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Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

Feb 17, 2026

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Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

The majority of the money behind Nigel Farage’s movement was being supplied by Conservative interests even before the defection of so many high-profile figures from the party – to the alarm of former Reform faithfuls, writes Charlie Young

Charlie Young

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Feb 13, 2026

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14 min read

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

Virginia Heffernan

Feb 17, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week – from a captivating Brazilian thriller to Charli xcx's 'goth spring' – as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Feb 13, 2026

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7 min read

Stewart Lee: The rats are taking over Westminster - and there’s a rodent problem too

In Britain and around the world, the vermin seem to be becoming more visible. But then they recognise a sinking ship when they see one

Feb 13, 2026

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8 min read

Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless

The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

The food writer and Ottolenghi collaborator shares a hearty and flavourful saloonat dajaj from her Gulf homeland

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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

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

Jan 27, 2026

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13 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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‘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

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

Sep 30, 2025

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‘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

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A 16 year old girl was hounded until the day she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

A 16 year old girl was hounded until the day she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

The suicide of 16-year-old Princess Dickson came after incessant targeting on the anonymous influencer gossip forum. The commenters – mainly professional women – should be ashamed, writes Dr Jessica Taylor

‘I wanted an Iraqi film where soldiers are not the heroes’: director Hasan Hadi on his captivating debut The President's Cake

Feb 10, 2026

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‘I wanted an Iraqi film where soldiers are not the heroes’: director Hasan Hadi on his captivating debut The President's Cake

Growing up under Saddam Hussein’s rule, the director’s dream of a movie career seemed a world away. Now, as his acclaimed film about a schoolgirl tasked with baking a cake for the dictator is released, he talks to British-Iraqi journalist Arwa Haider

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Olia Hercules

The British-based Ukrainian chef and author reveals what’s on her current cultural menu

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

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

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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Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

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

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Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

The Nerve Hotlist

Stewart Lee: The rats are taking over Westminster - and there’s a rodent problem too

Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

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

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’

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

CULTURE

A 16 year old girl was hounded until the day she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

‘I wanted an Iraqi film where soldiers are not the heroes’: director Hasan Hadi on his captivating debut The President's Cake

The Recommender: Olia Hercules

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

Kai’s fish fingers and homemade mayonnaise

Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

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