The Iran war passed the two-month mark last weekend and looks increasingly like a stalemate. This week the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, denied the US was actually still at war, saying hostilities had ended when a ceasefire deal was struck on April 8. Since then, he said, the US had been engaged in Project Freedom, a humanitarian mission to help vessels trapped in the Strait of Hormuz to transit the waterway. The same day, the US president, Donald Trump, said he was calling Project Freedom off, but that a deal was very close.

This level of confusion has dogged the war since it started. The war aims have changed seemingly by the week, there has been no coherent strategy and the undoubted military might of the US and Israel has failed to achieve what the two countries set out to do. Christian Emery, an expert in US-Iran relations offers us this report card in how Operation Epic Fury has gone so far.

In 2023, the headteacher of a primary school in Berkshire tragically took her own life after an Ofsted inspection. Teachers told a subsequent parliamentary inquiry into Ofsted about the toll that school inspections have had on their own lives. Today, researchers who reviewed their submissions issue a stark warning about what they found.

Staff in hospital accident and emergency departments are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) which is showing great promise as a diagnostic tool. But these AI tools need to be properly tested before they can be fully trusted, writes our expert.

And as results flow in from elections in England, Scotland and Wales, we’ll bring you expert analysis throughout the day.

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