‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day
Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Stop this savage being’: Iranians fear postponed Trump attack is merely disaster delayed
Some inside Iran believe threat was designed to divert attention from desire to seize islands in strait of Hormuz www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘We must preserve our traditions’: war casts shadow over Iranian Nowruz celebrations
Many Iranians were determined to mark the Persian new year despite the bombing entering its fourth week www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘We want change but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack
Tehran residents try to stay safe from bombing and cling to their livelihoods as war stretches into third week www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Bellingcat founder on verifying footage of deadly strike on girls' school in Iran
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Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Of course funding is an issue. But the guidance was issued 20 years ago. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for campaigners to expect more to have been done - at least by the better funded institutions. Of course, austerity will have impacted this work, particularly for local authority collections.
They don’t. It would be treated as a press enquiry unless there was an existing relationship. FOI requires a response within a set timeframe & helps to ensure responses are (largely) comparable.
How many curators emails are publicly available? Even if you do that as a journalist you’d be referred to the press office & then referred to the FOI team.
You might want to check for yourself how many institutions have publicly accessible comprehensive inventories of human remains in their collections. (Despite being told to compile these 20 years ago.)
NHM & Cambridge clearly have far larger collections given the number of individuals represented. Only 100 out of 241 UK institutions which hold human remains provided numbers for individuals represented in their collections. (Despite the DCMS guidance recommending they record this 20 years ago.)
It doesn’t have the largest collection. See the explainer piece: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
The graph was not meant to be published (& has been removed) as it only counted disclosed items of human remains, not individuals.
No, it says 241 institutions disclosed holding human remains. Only 100 provided exact or estimated numbers of how many individuals were represented in their collections. (Despite the 2003 guidance stating they should compile these numbers.)
It’s important to remember the countries & communities attempting to repatriate their ancestors’ human remains from UK museums. I spoke to descendants of the first Chimurenga heroes, whose skulls were long believed to have been taken to the UK after they were executed by British colonial force.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
There are more than 260,000 items of human remains held by UK museums, universities & councils, including thousands from former British colonies. Thanks to @profdanhicks.bsky.social & @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social for their expert analysis of my FoI data.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
The Iranian state silenced protests with brutality. What now for Iran’s opposition?
Grieving, bruised and divided on the wisdom of foreign-backed revolt, how can the Iranian people achieve change? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Khamenei regime will not be able to keep control of Iran, says dissenting film-maker
Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, says Iranian leaders want to destroy country www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests
Doctors in Tehran tell of overwhelmed medical staff as violent crackdown intensifies www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How Iran’s protest movement has gained increasing momentum – a visual guide
Demonstrations initially focused on economic issues but as they have grown and become political the regime has responded with deadly force www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran’s last link to the outside world
Despite internet blackout, a small number of Iranians are risking their lives to share messages as protests continue www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Dozens of artists call for end to Israel’s ‘systematic attacks’ on Gaza hospitals
Actors, doctors and human rights leaders sign letter calling for restoration of medical care to ‘collapsed’ system www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
Trump says he is considering ‘very strong’ military options against Iran as protester death toll climbs
US president claims ‘Iran wants to negotiate’ as rights groups report that regime’s crackdown on protest has killed hundreds www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Iran crisis: Trump claims leader ‘wants to negotiate’ amid protest crackdown as he mulls US military response – latest updates www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
