Send this story back in time 20 years as well.

Once again the PRC tortoise passes the USA hare because the PRC has a diagnostically relevant intrinsic vision for a sustainable future and the USA has no vision only a derived mission to maximise returns. Organisational structure is essential to success. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDB...

Ah yes, cutting funding to Muslim groups because of a social media post by the far-right Australian Jewish Association. The textbook definition of social cohesion

I hope people are realising that the greatest threats from the Iran war are the unforeseeable longer-term consequences. A chaotic post-regime Iran could well give rise to even more extreme forces, as occurred in Iraq. It's Epic Folly, even if it doesn't become Epic Fail.

What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

Imagine sending this post back in time to 2003.

It’s massively significant that many in the West have now openly walked away from in-principle support for an international rules-based order. We’re literally in a new and dangerous era now, and history suggests only a terrible and far-reaching calamity will get us out of it.

This guy is too funny man. The Labor government is only 1% away from falling into third place behind One Nation, but actually the poll is a disaster for the Coalition. And believe it or not, he’s actually closer to reality than most Labor folk who still can’t accept the Hanson is coming for them.

Finally another question I asked someone about an event mentioned in my book turned up some amazing material. Sadly, I can't capture the event as well as they put it, but it'll make an excellent scene in the streaming series adaptation!

Called some of the most iconic sporting moments in the time period of my book!

Deepest money pit? I didn't realise high-speed rail was part of AUKUS!

I once asked what 2003 would’ve been like if we had social media then, but I must say I’m underwhelmed now I know.

Could we get Trump to do this and just forego the actual war?

I’m looking forward to finishing editing, so I can be free to do other things with my life, but the problem with that is a main reason I’ve done this writing is because I can’t do anything else with my life.

I’ve deleted so many of the fun bits of 1998 that I had to change two chapter titles.

Iran will be Trump and Bibi’s Ukraine. A conflict that will tie them down and drain their resources.

So how did this war affect anybody else?

“If I go, I think it’ll really make me look strong, like I’m fully in charge of this whole operation,” said President Donald Trump

just realised: Australian teens could use this to get around the social media ban when it's up and running lmao

Had to delete the story about the talk on homophobic bullying in Year 10.

PSA- al-Jazeera has the best and most balanced coverage by a long shot, and they livestream on YouTube

Only a dying empire would do this.

We covered the reasons why Albanese is like this on our latest pod. It doesn’t require psychoanalysis imo. He has no moral/political centre, there is no serious left in Australia anymore and the media ecosystem is more right-wing than ever. All of that pulls an operative like him in one direction

Now Ferguson is just quoting Netanyahu to the Israeli ambassador, so Israel’s line is being delivered by the guest and the host. What a debasement of a once vitally important and constructive program.

The issue is there are two different axioms - the human rights one of "it is antisemitic to conflate Israel with Jews" and the Netanyahu one of "it is every Jew's and every ally's duty to defend the actions of the Israeli government". Holding both at once inevitably drives nonsensical conclusions

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Ok I think I can move on to trying to find a couple more people to review my draft. I'm happy that I don't need to wait for a couple of people who are in it to give feedback first.

An LLM will only regurgitate existing ideas! At best your LLM will just tell you what war-gaming nerds on the internet had discussed about an Israel-US war against Iran -- much of it now out of date.

Anthony Albanese used to despise John Howard. Now, with his support for the attack on Iran, he’s become a bad imitation of him, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/a...

Netanyahu and Israel's cabinet do not want regime change in Iran -- Israeli ministers have __explicitly__ said they want either a non-function nation riven by civil war or a shattered collection of warring states because they _explicitly_ said they saw Iran's existence as a threat.

She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work

Wow, that's endorsement you don't want on your resume.

Cut a further 3218 words from Part One in this round of edits. Finally hit my minimum goal of cutting at least 1/5 from the first draft, but only for that part.

I do wonder if the regime proves more fragile than expected, but even if/when it collapses, it seems highly unlikely to be replaced by anything better than utter chaos.

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.

I’m old enough to remember when the German SPD literally fought an election campaign on opposition to a potential US war with Iran. That was 2005. The Western centre-left has sunk so far since then.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

The genius level minds ABC management sought out to host its flagship global affairs podcast. What does this even mean? I don’t even think she knows

Editing update: I had to delete the story of the first time I tried to influence cricket team selections, and the story about the time I got advance notice of the Year 9 English exam questions. Losing all the fun stuff!

Every US intervention in the Middle East this century, overt or covert, has benefited Israel more than the US.

How does all of this affect the next Riyadh comedy festival?

'The weapon would be useless for Iran because using it would mean an instant counterattack' - Jacques Chirac, 2007 www.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...

I don't think a neat regime change into a friendlier face that remains a major Shiite Muslim military and economic power is actually what Israel or the Saudi-aligned states want? Chaos and collapse along the lines of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq would suit them just fine yeah?

Historically, these are TERRIBLE polling numbers for day 1 of a major US use of force, particularly against a well known and disliked adversary. Usually it only goes down from the start

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

Ordinary people will once again become fodder in an imperial war. It’s disgraceful that PM Albanese was among the first to back this aggression from Israel and the US rather than condemn it. Will they ever learn from history?

When I’ve finished editing my book, I’ll have more time to defend liberal values in the age of lawless authoritarianism, if it’s not too late.

We should all remember this war is being fought because Israel doesn’t want to negotiate peace, but rather wants to remove any regime getting in the way of their expansionism.

Yes literally ‘the media’ should be, including the outlet that published this. Ironically it’s by one of their business reporters! (No criticism of Gareth)