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Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world

Feb 10, 2026

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14 min read

Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world

In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all is that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes Carole Cadwalladr

‘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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9 min read

‘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 10, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week – from a luminous show of Lucian Freud’s drawings to Lisa McGee’s hilarious follow-up to Derry Girls – as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Jan 30, 2026

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13 min read

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

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

Feb 10, 2026

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7 min read

Philippa Perry: Valentine's cards used to be anonymous and optional now they’re a public audit of devotion

Philippa Perry: Valentine's cards used to be anonymous and optional now they’re a public audit of devotion

This so called day of celebration of romance needs shrinking back to how it once was or it should be ignored. Love will continue perfectly well without it

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

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

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


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

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

Elahe Esmaili
Elahe Esmaili
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

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


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

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

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
Dorian Lynskey
Review of the Week: My Father’s Shadow

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

Ellen E Jones
Ellen E Jones

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH


Kai’s fish fingers and homemade mayonnaise

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

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

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

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

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

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