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For GB News’s funders, £130 million is a small price to pay for vast influence

Mar 6, 2026

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8 min read

For GB News’s funders, £130 million is a small price to pay for vast influence

The channel of “reactionary rage bait” has just released its latest accounts, which are yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, argues Sam Bright

Sam Bright
Sam Bright
‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

Mar 3, 2026

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8 min read

‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter

Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter

Mar 6, 2026

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8 min read

Is pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black?

Is pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black?

The soul sensation – who started off as a white redhead – is seemingly taking music born of authenticity and community and reducing it to code. What does it mean if the making of music is taken over by machines?, asks Kadish Morris

Mar 6, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

The Turner prize-winning conceptual artist shares his current cultural favourites

Mar 6, 2026

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7 min read

Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

The kitsch live version of the singer’s gut-punch breakup album West End Girl feels, appropriately, like theatre, but somehow lacks a joyful climax, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Mar 6, 2026

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5 min read

Thuy Diem Pham’s lemongrass and coconut chicken curry

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

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


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

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

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
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
Virginia Heffernan
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

CULTURE


Shattered windows, broken rules ... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency

Feb 27, 2026

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11 min read

Shattered windows, broken rules ... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency

In the latest blow to draconian restraints on the right to protest, six doctors and nurses linked to Extinction Rebellion were dramatically acquitted last week. A play about their trial aims to shine a light on a barely publicised case. Claire Armitstead tells their story

Claire Armitstead
Claire Armitstead
The Nerve Hotlist

Mar 3, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week - from Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold take on Frankenstein to Tracey Emin's deeply poignant Tate show - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Review: Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First at the Royal Academy

Feb 27, 2026

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7 min read

Review: Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First at the Royal Academy

The huge, energetic paintings of the unstoppable 91-year-old artist, the first female British painter to have a solo exhibition in the RA’s main galleries, are a remarkable celebration of life and memory, writes Emily LaBarge

Emily LaBarge
Emily LaBarge

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH


Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

The chef and #CookforUkraine campaigner shares a recipe for kobete – a celebratory dish from the Greek diaspora on Ukraine’s southern coast

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

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

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

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