
Wij zeggen niet dat generatie-expert Kim Jansen voorstander is van grensoverschrijdend gedrag op de werkvloer, dat zegt generatie-expert Kim Jansen zelf, tot onvrede van de gemeenschap van generatie-experts. In die contreien woedt al langer discussie over generaties, zoals jongeren en ouderen. Verschillen ze onderling? Hoe verhouden ze zich tot elkaar? Superinteressante materie. Dan is er één kamp dat heel nadrukkelijk tegenstander is van grensoverschrijdend gedrag, daaronder bevinden zich onder andere generatie-expert Ronaldo, generatie-expert Schots, scheef, generatie-expert Spartacus, generatie-expert Zorro en generatie-expert Dorbeck. Maar er zijn ook generatie-experts die grenzen meer als een signaal of suggestie zien dan als daadwerkelijke grenzen, en dan kom je dus aan bij mensen als generatie-expert Mosterd of generatie-expert Kim Jansen. "Je grenzen opzoeken, daar een beetje overheen gaan," dat is juist leerzaam, aldus laatstgenoemde. En: "Het is goed om je grenzen af en toe op te rekken." Gestoord! Nu we het toch over generatie-expert Kim Jansen hebben: daar komt echt alleen de allervoorspelbaarste clichékots uit, hoe bestaat het toch dat zo iemand iedere dag naar haar werk gaat en dan dit doet, en nu we het er toch over hebben, wat bezielt zo'n krant om een volwassen Verslaggever arbeidsmarkt iemand op te laten zoeken die met recht de Eddy Merckx van de luchtfietserij genoemd kan worden, is dat niet ook een tikje grensoverschrijdend.
Strong figures suggest Tesla’s auto business is regaining momentum after two straight annual sales declines
Tesla blew past Wall Street estimates for second-quarter deliveries on Thursday, posting a record for the period as recovering demand in Europe outweighed persistent weakness in North America.
The strong figures suggest Tesla’s mainstay auto business is regaining momentum after two straight annual sales declines, providing the spending cushion needed to power its ambitions in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence – the main drivers of the company’s roughly $1.6tn valuation.
Continue reading...Just before being kicked out of No 10, the PM is dreaming of lifting the World Cup for a nation – and political immortality
The dream lives on. With 15 minutes left against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta, England were in danger of going out of the World Cup. The defeat would have been one of the more humiliating exits from an international tournament the team had experienced. But with heads going down and nerves shattered, up stepped Harry Kane with a couple of goals. The second, sublime. Captain Fantastic. Thank goodness Spurs had the foresight to send him out on loan to Bayern Munich to polish his finishing skills.
The dream in question, of course, is Keir Starmer’s. For months now, he might have spent the first few minutes of every day staring at his wall chart, plotting England’s journey so that he becomes only the second prime minister after Harold Wilson to lead his country through World Cup glory, and maintain the record of the men’s team only winning a major international tournament under a Labour government. For that alone, Keir would go down in history as one of the immortals. Guaranteed the eternal thanks of a grateful nation. A state funeral in the bag. This would be his most lasting legacy.
Continue reading...An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them
After my adoptive father died in November last year, my adoptive siblings found a short story by Enid Blyton among his possessions. The Child Who Was Chosen was read to us as children to explain the circumstances of my adoption. It follows a nice middle-class couple whose domestic bliss is marred by childlessness, prompting them to go to a “very kind lady” who helps them to find a “chosen baby” instead. In its foreword, Blyton advises adoptive parents to tell the tale to their adopted child “again and again … so that to him ‘adoption’ means something lovely”.
The “chosen child” narrative, where parents tell adoptees they were specially picked, helped to shape the still widespread public perception of adoption as unambiguously altruistic. But it has also long been criticised by adult adoptees for masking the trauma of separation from their original parents. Reading Blyton’s saccharine story, I was struck by its glaring omissions. There is no mention of how the boy, who is unnamed until he is adopted, came to be put up for adoption; nor any suggestion that he once had another family and identity. There is no recognition of his first mother or her loss, only the loneliness of the prospective adoptive mother. The woman from the adoption agency also tells the couple that if this child isn’t the one they really want, she will find another one – as though she’s running a baby market.
David Batty is a news editor and writer for the Guardian
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Continue reading...Participant-led YPS scheme creates green projects while providing summer jobs in country with high youth unemployment
Oona Verveld and Clara Vikberg have just secured their first paid summer jobs. While their peers are mostly limited to entry-level positions in retail or fast-food restaurants, the 18-year-olds are some of the first among their generation to have landed a new type of role: young planetary stewards.
“Someone came up with the simple idea that, since young people clearly need jobs, why not create them?” says My Sellberg, the project manager and programme lead for regenerative development at Upplandsbygd, a non-profit based north of Stockholm. “The strongest objective was to inspire hope for the future among our young residents.”
Continue reading...‘Rooftopers’ Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov were arrested after allegedly scaling the New York skyscraper
Two Russian “rooftoppers” who staged an apparent marriage proposal at the peak of the Empire State Building’s spire were reportedly arraigned in New York on Thursday on a slew of charges including reckless endangerment.
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov were arrested on Wednesday after the stunt, which featured the pair, dressed in all black, unfurling a peace banner and kissing.
Continue reading...KYIV (ANP/AFP) - Door nachtelijke Russische aanvallen op de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kyiv zijn ten minste 21 doden gevallen, melden de hulpdiensten. Daarnaast zouden 85 mensen gewond zijn geraakt, onder wie twee kinderen. Eerder werden zeventien doden gemeld.
De burgemeester van Kyiv zei eerder dat de aanvallen de grootste op de hoofdstad tot nu toe waren. Volgens president Volodymyr Zelensky was Rusland al enige tijd bezig met het voorbereiden van de aanvallen.
EU-buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas zei de druk op Rusland verder te willen opvoeren vanwege de aanvallen. Zelensky benadrukte dat militaire hulp aan Oekraïne "een absolute en cruciale prioriteit" is. Oekraïne zal "zeker" terugslaan, aldus Zelensky.
Zelensky zei ook contact te hebben opgenomen met de Verenigde Staten en te hebben gevraagd om licenties om Patriot-luchtafweerrakketten te produceren. Dat Amerikaanse luchtafweersysteem is een van de weinige manieren die Oekraïne heeft om zich te beschermen tegen Russische ballistische raketten.
DAMASCUS (ANP/AFP) - Door een bomexplosie in de Syrische hoofdstad Damascus zijn zeker vijf doden gevallen. Nog eens zestien mensen raakten gewond, melden de Syrische autoriteiten.
De bom ging af in een café nabij het Paleis van Justitie, een belangrijk overheidsgebouw. Door de explosie ontstond er veel paniek in de omgeving.
In Damascus worden vaker aanslagen gepleegd sinds het regime van Bashar al-Assad in december 2024 werd verdreven. De dodelijkste aanval was in juni 2025, toen bij een aanval op een kerk 25 mensen stierven. Die aanslag werd opgeëist door een lokale soennitische groepering, terwijl de autoriteiten de Islamitische Staat verantwoordelijk hielden.
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling. It is a shimmering legal gas that settles wherever conservatives need it most…”