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Dutch election: How liberals could now usurp far-right in Netherlands The Netherlands looks set for a new era of modern Dutch politics, as the final votes are counted following a combative election campaign.

🗣️ The Netherlands looks set for a swing back to the centre ground after an election that has seen the liberals making the biggest gains.
But the far-right, though down, are by no means out.

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「私の国で起きていることは、いずれ世界のほかの国でも起きる」

2023年の本ですが、ここ数日どうしてもこれを貼っておかなければならない気がして。

ノーベル平和賞受賞ジャーナリスト。
フィリピンで、調査報道に基づいた政権批判により世界的に注目された著者の戦いの記録です。
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‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’ He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scr...

‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’ www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”. The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities. Continue reading...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

Ron Hutchinson's Rat in the Skull is one of the great Troubles plays, one of the great plays about Irish in London, too - a classic. He makes an excellent living as a Hollywood script doctor, but I wish he'd come back more often..

British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

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Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last Tape

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Prunella Scales obituary Versatile stage and screen actor who found TV comedy fame as Sybil Fawlty and later played Elizabeth II on stage

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Prunella Scales – a life in pictures Best known for her comic roles, including the fearsome Sybil in Fawlty Towers, the actor has died aged 93. Here we look back at her life and career

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Prunella Scales was a queen of comedy with a passion for classical theatre The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett

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Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman and Broadway smash ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ feature in the Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season The UK’s leading new writing theatre pulls out all of the stops for a birthday season that mixes classics old and new

Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman and Broadway smash ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ feature in the Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Royal Court Theatre Announces 70th Anniversary Season for 2026 The Royal Court Theatre has unveiled its 70th anniversary programme, promising a year-long celebration of new writing, landmark revivals, and ambitious national initiatives

The Royal Court Theatre has unveiled its 70th anniversary programme, promising a year-long celebration of new writing, landmark revivals, and ambitious national initiatives

YouTube video by The Guardian The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage | Anywhere but Westminster

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Farage: epic grifter

Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history

Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer Seamus Heaney’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity, and rooted in the tragedies of history, writes @fotoole.bsky.social.
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Musk sank Twitter, but his $44bn purchase has fuelled his... Three years since the world’s richest man rebranded the social media platform as X, it is awash with racism and conspiracy theories – but remains a power...

Three years ago today, Elon Musk completed his $44 billion purchase of Twitter. For @theobserveruk.bsky.social, I’ve asked: how’s that going, then?
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YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Bruce Springsteen on his landmark album "Nebraska"

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The Unbelievers is a swirling study of how catastrophe al... Nicola Walker is extraordinary in Nick Payne’s drama about a woman forever changed by the disappearance of her teenage son

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Campus drama Safe Space tackles the statue wars head-on Jamie Bogyo’s promising but unrefined debut play explores the political climate of the 2016 Yale protests

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‘Democrat saviour’ or ‘commie bastard’: Zohran Mamdani pr... On the campaign trail with the 34-year-old socialist set to become the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor – who may be the left’s greatest hope and biggest t...

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Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

My piece from Stockholm on the closure of Elverket, the experimental stage of Dramaten (the royal dramatic theatre), and its final production, Hamlet

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‘When I told him I’d secretly seen his films, his eyes filled with tears’: Isabella Rossellini remembers her father Roberto The Italian director’s career was briefly derailed when his ‘scandalous’ affair with the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman hit the headlines in the 1950s. Their daughter Isabella remembers a devoted parent and a brilliant film-maker

‘When I told him I’d secretly seen his films, his eyes filled with tears’: Isabella Rossellini remembers her father Roberto

Master at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures Davies, who died in 2023, was the director of masterworks such as The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth, and Distant Voices, Still Lives; we go behind the scenes of some of his acclaimed films

Master at work: on set with celebrated British film director Terence Davies – in pictures www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

Updating my LEGO White House

Plays - Library of America Introduction by John Lahr

This beautiful volume, a longtime passion project of my husband's, is out now. If you don't know the work of John Guare, treat yourself--he's one of our most important, funny, and original playwrights. (And as a bonus, the book includes his great Atlantic City screenplay!) www.loa.org/books/plays/

BBG NEWS NI BBC News NI y @BBCNewsNI X.com BREAKING: Soldier F, a former member of the Parachute Regiment has been found not guilty of murder and attempted murder in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.

Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.

British army veteran found not guilty of Bloody Sunday murders Soldier F was on trial in relation to events in Derry in 1972 when Parachute regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters A British army veteran has been found not guilty of murder in relation to Bloody Sunday, when the Parachute regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters in Derry in 1972. Soldier F was on trial for two murders and five attempted murders during a defining event of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Continue reading...

British army veteran found not guilty of Bloody Sunday murders