Who is winning the war in Iran? For the first few days of the conflict — during which the United States and Israel rained hellfire down on residential blocks, military sites and civilian infrastructure, and assassinated key political figures including the Supreme Leader — few would have said Tehran. As the world’s most powerful militaries […]
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When Royal Mail workers hear about their job in the news these days, it tends to be only bad news. When poor delivery rates, collapsing service quality or Ofcom statements are reported with depressing regularity, the workforce are seeing what they’ve known for too long. But what helps even less is the response from Royal […]
A senior Iranian security official has accused Israel of orchestrating a “false flag” operation in Oman, claiming the attack was designed to inflame tensions between Tehran and Gulf states and undermine regional diplomacy.
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On Thursday 7 May, voters across Britain will go to the polls. In Wales and Scotland, voters will elect their devolved parliaments; in England, almost 5,000 councillors will be elected in local authorities from Plymouth on the south-west coast to Tyneside in the north-east. In London, all 32 boroughs will hold all-out elections, with every council […]
In early February, Turkmen media reported on a development tracked by FlightRadar24, noting that US Air Force transport aircraft C-17A Globemaster III and MC-130 Super Hercules had landed at an undisclosed location inside Turkmenistan. Of particular concern was the arrival of the MC-130 Super Hercules, which is used for transporting special forces units, as well as performing night operations.
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In a desperate bid to censor further documentation of the damage inflicted by Iranian missiles and drones, the Bahraini authorities are pursuing a legal campaign targeting what they call “high betrayal” for filming the ongoing retaliatory strikes. Bahrain’s Public Prosecution seeks to implement the “death penalty” and are operating on the basis that they will pursue violators “without the slightest mercy”.
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The British pub, in all its rich diversity and versatility, has long been an undisputed central component of life on this island. Despite this, hospitality as a sector has been historically neglected as a site of political and industrial struggle, instead playing host to drinking sessions after the ‘real work’ has taken place. Nonetheless, the sector […]
In 2022, Dame Tracey Emin — the art world’s former darling enfant terrible — requested that the government remove one of her artworks from 10 Downing Street. The piece in question, More Passion (2010), was a neon sign previously gifted to the government’s art collection when David Cameron was in office in 2011. It was […]
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
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The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves
Every year, the global campaign organised by the Union for International Cancer Control invites people affected by cancer to share their personal experiences as part of World Cancer Day. These stories provide an important human perspective on the realities of cancer. They help build solidarity, encourage early diagnosis, and ensure the voices of patients, survivors, families and carers are heard around the world.
If you are the sort of person who noticed that Keir Starmer appointed former British head of Amazon Doug Gerr to lead the Competition and Markets Authority and wondered how that could possibly be right, then Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It might be the book for […]
“The threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” — Will Saltan, The Bulwark
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Listen up here, you jobless paid agitators. The US had to attack Iran because Iran has been an imminent threat to the US for forty-seven years. Some critics will probably say that a forty-seven-year-old threat doesn’t sound so imminent and that I don’t know what the word even means, or have never seen a dictionary, and don’t really understand how language works. To them I say: photosynthesis. Followed by: This is not the time for linguistic nitpicking.
Written by guest blogger María Fernanda Silva
Something is shifting in how organizations think about AI. The early excitement around what it could do is giving way to a harder, more important question: how do you build AI that actually holds up — at scale, under pressure, and over time?
On 14 May 2026, New York City becomes the place where that question gets answered. The Drupal AI Summit brings together enterprise leaders, digital decision-makers, and senior practitioners from across the US and Europe — not to explore AI in theory, but to share what responsible, durable AI looks like in practice.
“Death toll in Middle East surpasses 1,100 as missile strikes continue.”
— The Independent
Gas prices continue to surge in the US, rising 14 percent in a week."
— New York Times
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Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump.
It’s confusing, but our explainer has you covered.
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Unfortunately, the appearance of armies of the dead, awakened to wage indiscriminate war on all humankind, could potentially push gasoline beyond $3.50 per gallon.
False media reports of thousands of Kurdish fighters launching a ground offensive against Iran ended up endangering the very people living under the bombs, reports Dr Charles Kriel
I’ve made contracts with every sort of lowlife. I’ve been to the crossroads. I’ve been down to Georgia. I’ve signed agreements with legions of lawyers, living, as I do, in the details, and ended up with the souls of everyone except Daniel Webster, that prig-tastic blowhole.
But Donald Trump? Not worth it.
Maybe you thought I already owned Trump’s soul. How else could someone so gob-smackingly incompetent fail upward all the way to a second presidential term? But social media, misogyny, and the ever-loving shit show known as the also gob-smackingly incompetent “Democratic Party”—that’s on you, humans. As folks in our Fifth Circle say about Trump, “Wow, does his shit stink.” And that place reeks so bad, the demons wear gas masks.
It’s a truism that every child should be wanted. While there are plenty of exceptions, the birth of an unwanted child often turns out badly for both mother and child (and father, if they are present). Sometimes, once a child is born, the fact that they were initially unwanted fades into irrelevance, and the bond […]
Across the West, corporate media have employed the same tactics of using the passive voice and not naming the perpetrator when describing U.S./Israeli aggression. A perfect encapsulation of this was the BBC’s headline, “At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says,” that made it sound as if the children died in a lightning strike or a labor dispute, rather than that they were bombed by hostile foreign powers.
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Over on the Doctor Who website, UNIT offered a very interesting note/update on Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) is fueling serious fan speculation.
The Central American nation never fully recovered from the loss of its megafauna
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How to tackle a common kitchen problem with fluid dynamics
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