Nikki Marks

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“I am slightly fed up with my more known pictures, because they’re classically, iconically composed…
Every night, I remember the battle that that man was in. I didn’t get his damaged brain, but my brain has never been free of certain images.” Don McCullin in today’s Guardian.

Merit has little to do with why books go out of print and writers get forgotten. Every reader has the capacity to become a champion and help enrich the canon.
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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

The everyday Facebook groups where far-right ideas grow & disinformation spreads, unchecked
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Why everyone is lifting weights – and how to get started (whatever your size) Are reps or weights more important? Is it good if it hurts? How should I structure my workouts? Everything you need to know about resistance training, from the experts

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More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

‼️Russia is recruiting schoolchildren to make drones used against Ukrainian civilians under the guise of "education."

📽 Our investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHB... 👈

“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill Ukrainians Sixteen-year-old Vladislav builds UAVs that the Russian military uses for testing electronic warfare systems. Sasha, 13, teaches soldiers how to pilot drones and develops equipment for troops at the f...

❗ “We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill Ukrainians

The Insider's latest investigation by @dobrokhotov.bsky.social, @christogrozev.bsky.social, and Tatsiana Ashurkevich.

How Trump woke me up for surprise interview - and the key takeaways The US president signalled a new tone on Nato, voiced his respect for Keir Starmer - and showed his reflective side.

“I'll be frank with you - I was asleep when the White House rang… after a long few weeks on the road without a day off, I was exhausted & taking a nap.”
Gary O’Donoghue‬⁩ on his 20 minute phone call with Trump. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’ Channel 4 will air a documentary about the plight of medics in Gaza after the BBC last week announced that it would not show the film after concerns it may create “a perception of partiality that would not meet the high standards that the public rightly expect”. The BBC had commissioned Gaza: Doctors Under Attack more than a year ago from an independent production company called Basement Films but had delayed airing it until an ongoing review into a different programme on the region was completed. Continue reading...

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

Is Bromance dead? #PrivateEye 1651, out today

Putin won

Why Do Collaborators Do It? In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

Why do collaborators do it? In new novel ‘The Director’, Daniel Kehlmann explores “the idea that complicity is not a line that one jumps across, but rather an accumulation of rationalizations”. @galbeckerman.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

My Shipwreck Story On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.

Read this and your train ride home will zip by in a flash: “On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How to Disappear Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

Eye-opening article in @TheAtlantic.com on the extreme measures required to have privacy nowadays. “One thing that a lot of privacy advocates don’t really talk about: If you really want to be private, you have to get comfortable with lying.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump's policy An exclusive look inside the closely guarded factory the president wants to become a foundation stone for a US golden age.

“Many currents of the world economy, frontier technology and geopolitics flow through this one site”. BBC’s @faisalislam inside the Arizona factory that “will shape the future of the global economy and the world”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World Press Photo to suspend authorship attribution for possibly its most famous winning image of all time. Authorship of the 1973 @WorldPressPhoto overall winner, ‘Terror of War’, often known as ‘Napalm Girl’, has recently been called into doubt in the documentary The Stringer.

You need more DIY in your life

‘We’re in the Hamptons of England’: Trump sends wealthy Americans fleeing to the Cotswolds Upmarket bucolic area notes big rise in number of US citizens scoping a plan B away from the States

“Since the re-election of Trump there has been a big rise in Americans looking at the UK as a place to anchor themselves…40% year-on-year rise during the final three months of (2024).” Lauren Almeida in Guardian on the wealthy Americans fleeing to the Cotswolds www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

Just twelve hours to go till the Truth Tellers Summit begins ⌛️ #SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers
Live stream: sirharrysummit.org from 9.30am Wednesday 7th May
Agenda & speaker lineup tinyurl.com/322jwf8y @sirharrysummit

The countdown to the Truth Tellers Summit on May 7 begins — just seven days to go! ⏳

Our 2025 Agenda is now live, explore the full speaker lineup here: tinyurl.com/322jwf8y

🎥 Livestream on May 7th at sirharrysummit.org

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Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot Exclusive account reveals previously unreported details and insights into how Kremlin’s sabotage campaign played out on the ground – and the multinational effort to track down the network behind it

NEW: Our exclusive deep dive into a suspected Russian-led cell behind the parcel bomb plots with the first interviews with those directly involved, revealing how the sabotage campaign unfolded on the ground With @shaunwalker7.bsky.social
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41. Putin’s Minions: How Russia Spies (Ep 1) — The Rest Is Classified What do a fading seaside hotel, a self-proclaimed Q, and an eyelash champion have in common? They’re all part of a bizarre Russian spy ring operating in the UK. But beneath the absurdity lies a seriou...

Latest episode of @triclassified, ‘Putin’s Minions’, focuses on the Bulgarian spy ring recently convicted in the UK of spying for Russia, following plots that targeted journalist @christogrozev.bsky.social, a US military base in Germany & others. Ep 1:
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Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities (Gift Article) The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.

Defense Secretary Hegseth’s personal phone number, used in Yemen Signal chat, was openly available online and linked to apps like Airbnb, PayPal and a fantasy sports site, raising further concerns over what is usually a top national security asset. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Founder of fashion company Saint + Sofia missed her vocation as an audio engineer:

The #WPPh2025 Photo of the Year is ‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf, for @nytimes.com. The jury was moved by this portrait of a Palestinian boy which speaks to the devastating long-term costs of war on civilians. worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2025/Samar-Abu-Elouf/1

"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China." https://theatln.tc/ldjLYq88

Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89 Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru

Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas. “Datacentres’ locations are often industry secrets. But by using local news reports and industry sources Baxtel and Data Center Map, SourceMaterial compiled a map of 632 datacentres”
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