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

Feb 13, 2026

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13 min read

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

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

Virginia Heffernan

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

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 Recommender: Olia Hercules

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

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

Review of the Week: Sessa live at Rich Mix

As Brazilian music enjoys a resurgence in Britain, São Paulo’s rising star troubadour visits a rainy London and lifts the crowd to a higher, happier plane, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

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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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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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

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

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

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

Philippa Perry

‘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

We’ve found the dog ... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

Feb 13, 2026

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3 min read

We’ve found the dog ... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

The smart doorbell company’s heartwarming story of helping find a lost pet was quickly called out by viewers as a chilling demonstration of high tech surveillance, writes Michaela Makusha

Michaela Makusha

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

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

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

The Recommender: Olia Hercules

Review of the Week: Sessa live at Rich Mix

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

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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

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

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

We’ve found the dog ... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

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Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

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