Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
phwoar, belter from Yamamoto! #INDvJPN
“…by ignoring the spirit if not the letter of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S.* is endangering the lives of service members in this and subsequent conflicts.”
*and Australia
Here’s me in the Guardian today.
The Aukus submarine pact has dragged Australia into the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran in all but name. This was all entirely forseeable.
Qatar will not restart production until there is a complete cessation of hostilities: “the signal is when our military says there is a complete stop of hostilities and we are not being attacked anymore. We are not going to put our people in harm’s way.”
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more statements coming out re: Iran’s women’s national team. @fifpro.bsky.social Asia/Oceania is calling on #FIFA and the #AFC to uphold their human rights obligations and protect the players.
How the Guardian is using GenAI Chris Moran Wed 4 Mar 2026 13.15 GMT Prefer the Guardian on Google Over the past three years AI has triggered a societal shift and we are sure that many of our readers are using it in their own lives or work. News has been at the forefront of these discussions. It is impacting our business model as AI summaries start answering news queries on search engines and chatbots. It is also raising questions about truth, veracity and plausible deniability, and debate about how – or whether – news organisations should use AI in their journalism. Here at the Guardian, there has been extensive internal discussion about how we can benefit from this fast-developing technology while protecting our authenticity and our values. We take pride in our bylined journalism, grounded in the human experience. However ‘intelligent’ AI may appear, it doesn’t experience the world as we do. That lived experience is our unique contribution, and an authentic response is what our readers, supporters and staff expect and deserve. However, as AI becomes integrated into everyday computer software, phones and other devices, often without users realising, it is important that we engage with the technology in a deliberate, constructive way. This extends beyond the newsroom to explore potential opportunities to make our systems and ways of working more efficient. So what are we doing? Educating staff - While our staff can choose whether or not to use GenAI in their work providing it is in line with our published principles and editorial code, we want everyone at the Guardian to understand the technology, and know how to use it safely and responsibly. We’ve rolled out a mandatory training course for all our staff that goes beyond dos and don’ts - explaining how AI works and the science behind it - so our staff can make informed decisions. We’ll keep updating our training as the technology evolves. Creating in-house tools that incorporate Guardian values - We are intr…
Guardian posted today genai principles and even the gentle doubt here is completely off planet bonkers
"However ‘intelligent’ AI may appear, it doesn’t experience the world as we do"
WHAT
IT DOESN'T EXPERIENCE ANYTHING AT ALL
NEITHER DOES MICROSOFT EXCEL
FMD
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By locking up exclusive rights to the WBC, Netflix is testing whether Japan’s deeply entrenched viewing habits can be reshaped.
BREAKING via Reuters
U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation.
This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime
Just a small reminder (again) that all the Gulf states rely on migrant labour with few rights (or any if you’re, say, a construction worker or nanny.) The Cabin Crew don’t get asked if they were happy to fly they get told to.
You can tell how much Labor and the Coalition care about the poor Iranians by the way they hastily built a series of offshore concentration camps to imprison Iranian refugees *forever* when they tried to escape the regime.
The people that run our media have dedicated CBD carparks. PT is something you do for fun in Japan.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
go on you good thing, Sayer! #IRNvAUS
‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low
Do we really want a world where the strong can do as they please and the weak suffer as they must? I wrote for The Guardian today about why Australia shouldn’t stand for this, and why international law matters for a middle power like Australia #auspol #politas
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The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for a chartered plane to attend an event honouring the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s donation to a private agricultural college, parliamentary expenses data shows.
w/ Sarah Martin v @australia.theguardian.com
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Netflix has exclusive rights to the World Baseball Classic, which is new legal territory for izakaya and bars which show live sports broadcasts. www.bengo4.com/c_18/n_20074/
Nothing says social cohesion like segregating children based on wealth and religion from primary school.
Public ed is good for social cohesion. Public funding for religious private schools divides us.
It's extremely depressing how our system & pol leaders encourage a belief that sending your kids to private, esp "Christian" schools gives them a better future. We need pride & investment in public ed
AFC AFC-ing!
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
No kidding. It says so much about this person that she was happy to stand by and profit from the many many many many many many many other times Sandilands attacked other people, often women, and it was only when she personally became his target that she walked away. www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-a...
Cloud Carrier proposes gas-fired power station to power Moss Vale AI data centre. New data centres should be banned from requiring fossil fuels to operate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Never mind Australia not getting any submarines for our money, we’re not going to get any munitions to go in the submarines we’re not going to get
