US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly due to targeting mistake by US military planners * Minab school bombing: a visual guide A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed scores of children. According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners. Continue reading...

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Jason Okundaye has managed to articulate my feelings about this situation perfectly!

Pictures look great! Glad everything is going well :)) Lemme know if you need any recipes for your communal cooking.

452 voters? Fam???

‘The perfect place for people like me’: how one couple started UK’s first women’s sports bar Lucy and Pippa Tallant have opened the Crossbar, in Brighton, to create a place for women to feel comfortable watching all sport

‘The perfect place for people like me’: how one couple started UK’s first women’s sports bar

Toynbee continues to be the most delelu person in Britain, honestly.

Is everyone ready to moan about AOTY list again??? Let’s goooooo

‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe More than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit “We are more than a national team, we represent a story of pain but also hope,” Ihab Abu Jazar said, “and we are not alone.” At 8.26pm on Saturday the Palestine coach, whose father was killed in the Israel-Gaza war and whose siblings now live in tents in Khan Younis, emerged from the tunnel and took his place by the bench at San Mamés, Bilbao. Dressed in black, a keffiyeh over his shoulders, he watched 11 men in red, “a team of refugees playing for Palestinians all over the world”, and listened to 51,396 people applaud them, chanting for their freedom. “We don’t play just to win; we play to exist,” he had said in the days before Palestine played their first game in Europe, an occasion that turned out to be bigger than even he had imagined: “The most important day in my life”, a “historic” night that “all the words in the world can’t explain”. They didn’t win – they were a goal down within four minutes and lost 3-0 against the Basque national team – but they competed, and it wasn’t about that. In fact, when Zaid Qunbar looked like he might equalise after 12 minutes the whole of this vast stadium cheered him on, roaring the opposition striker running towards their goal. Continue reading...

‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe

Morning.

On Politics: The Online Right (and Left) Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 1h 15m

‘It's easy to say Reform are very inexperienced, they've got a lot of people in councils now, but they don't know what they're doing. But that's where the four years is in their favour.’

Alan Finlayson and James Butler on the online right, on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...