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Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’

Mar 27, 2026

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15 min read

Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’

Raoul Peck, director of a new film about the author, tells Dorian Lynskey that the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four was drawn from lived experience, not prophecy

Dorian Lynskey
Dorian Lynskey
The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of new homes

Mar 27, 2026

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11 min read

The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of new homes

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Mar 25, 2026

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10 min read

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto... Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop

Mar 27, 2026

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9 min read

Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto... Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop

What will Reform’s leader and party do for money now that their dubious income streams are being shut down?

Review of the Week: Sexistential by Robyn

Mar 27, 2026

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6 min read

Review of the Week: Sexistential by Robyn

Babies, boobs and pop bangers! The Swedish star is back with a euphoric new album embracing the joy of motherhood and messy, middle-aged desire, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

What will AI's impact be on public-interest media? Ask an AI

Mar 26, 2026

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4 min read

What will AI's impact be on public-interest media? Ask an AI

As an ex-Google executive takes the helm of the BBC, film-maker Beadie Finzi asks Claude about what the media will look like in 2030. The results are concerning

The Recommender: Himesh Patel

Mar 27, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Himesh Patel

The actor whose roles include Yesterday, Station Eleven and now Bait picks his current cultural favourites

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Pary Baban's slow-cooked lamb & butter bean stew

Mar 27, 2026

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4 min read

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Pary Baban's slow-cooked lamb & butter bean stew

The London restaurateur and ‘queen of Kurdish cooking’ shares a hearty spring recipe from her debut cookbook

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


Fake quotes, factual errors and ChatGPT links – my bizarre journey into Matt Goodwin’s new book

Mar 24, 2026

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8 min read

Fake quotes, factual errors and ChatGPT links – my bizarre journey into Matt Goodwin’s new book

The Reform UK candidate’s polemic Suicide of a Nation claims to expose a toxic elite leading Britain to annihilation, but my close reading revealed a mix of phantom sources and falsehoods. Then MattGPT answered back... By Andy Twelves

Andy Twelves
Andy Twelves
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security

Mar 13, 2026

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10 min read

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

Charlie Young
Charlie Young
Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread

Feb 24, 2026

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14 min read

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics, writes Tamsin Shaw

Tamsin Shaw
Tamsin Shaw
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
Virginia Heffernan

CULTURE


‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective

Mar 24, 2026

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9 min read

‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective

The Turner prize-nominated painter, whose luminous canvases span portraiture, barbershop interiors and the lush landscapes of his Jamaican heritage, talks to Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge

Emily LaBarge
Emily LaBarge
SNL UK proved everyone wrong: it’s a big, British, Saturday riot

Mar 24, 2026

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8 min read

SNL UK proved everyone wrong: it’s a big, British, Saturday riot

The US sketch-show behemoth didn’t seem like a natural export, but it has pulled together the biggest collection of homegrown talent in years, writes comedian Max Olesker

The Nerve Hotlist

Mar 24, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week - from musician James Blake on fine form to a dive into Hokusai's Great Wave - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH


Thuy Diem Pham’s lemongrass and coconut chicken curry

Mar 6, 2026

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5 min read

Thuy Diem Pham’s lemongrass and coconut chicken curry

The London-based chef and restaurateur shares her addictive, easy-cook recipe for Vietnamese cà ri gà

Coconut, basil and broccoli noodle broth by Bosh!

Feb 20, 2026

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5 min read

Coconut, basil and broccoli noodle broth by Bosh!

Bestselling British vegan duo Henry Firth and Ian Theasby share a fragrant, nourishing dish with a spicy peanut topping from their latest collection

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

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

Ben Benton’s masala fish pie with spiced pea thoran

Mar 20, 2026

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6 min read

Ben Benton’s masala fish pie with spiced pea thoran

The chef and podcaster describes the genesis of a new recipe, inspired by his travels in search of Britain’s best food for his forthcoming book

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