer uitgesteld door het vorige kabinet-Schoof, omdat bewindslieden het onderling niet eens werden. Van Essen heeft in Brussel laten weten dat het plan nu weer is uitgesteld. Tot het nieuwe plan van kracht wordt, blijft het huidige actieprogramma van kracht.
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Ayu Fishing
鮎釣り
On April 20th, the ayu fishing season opened in the Okitsu River system. The cosmos garden near my home is a popular spot, and many anglers were there. It seems they caught quite a few fish.
4/20 興津川水系は鮎釣りの解禁となりました。コスモス園の所は人気で、多くの釣り人が訪れていました。この写真の左側がコスモスとフジバカマを植えている所です。結構、釣れたようです。
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka pref, Japan