The Guardian says:

The fate of the two-week ceasefire in the Iran conflict looked in peril on Wednesday as both sides gave divergent versions of what had been agreed, Israel intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon and Iran halted the passage of oil tankers because of an alleged Israeli ceasefire breach.

So if the Guardian editor asked for a summing up of the situation, just to save space, it ought to be “There is no ceasefire. Zilch! It’s over.”

That would also be more truthful. The UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, talks of “pressure on a fragile peace” after calling Israel’s attack on Lebanon “carnage”! How fragile can you get? Peace is war — or war is peace — where have I heard that before? In truth (and let’s hang on desperately to that idea before it becomes “truth is falsehood” or “falsehood is truth”), in truth, I say, there never was a ceasefire, either here or in Gaza. The war will go on in both cases until Trump is triumphant. That’s what the MAGA doubters want. They don’t want “forever wars”, they want a quick undeniable victory that will Make  America Great Again. And Trump’s willingness to destroy “a whole civilisation” promises that “like never before”. Will he deliver it? Let’s hope not.