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Nikki Marks
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TV Director, BBC News
“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.
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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.
www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The everyday Facebook groups where far-right ideas grow & disinformation spreads, unchecked
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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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
September 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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‼️Russia is recruiting schoolchildren to make drones used against Ukrainian civilians under the guise of "education."

📽 Our investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHB... 👈
July 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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❗ “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.
“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...
theins.press
July 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“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...
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.
www.bbc.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Is Bromance dead? #PrivateEye 1651, out today
June 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Putin won
June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.
www.theatlantic.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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...
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.
www.theatlantic.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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...
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
www.theatlantic.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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.
The World Press Photo of the Year in 1973 was awarded to Associated Press photographer Nick Út for the photograph ‘The Terror of War’. This attribution has now come under serious question. Read more: worldpressphoto.org/news/2025/authorship-attribution-suspended-for-the-terror-of-war
May 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“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...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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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)
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.
www.nbcnews.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
May 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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

@reuters.com @durham-university.bsky.social @tinabrownlm.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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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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...
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April 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Founder of fashion company Saint + Sofia missed her vocation as an audio engineer:
April 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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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
April 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM