Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025“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. 121
Reposted by Nikki MarksNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 14/10/2025Merit 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...bbc.comForgotten Jack Hilton book to be republished after bartender's discoveryThe 1935 novel Caliban Shrieks was praised by Orwell and Auden before being forgotten for decades. 17618
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 28/09/2025The everyday Facebook groups where far-right ideas grow & disinformation spreads, unchecked www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comInside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas growThe 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 130
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comWhy 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 030
Reposted by Nikki Markschristogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025More 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 716045
Reposted by Nikki MarksThe Insider @theins.press · 22/07/2025‼️Russia is recruiting schoolchildren to make drones used against Ukrainian civilians under the guise of "education." 📽 Our investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHB... 👈 34716
Reposted by Nikki MarksThe Insider @theins.press · 22/07/2025❗ “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.theins.press“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill UkrainiansSixteen-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... 68147
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025“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...bbc.comHow Trump woke me up for surprise interview - and the key takeawaysThe US president signalled a new tone on Nato, voiced his respect for Keir Starmer - and showed his reflective side. 120
Reposted by Nikki MarksThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/06/2025Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attacktheguardian.comChannel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under AttackBBC 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... 18528169
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Why 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...theatlantic.comWhy Do Collaborators Do It?In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis. 010
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Read 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...theatlantic.comMy Shipwreck StoryOn my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. 000
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Eye-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...theatlantic.comHow to DisappearInside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find 022
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025“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...bbc.co.ukThe US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump's policyAn exclusive look inside the closely guarded factory the president wants to become a foundation stone for a US golden age. 000
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025World 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. 011
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 11/05/2025“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...theguardian.com‘We’re in the Hamptons of England’: Trump sends wealthy Americans fleeing to the CotswoldsUpmarket bucolic area notes big rise in number of US citizens scoping a plan B away from the States 010
Reposted by Nikki Markschristogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social · 10/05/2025NBC 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)nbcnews.comTrump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in UkraineUsing 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. 1392083947
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Just 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 @sirharrysummitsirharrysummit.orgTruth Tellers – Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit 2024 010
Reposted by Nikki MarksTruth Tellers @sirharrysummit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The 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 021
Reposted by Nikki MarksPjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025NEW: 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...theguardian.comExplosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plotExclusive 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 719561
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Latest 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: overcast.fm/+ABL8LLXHlboovercast.fm41. Putin’s Minions: How Russia Spies (Ep 1) — The Rest Is ClassifiedWhat 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... 010
Reposted by Nikki MarksChristiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Defense 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...nytimes.comHegseth’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. 37830
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Founder of fashion company Saint + Sofia missed her vocation as an audio engineer: 010
Reposted by Nikki MarksWorld Press Photo @worldpressphoto.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The #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 8178113
Reposted by Nikki MarksThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/04/2025"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." theatln.tc/ldjLYq88 1629895
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...theguardian.comMario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru 010
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Big 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” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRevealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areasAmazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents 000
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Should’ve worn sequins & ordered the bottomless mimosas 010
Reposted by Nikki MarksTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant 167110282252
Reposted by Nikki MarksChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Christo Grozev: the Russian spycatcher Putin wants dead youtu.be/6dqBmgXo2Uk 1168
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This brilliant, unputdownable book about Oleg Gordievsky was described by John Le Carré as “The best true spy story I have ever read”. 000
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Two convicted in murder-for-hire plot of US-Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad."I have cried, I have laughed, I have even danced...today is not just about my survival; it is about the defeat & humiliation of a regime that believes it can silence its critics with bullets” www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comMasih Alinejad: Two convicted in murder-for-hire plot of US-Iranian journalistThe alleged Russian mobsters are found guilty of a plot that US officials said was funded by the Iranian government. 010
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Extremely alarming report about the rising prevalence of CWD, an always-fatal wasting disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose etc), and growing fears amongst scientists of the possibility of spillover into humans as more people consume game meat. Good time to give up venison. 000
Reposted by Nikki MarksSteve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Judging by today’s Russian papers, Moscow’s rather pleased with Donald Trump. One paper: “Trump is ready to make significant concessions to Russia.” Another: “Events are developing in the right direction: right & beneficial for Russia.” #ReadingRussiayoutu.beReading Russia - 20 March 2025YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg 23320156
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025@philipobaji.bsky.social Komla Dumor Award applications close tonight, Thurs 20th March at 11.59 GMT. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...bbc.comBBC News launches the 2025 Komla Dumor award in search for journalistic talent in AfricaNow in its tenth year, the award honours the legacy of Komla Dumor, the distinguished Ghanaian broadcaster and former BBC World News presenter 000
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025“Stanislav Aseyev's memoir, which is prison literature of the highest order, is The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. Some of his journalism from Russian-occupied Ukraine, for which he was arrested and tortured, is collected in his book In Isolation.” Timothy Snyder 022
Reposted by Nikki MarksStanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 19/03/2025After my post about Radio Liberty, Professor Snyder asked me to expand on the idea in a short article. Here it is (translated by Amelia Mukamel Glaser): snyder.substack.com/p/225?fbclid...snyder.substack.com2+2=5"America destroys one of its own symbols," by Stanislav Aseyev 6410112
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The Battle for the Bros: “Young men have gone maga. Can the left win them back?” Long read on the role of streamer ‘bro’s’ in the lives of millions of alienated young American men. “When it comes to parasocial media, maga has had a long head start.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe Battle for the BrosYoung men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back? 000
Reposted by Nikki MarksMarc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Our DNI retweets this…incredible. 1728859
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025“The value of shares in Eutelsat, the French owner of London-based Starlink rival OneWeb, have shot up 500% since Trump’s Oval Office row with Zelenskyy. Eutelsat’s chief exec says it could replace Starlink in a couple of months in places like Ukraine.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.com‘Deeply uncomfortable’: UK Starlink users switch off over Musk’s political machinationsNumbers using satellite broadband system has been growing but users are having second thoughts due to Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration 000
Reposted by Nikki MarksThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/03/2025Trump’s moves to curb independent media look familiar to the Hungarian journalist András Pethő: “The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán's lessons well.” theatln.tc/VlZjD1iBtheatln.tcTrump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look FamiliarMuch of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook. 15406178
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“The losers…are licence fee payers who have seen hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on BBC presenters who were off work on full pay for at least a year, on top of whatever the costs of this settlement… The pressure is on to justify the financial waste.” www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comBBC: Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone and Kasia Madera settle sex and age discrimination disputeThe quartet claimed they lost their roles on the BBC News Channel following a "rigged" recruitment. 000
Reposted by Nikki MarksQuentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Watch: From Mexico's drug cartels to US streets - the deadly Fentanyl trade killing thousands youtu.be/efQrvq_ZQxkyoutu.beFrom Mexico's drug cartels to US streets - the deadly Fentanyl trade killing thousands | BBC NewsYouTube video by BBC News 0102
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I realised a bit late that I could have my Private Eye delivered to me in Washington. I’m an issue behind but it’s a very welcome sight in my postbox. 010
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Saw this gripping film by @jamesjonesfilm late last year & highly recommend it. It is dramatic, harrowing & moving, revealing the high personal price a principled & uncompromising journalist @christogrozev has paid for being - in the eyes of very bad people - too good at his job. 011
Reposted by Nikki MarksJames Jones @jamesjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Following the convictions of the spies at the Old Bailey in London we can now release the film. What’s it like to discover a plot by the Russian state to surveil, kidnap or even kill you? @christogrozev.bsky.social @eliothiggins.bsky.social dochouse.org/event/antido...dochouse.orgAntidote - Bertha DocHouseAntidote follows whistleblowers, journalists and activists working secretly to expose Russia's poison and assassination operations. 013
Reposted by Nikki MarksShaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I spoke with @christogrozev.bsky.social about his feelings on being trailed by the Bulgarian spy ring jailed in London last week for spying for Russia, and the effect it has had on his life: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.com‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ringInvestigative journalist called ‘modern-day Sherlock’ by Alexei Navalny on unsettling photos, reprisals and being exiled from Vienna 03510
Nikki Marks @nikkijmarks.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Perfect day for a wander around the oasis that is the Smithsonian’s National Zoo 020