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Trump urges Iran to make deal ‘before it is too late’ after strike on key bridge near Tehran – Middle East crisis live

Argentina has expelled the Iranian embassy’s chargé d’affaires, ordering them to leave the country within 48 hours, after Tehran criticised Argentina’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organisation”. Argentina’s foreign ministry declared Mohsen Soltani Tehrani persona non grata and said Iran had made “false, offensive and unfounded accusations against the Argentine Republic and its highest authorities”. In a statement released by its embassy in Uruguay on Wednesday, Iran criticised Argentina’s decision to declare the IRGC a terrorist organisation as “illegal and unfounded” and warned the move would damage bilateral relations. Iran also said Argentine president Javier Milei, a Trump and Israel ally, and foreign minister Pablo Quirno were “siding with the aggressors” in a “clear violation” of international law. Argentina’s foreign ministry said Thursday it would “not tolerate insults or interference from a state that has systematically failed to comply with its international obligations and that persists in obstructing the progress of justice”.

‘You have to be serious’: Macron criticises Trump’s mixed messages about Nato and Iran

Emmanuel Macron has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s inconsistent and often contradictory pronouncements on the Iran war and Nato, saying if “you want to be serious” it was better not to come out with a something different every day. “There is too much talk … and it’s all over the place,” the French president said on Thursday during a state visit to South Korea. “We all need stability, calm, a return to peace – this isn’t a show!” Macron added: “You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.” Macron also mounted a strong defence of Nato, accusing Trump of undermining the transatlantic defence alliance through repeated remarks questioning the United States’s commitment to its continued membership. “I believe organisations and alliances like Nato are defined by what is left unsaid – that is, the trust that underpins them,” he said. “If you cast doubt on your commitment every day, you erode its very substance.” The comments follow mixed messages this week from the US president and others in Washington on the progress of the war, as well as criticism of European leaders for declining to back it and suggestions that the US may leave Nato. Trump has suggested variously that the war was as good as won and the US did not need the support of its allies; that he expected allies to join the US military operation; and that they should act alone and “go get their oil” in the strait of Hormuz. He also said this week at a private White House lunch that Nato had “treated us very badly” and “will be treating us badly again if we ever need them”. In comments to Reuters, he said he was “absolutely without question” considering leaving. He told the Daily Telegraph that a US exit was “beyond consideration”, calling the organisation a “paper tiger”, and has elsewhere criticised the defence alliance for its reluctance to support the month-old war, labelling its members “cowards”. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, this week also suggested the US would “re-examine” whether the alliance was still serving US interests, while Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, declined to confirm the US would defend Nato allies in the event of an attack. Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, is to visit Washington next week to try to repair relations, and other European leaders have defended the alliance, with the UK’s Keir Starmer calling it “the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen”. Two US senators, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Chris Coons, said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that the Senate would “continue to support the alliance for the peace and protection it provides” for the US, Europe and the world. While Trump did not mention Nato in an address to the nation on Wednesday night, the repeated remarks from Washington have further strained transatlantic relations already damaged by the US president’s attempted Greenland grab in February. Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said on Thursday that Trump’s repeated threats to withdraw from Nato, along with the prospect of a “massive” energy crisis in Europe and other factors, all looked like a “dream plan” for Russia’s president Vladimir Putin. EU diplomats said Trump’s increasingly frequent attacks on Nato were “nothing very new” and largely reflected “the difficulty of the situation he’s landed himself in”. One official said they would start to worry “when the paperwork actually goes in”. Congress passed legislation in 2023 that would prevent any president from pulling out of Nato without its approval. Nato’s mutual defence clause requires all members to respond to an attack on one, but does not imply support for a unilateral offensive. Many EU leaders are under political pressure over the war, which is deeply unpopular in Europe and has sparked a surge in energy prices and rising inflation since Iran effectively shut the strait of Hormuz, which carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil. Trump said on Wednesday he may end the war without a deal and told countries that rely on fuel shipments through the strait to “just grab it”. European and other states have said they will only help secure the strait if there is a ceasefire. With pressure growing, about 40 countries on Thursday explored ways to restore freedom of navigation to the waterway during online talks. The UK, which convened the talks, said they were focused on diplomatic and economic tools. France said the process would be multi-phased and could not begin until hostilities had calmed or ended. “It can only be done in consultation with Iran,” Macron said, adding that Paris considered a military operation to free the strait “unrealistic”. Macron, who said remarks by Trump poking fun at the French president’s marriage were “neither elegant nor up to standard” and did not “merit a response”, also said US and Israeli strikes would not resolve the issue of Tehran’s nuclear programme. “A targeted military action, even for a few weeks, will not allow us to resolve the nuclear issue in the long term,” he said. “If there is no framework for diplomatic and technical negotiations, the situation can deteriorate again in a few months.” Iran’s armed forces responded to Trump on Thursday with a warning for the US and Israel of “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks. The war will continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, the spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, in a statement carried by Iranian media. Trump said in his address on Wednesday that the US was “very close” to achieving its objectives but attacks would intensify and Iran would be brought “back to the stone ages, where they belong” unless Tehran agreed a negotiated settlement. “Messages have been received through intermediaries, including Pakistan, but there is no direct negotiation with the US,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency on Thursday.

Jewish diaspora leaders urge Israeli president to stop West Bank settler violence

The former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind is among leading members of the Jewish diaspora urging the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, to intervene to stop “attacks by Jewish extremists” on Palestinians in the West Bank. An open letter to Herzog facilitated by the London Initiative – a liberal Zionist network of 360 people, including eminent Jewish, Israeli and Israeli Palestinian figures – has attracted more than 3,000 signatories, including diplomats, philanthropists, rabbis and academics from Australia, Canada, across Europe, South Africa the UK and US. It follows a spate of killings and arson attacks by settlers on Palestinian civilians in March. The letter said: “Israel’s security forces are clearly better able to protect Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, living under different levels of Israeli military and civil control, from Jewish terror. That they do not act decisively suggests a lack of directives from the government.” The letter, timed for the Jewish festival of Passover, added: “Mr President, the terror, death and destruction inflicted by Jewish-Israeli extremists against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank is an abomination. “It is not only morally shameful but a strategic threat to the future of Israel. It damages world Jewry and the relationship of future generations with Israel. Sadly, based on events and on the statements of the most extreme coalition partners it can be concluded that the violence now engulfing the West Bank is not only condoned by the government but is in fact policy.” UK signatories to the letter include Matthew Gould, the former UK Ambassador to Israel; Lord Michael Levy, former Middle East envoy and a close ally of former prime minister Tony Blair; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major; the Tory peer and Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein; the philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield; and Sir Mick Davis, a former Conservative party treasurer who co-founded the London Initiative. Prominent signatories outside the UK include the billionaire Canadian philanthropist Charles Bronfman; the Israeli diplomat Ilan Sztulman Starosta; Michael M Adler, a former US ambassador to Belgium; and the former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen. Herzog’s office posted his response on X. Referring to what he called the “recent surge of violence by extremist elements in Judea and Samaria” and “grave offences against innocent people”, he added: “I share your conviction that these acts of violence stand in stark contradiction to the values upon which Israel was founded and to the enduring ethical tradition of the Jewish people.” Herzog said he had demanded the authorities “employ all available means to bring those responsible to justice and put an immediate end to this unacceptable phenomenon”. He added that “violence and vigilantism” were not only “shameful crimes against innocents” but that these actions interfered “with the unceasing efforts … to contend with clear and present Palestinian terror threats”. He went on to say that “at a time when Israel is in the throes of a bitter war against enemies that seek its destruction, and the Jewish people is contending with a fierce and rising tide of antisemitism around the world, this kind of violence against innocents further plays directly into the hands of Israel’s detractors, fuelling hatred that weakens us as a nation and jeopardises Jews everywhere.” The letter follows one sent to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in August 2025. Facilitated by the London Initiative and signed by 6,300 Jews worldwide, it called on him to “permanently restore the provision of food and humanitarian aid to the Gazan population” and end the war in Gaza, “enforce the law in the West Bank”. It also said members of his government had “used language of racism, hatred and incitement without censure”, urging him to commit that “neither you nor any member of your government will again advocate policies of starvation or expulsion as weapons of war”. The latest letter says that since then the situation regarding “attacks by settlers and their supporters” has “only deteriorated, reaching a new nadir during the war with Iran”.

Coalition of countries discuss ‘every possible measure’ to pressure Iran into reopening strait of Hormuz

More than 40 countries gathered to discuss “every possible diplomatic, economic and coordinated measure” to pressure Iran into reopening the strait of Hormuz, the UK foreign secretary said on Thursday. After chairing a virtual summit, Yvette Cooper said coordinated action was needed as Iran’s “reckless strikes” on international shipping and efforts to “hijack the global economy” were hitting nations from across the globe “who played no part in this conflict”. “That’s affecting petrol prices and mortgage rates here in the UK, but also jet fuel across the world, fertiliser to Africa, and also gas to Asia,” she said. “So countries across the world being impacted, and that’s why we’re so determined to see every possible diplomatic, economic and coordinated measure to get the strait reopened.” Whitehall sources said there were discussions at the summit about getting more countries from the south of the globe to put economic pressure on Iran to make sure it does not profit from closing the strait. They said the scale of condemnation of Iran’s actions from countries that have previously been unwilling to resort to sanctions was striking. One option being examined by the UN is whether a humanitarian shipping corridor can be opened to make sure fertiliser gets through to prevent food shortages in poorer countries. As well as this week’s meeting, there will be a further military discussion next week on whether it may be possible to clear sea mines and rescue trapped ships in the strait of Hormuz. The meeting will be convened by Britain’s Permanent Joint Headquarters, where all its overseas military operations are planned, based in Northwood, north-west London, but some international leaders are expected to join virtually. The discussions took place without the US, which began the war on Iran. At the summit, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and some Gulf nations were exploring what could be done to restore access to the maritime route. The US president, Donald Trump, has suggested countries that rely on the strait should “build up some delayed courage” and “just grab it”. However, Keir Starmer has said unblocking the lane, which carries 10-25% of the world’s oil and gas supplies, would “not be easy”. Highlighting the importance of the strait, Cooper pointed to World Bank predictions that a continued blockage could push 9 million people worldwide into food insecurity “alongside the unsustainable increases that we have seen in oil prices and food prices hitting households and businesses in every corner of the world”. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said on Thursday that Trump must not abandon “a mess that he’s made” in the Middle East by leaving other countries to reopen the strait. Speaking during a visit to north-east England, she said: “If I was speaking to him, I’d be saying: ‘If you break it, you own it.’ That’s what Colin Powell, a former secretary of state in the US, had said. ‘If you break it, you own it.’ “He started this war. We said that if he needed support against Iran … use our airbases. That’s one of the things that Britain has done. He should now not be abandoning a mess that he’s made, if he thinks that it is a mess.” Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, told a press conference he was not “angry” with his ally, Trump, for entering the war, but said it was “difficult listening to the press conferences sometimes” to work out what the president’s motivation was. The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, meanwhile, urged Starmer to “step up” plans to reopen the oil and gas shipping route throttled by Iran, adding: “The prime minister needs to show an alternative.”

TikTok pulls Israeli ultranationalist’s account for breach of hate speech rules

TikTok has removed an account belonging to an ultranationalist, pro-settlement Israeli influencer for breaching hate speech and bullying rules after the Guardian flagged videos showing him harassing activists in the occupied West Bank. The Guardian has reviewed dozens of videos posted by various social media figures that have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram documenting the harassment of Palestinians as well as physical attacks on Israeli and international activists. The accounts began to proliferate after the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, since when Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. In recent weeks violence has intensified further, with repeated attacks on homes. The burgeoning far-right ecosphere has risen in tandem with the growing influence of far-right parties and figures in Israeli politics. “Dehumanising Palestinians is now mainstream in Israel,” said Yuli Novak, the executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. “Influencers gain popularity through incendiary messaging.” Prof Anat Ben-David, a digital media researcher at the Open University of Israel, said: “The circulation of videos showing settlers harassing Palestinians in the West Bank, alongside rightwing activists targeting journalists, points to a troubling convergence between platform dynamics and on-the-ground violence.” TikTok said this week it had removed an account belonging to the far-right social media personality Roi Star after it was flagged by the Guardian. In a video he posted to TikTok and Instagram in January, he films himself entering a house being used as a base by leftwing activists in Ras Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan valley, and pepper-spraying an activist who tries to prevent him for gaining access. The activists also filmed the encounter. “This is Judea, not fucking Palestine,” Star yells in a clip posted by one such activist, Andrey Khrzhanovskiy. In Khrzhanovskiy’s video, Star is heard threatening activists and their families with continued harassment. “I know your number. I know your family. I know where everyone lives,” he says at one point. Reached by the Guardian, Star said he had gone to “talk about peace” with the leftwing activists and claimed Ras Ein al-Auja was not Palestinian land but an open Israeli public space. He said he used pepper spray as it was “the most minimal thing you can do to defend yourself”. Asked about the threats he made, he said: “It’s all acting… It was just the moment got heated up … My intentions were not to get that extreme.” He added: “It is my right as a citizen of Israel to walk around public areas … It [the West Bank] belongs to Israel. And if Arabs want to live there, they should be good Israeli citizens.” TikoTok said it had taken down Star’s account for breaching the platform’s rules on hate speech and bullying. The platform said that under its community guidelines, it does not allow “the presence of violent and hateful individuals on our platform, including violent extremists, and do[es] not allow praise, glorification of extremists.” TikTok said it had also removed videos from “other TikTok creators linked to Israeli far-right agitators”, without identifying either the content or the creators. Khrzhanovskiy said: “This is not the first ethnic cleansing in history, but this is the first ethnic cleansing that you can watch live on TikTok. There is a certain irony in me denouncing this. Settlers film us, we film them – a parallel battle unfolding both on the ground and online.” Barak Cohen, an Israeli activist, said: “These far-right influencers have crossed a serious line. Violence against Palestinians feeds mob dynamics. The demand is for violence.” Influencers’ use of social media to promote ultranationalist agendas is mirrored by Israel’s far-right politicians. In August last year the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, drew condemnation after he posted footage to X in which he was seen taunting the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in jail. Another member of the Knesset, Zvi Sukkot, of the far-right Religious Zionist party, was filmed in the occupied West Bank denying settler violence. Sukkot said he was “proud to be part of the Jewish settlement enterprise in the land of Israel, which belongs to the Jewish people according to the Bible”. He dismissed accusations that he had denied settler violence, saying he had “led the fight against polluting environmental terrorism that endangers the health of the settlers”. Mohammad Hureini, a human rights activist who lives in Masafer Yatta, where settlers attack daily, said the videos posted by far-right agitators had a profound psychological and social impact. “When people see this content, it heightens fear,” he said. Instagram continues to host numerous accounts linked to far-right Israeli agitators. Meta, which owns Instagram, has not replied to a request for comment. Ben-David said: “While platform policies remain deliberately ambiguous on hate speech, they are explicit in prohibiting actions that threaten harm to individuals. Yet such content is routinely amplified without meaningful intervention.”

How have Trump’s Iran war aims changed and has he achieved any of them?

In his address to the nation on Wednesday evening Donald Trump said the US would “very shortly” achieve its strategic objectives in Iran – partly because the White House has constantly adjusted its goals since the start of the war on 28 February. Eliminate Iran’s missile and drone threat In an eight-minute video released on 28 February, Trump promised that the US would “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground”. Before the war Iran was estimated to have about 2,500 high-speed ballistic missiles and destroying the programme was a key goal for Israel too. Iran’s missile launch rates have been reduced by about 90% and its long-term manufacturing capacity has been significantly degraded. However, Tehran has retained a continued, if modest, capacity to strike Israel and the Gulf, causing fear, damage and small numbers of casualties. There have been seven to 19 waves of attacks a day on Israel by Iran since the fourth day of the war, according to the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies. The most heavily targeted Gulf state, the United Arab Emirates, said on Thursday its air defences had engaged 26 drones and 19 missiles from Iran. However, sources told Reuters last week that the US could only determine with certainty that it had destroyed about a third of Iran’s missile arsenal. On Wednesday Trump said the US was “hurting their … missile programme at levels never seen before” and that Iran’s missiles and drone launches had been “dramatically curtailed” – a notable softening of his opening position. Prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon At the beginning of the war, Trump said “we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon”. At the time Iran held a stock of 440kg of 60% enriched uranium, enough to make 10 bombs if it could be upgraded to the necessary 90%. However, western intelligence agencies and independent experts did not believe Iran had the capability to build a single bomb, particularly after last June’s bombing of the country’s nuclear sites by Israel and the US during the 12-day war. A range of Iranian nuclear sites have been further targeted over the past five weeks, making bomb building inconceivable, but the nuclear material remains, probably at a site in Isfahan. On Wednesday Trump declared he “didn’t care” about this because it was “so far underground” at a location monitored by satellite. Destroy Iran’s navy and air force, and end threats to shipping Trump promised to “annihilate their navy” at the start of the war and last week Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, added destroying Iran’s air force to the list of US objectives. They are goals that have been broadly achieved. Trump said on Wednesday that Iran’s navy and air force had both been eliminated. At the end of March, the White House claimed that 150 Iranian vessels had been destroyed. US claims about Iran’s air force are less clear, but it has not been militarily effective and the US and Israel have enjoyed air superiority since day one. However, this may not be as significant as claimed because asymmetric threats are very hard to reduce to zero. Iran has been able to close the strait of Hormuz through periodic drone attacks and it is thought to retain the ability to mine the waterway. On Wednesday Trump said it was up to other countries to “take the lead” in reopening the strait, as he tried to walk away from a problem he had created. In response, the price of Brent crude oil rose by 8%. Demilitarise pro-Iran proxies The initial Trump promise was “to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilise the region or the world and attack our forces” – a wide commitment encompassing Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and groups in Iraq. Conflicts involving all are ongoing. Israel has begun an invasion of southern Lebanon aimed at clearing out Hezbollah and Shia Muslims below the Litani River, though rocket fire into Israel from the north continues. The Houthis have conducted three missile attacks into Israel and have threatened to close the Red Sea. Drone attacks on western bases in Erbil, northern Iraq, have continued nightly. On Thursday the US embassy in Iraq warned there could be attacks by local militias in Baghdad and urged Americans to leave the country for their own safety. Trump, meanwhile, appears to have modified his objective. His aim, he said on Wednesday, was simply to prevent Iran from helping its regional allies – in his words, to “crush their ability to support terrorist proxies”. Regime change This was at first a Trump goal, with the president telling “the great proud people of Iran” on 28 February that “the hour of your freedom is at hand” – though he advised would-be protesters to wait for the US-Israeli bombing to stop, which it has not. There has been no sign of any popular uprising following the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the war, not least because previous protests were brutally suppressed in January. The subsequent installation of Khamenei’s son Mojtaba demonstrated that the existing Iranian regime had endured, despite lingering questions over his wellbeing. Trump and his allies had already backed away from the goal, though on Wednesday the president repeated an argument that “regime change has occurred” because of Ali Khamenei’s death – though it has made little difference for now. A more nuanced question is whether the younger Khamenei and his backers in the Revolutionary Guards can endure in the medium to long term. If the US-Israeli bombing were to stop tomorrow, Iran would be isolated and weakened, similar, arguably, to the Assad regime after surviving the early phase of the Syrian civil war.

Award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer arrested in Tehran, says her daughter

The prize-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been arrested in Tehran, according to her family, as activists accused the regime of cracking down on civil society under cover of the war with Israel and the US. Sotoudeh’s daughter Mehraveh Khandan said her mother was taken from her home in Tehran late on Wednesday and that her whereabouts were unknown. Khandan suspected the arrest may be related to recent interviews about the war, in which Sotoudeh criticised the government. “We do not know which agency carried out the arrest or who was responsible. She was alone at home at the time, and my family only became aware of it today,” Khandan said. “As far as we know, in recent days she had not been summoned for interrogation or threatened by security authorities. Her phone, the laptops and all electronic devices had been taken. Everything else in the house remained in place,” said Khandan, 25, who is studying overseas. The country is under a communications blackout, with internet shutdowns and restrictions on international calls. Activists have already expressed fears that a rise in executions is taking place in Iran, which is being overshadowed by the war. At least 145 people are confirmed to have been killed in 2026 so far, with an additional 400-plus executions reported but not verified, according to Iran Human Rights. Sotoudeh has represented many political prisoners, including opposition activists and women prosecuted for removing their mandatory headscarf, and has won awards including the 2012 Sakharov prize of the European parliament and the 2020 Right Livelihood award. She has been arrested and imprisoned repeatedly for her work over the past two decades, but was released in 2021 on medical grounds. Khandan said she was worried about her mother’s health in case she was imprisoned again. “After my mother went on hunger strike in prison; doctors discovered that she has a heart condition that worsens under severe stress, causing shortness of breath and sometimes chest pain. Doctors had said she should not be exposed to psychological pressure, and it was on this basis that she had been granted medical leave, as her condition deteriorated in prison,” she said. Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has also been held in prison since December 2024, after first being arrested in 2019 for producing and distributing badges bearing the slogan “I oppose compulsory hijab [mandatory dress code for women]”. Agence France-Press contributed to this report

Europe should lift sanctions on Russian energy amid Iran crisis, Viktor Orbán says as he taunts Tusk – as it happened

… and on that note, it’s a wrap for today! The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, urged Europe to “immediately” lift sanctions on Russian energy to shield its economy from “one of the most severe economic crises in its history” coming as a consequence of the Iran war (15:12). Earlier today, Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, warned that Donald Trump’s repeated threats of breaking up Nato, the prospect of a “massive” energy crisis in Europe, and Viktor Orbán’s moves to block aid and money for Ukraine all look like “Putin’s dream plan” (10:47). In response, Orbán taunted Tusk telling him to “think not about Putin, but about our own country and peoples”. His comments come just 10 days before a key parliamentary election in Hungary, amid growing scrutiny of his pro-Russian policy positions after he faced robust criticism from other EU leaders. Meanwhile, Ukraine started a 24/7 “online radio” broadcasting rebuttals to Orbán’s comments, urging Hungarians to “not trust the toxic anti-Ukrainian propaganda coming from officials on a daily basis.” (16:33). Separately, The French president, Emmanuel Macron, dismissed Donald Trump’s mocking comments about his marriage saying they were “neither elegant nor appropriate” and “they do not warrant a response” (12:14). During a private event last night, Trump ridiculed France’s Emmanuel Macron for a 2025 incident in which he appeared to be getting shoved by his wife, Brigitte, mocking him for “still recovering from the right to the jaw” (10:17). Trump also criticised “very bad” allies in Nato, saying the alliance was a “paper tiger,” with Macron condemning his comments for undermining the partnership (12:36). Trump’s comments also drew widespread criticism in France, including from Macron’s political critics (11:28). If you have any tips, comments or suggestions, email me at jakub.krupa@theguardian.com. I am also on Bluesky at @jakubkrupa.bsky.social and on X at @jakubkrupa.