Bezuinigen op diplomatie, door bijvoorbeeld vier Nederlandse ambassades te sluiten, is „onverstandig” in deze tijden van onrustige geopolitiek, concludeert de AIV in een nieuw rapport. Kies liever voor het harmonicamodel, stelt de adviesraad: een minimale bezetting die later weer is uit te breiden.
A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively engaged in the enshittification playbook” (many post-acquisition by private equity), including Dr. Martens, Pyrex, Hoka, rag & bone, Ray-Ban, Black+Decker, Hunter Boot, Craftsmen, and more.

Dat was natuurlijk wel te verwachten aangezien ze vrij weinig zin hadden om weer aan wal te stappen van het land van Rob Jetten: de dobberboot die bij Zeeland uit het water werd geplukt ging vanaf Nederlands grondgebied het water op. Dat meldt het Openbaar Ministerie. Vermoedelijk was het ding op weg naar Engeland, maar dat bleek zonder motor iets teveel gevraagd. Er zaten 38 personen op de boot: 36 man uit Afghanistan en 2 knakkers uit Soedan. De Soedanezen zijn aangehouden voor mensensmokkel. Zes van de opvarenden waren minderjarig, zij zijn naar Ter Apel gebracht.
Concerns remain that media industry is still failing to confront troubling behaviour
• The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist
Even within the culture of casual misogyny and sexism that pervaded the TV world in the mid-noughties, Naomi Harvey and her colleagues concluded they needed to do something about Russell Brand.
Harvey was one of a team of researchers tasked with finding fans of Big Brother, Channel 4’s reality TV juggernaut, to appear on the discussion show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, hosted by Brand.
Continue reading...Facing a slump in the polls, Javier Milei is making economic attacks on the Falkland Islands' oil industry and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next. In a UN speech, the Argentinian president claimed that the UK's offshore oil development, the Sea Lion Project, was illegal, and threatened to take action against it
Continue reading...In Michigan, support for Israel was a kind of political hologram. But the media often made it seem real
Among the things that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory last night in the Michigan Senate race revealed is this: the debate over US policy toward Israel does not primarily pit the left versus the right. It pits the top versus the bottom.
There was no grassroots enthusiasm in the state for maintaining US military aid and weapons sales to Israel. That view no longer commands support even among ordinary Republicans. There was instead a massive infusion of pro-Israel money, mostly from extremely wealthy people.
Peter Beinart is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, editor at large at Jewish Currents, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter. His most recent book is Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
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