“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. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
Forgotten Jack Hilton book to be republished after bartender's discovery
The 1935 novel Caliban Shrieks was praised by Orwell and Auden before being forgotten for decades.
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John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 11mo agoTell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.
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
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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 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...
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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“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.
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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.
World Press Photo@worldpressphoto.bsky.social · last yr.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
“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
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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.
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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
Truth Tellers – Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit 2024
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Truth Tellers@sirharrysummit.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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
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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: overcast.fm/+ABL8LLXHlbo
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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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.
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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 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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
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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” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
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Should’ve worn sequins & ordered the bottomless mimosas
