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Nu zou de voormalig minister van Volksgezondheid en de burgemeester van Manchester een onwaarschijnlijke deal kunnen sluiten om Keir Starmer af te zetten Wie zei dat de Labour-partij "een strijd van ideeën nodig heeft, niet van persoonlijkheden of kleinstondig factionalisme... Het moet breed zijn, en het heeft het best mogelijke veld van kandidaten nodig"? Tot vanochtend zou bijna iedereen deze woorden hebben toegeschreven aan Andy Burnham, de burgemeester van Greater Manchester. Maar dit waren de slotalinea's van de ontslagbrief van voormalig minister van Volksgezondheid Wes Streeting, een ritme dat zo sterk lijkt op dat van Burnham dat het geen toeval kan zijn. Lees verder...

Rey is teaching Sunny, aged about two weeks, all her adopted baby needs to know to fend for herselfBefore last month, a young southern sea otter named Rey would never have imagined she would be a mother.That changed when she met Sunny, a pup – about two weeks old – found orphaned and alone on Asilomar state beach in February. The pairing went off without a hitch. Continue reading...

This year’s conference had plenty of newsworthy aspects, but it’s a mystery why the press fails to talk about itThe 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group, the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories, was held at the weekend in Washington DC. A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit, which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the intellectual engine room of Nato, took place this year at a time of immense crisis and uncertainty for the alliance. In recent weeks, with Trump threatening at every turn to withdraw from the “paper tiger” of Nato, the “Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial Relationship” (as it’s called on the agenda) has reached a strained breaking point. Continue reading...