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The Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran: ‘We're going through a political crisis, but also a moral crisis’

Feb 6, 2026

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9 min read

The Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran: ‘We're going through a political crisis, but also a moral crisis’

The exiled author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, returns with a new book exploring how dissidents can find new communities. She talks about resilience, the comfort of trees and why the future is female. Interview by Hephzibah Anderson

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Jan 30, 2026

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13 min read

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

Carole Cadwalladr

Feb 6, 2026

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8 min read

Stewart Lee: Neil Young is right – let’s keep on rockin’ while it’s still a free world

The great musician has donated his entire back catalogue to Greenland in an act of solidarity – though there may not be many takers for the 80s rockabilly album

Feb 6, 2026

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6 min read

Review of the Week: My Father’s Shadow

British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr's acclaimed debut about an estranged father spending a busy day in Lagos with his sons, is a radiant and moving film about parents and children everywhere, writes Ellen E Jones

Feb 6, 2026

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8 min read

Trump promised an invasion. That’s all many Iranians have left to hope for

The US president told us help was on the way, and many Iranians believed him. Even now, with ‘talks’ under way, they look to the sky in hope, writes UK-based Iranian film-maker Elahe Esmaili

Feb 6, 2026

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4 min read

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

The wellness writer and fitness enthusiast shares a delicious vegan dish that always reminds him of his childhood

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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

Jan 27, 2026

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12 min read

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

Jan 20, 2026

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16 min read

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that European governments needs to wake up, fast

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

Jan 8, 2026

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9 min read

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

The crises over Venezuela and Greenland are not accidental – they are part of the White House’s stated vision for a new world order run by the ‘great powers’, writes analyst and former diplomat Arthur Snell

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

Sep 30, 2025

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17 min read

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space

CULTURE

Feb 3, 2026

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11 min read

'There has to be a way to actively oppose these thugs without losing ourselves': novelist George Saunders on life in America now

The Booker prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, whose new novel imagines the last hours of an oil tycoon, talks to Dorian Lynskey about Trump, truth and how to reconcile empathy with political opposition

Dorian Lynskey

Actor-director Cherien Dabis: "Cinema plays a huge role in shifting perspectives"

Jan 30, 2026

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8 min read

Actor-director Cherien Dabis: "Cinema plays a huge role in shifting perspectives"

The Palestinian-American’s work ranges from the hit TV comedy Only Murders in the Building to much more personal films. She talks to Guy Lodge about All That's Left of You, a shattering drama following three generations of a family torn apart by the 1948 Nakba

Guy Lodge

Feb 6, 2026

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5 min read

The Recommender: Eliza Clark

The British novelist, author of the acclaimed Boy Parts, shares her favourite recent cultural discoveries

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

Jan 30, 2026

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6 min read

Kai’s fish fingers and homemade mayonnaise

Chef Jess Murphy, from New Zealand by way of Ireland, shares the dish she invented for fun and is now the bestseller at her Galway restaurant

Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

Jan 23, 2026

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4 min read

Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

The Instagram cook and food creator, aka @recipeswith_jess, offers up one of her healthy, high-protein recipes

Jan 2, 2026

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5 min read

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

The chef and kimchi producer shares a vegan Korean dish that offers a colourful antidote to Christmas excess

Nov 7, 2025

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5 min read

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

A comforting, autumnal pie from Beth Adamson, the cook behind the popular social media account @BoroughChef

FEARLESS, INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM ON CULTURE, POLITICS AND TECH

WEEKEND EDITION

The Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran: ‘We're going through a political crisis, but also a moral crisis’

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Stewart Lee: Neil Young is right – let’s keep on rockin’ while it’s still a free world

Review of the Week: My Father’s Shadow

Trump promised an invasion. That’s all many Iranians have left to hope for

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

CULTURE

'There has to be a way to actively oppose these thugs without losing ourselves': novelist George Saunders on life in America now

Actor-director Cherien Dabis: "Cinema plays a huge role in shifting perspectives"

The Recommender: Eliza Clark

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

Kai’s fish fingers and homemade mayonnaise

Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

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