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WEEKEND EDITION

The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

Dec 5, 2025

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20 min read

The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

From a moving rumination on class to a gripping novel about desire, our team of writers and editors each recommend a title they’ve loved over the past 12 months – and one they’re hoping to get for Christmas

‘A permission structure for violence’: what the murder of a healthcare CEO and the cult of Luigi Mangione tell us about the alienation of young America

Dec 4, 2025

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20 min read

‘A permission structure for violence’: what the murder of a healthcare CEO and the cult of Luigi Mangione tell us about the alienation of young America

On the anniversary of the death of the UnitedHealthcare boss, John H Richardson, the author of a new book about the man charged with the killing, talks to John Mulholland about the contrasting attitudes to the case, and the ‘distress’ endemic in US society

Dec 5, 2025

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7 min read

Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

If a leading scientist is right, we have five years until we’re being sextorted by smart kettles and facing the ‘ultimate risk’ to our existence – and yet AI can't recognise an album format. It almost makes you nostalgic for the 80s

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

The Recommender: Bel Powley

The Recommender: Bel Powley

The actor on her latest art and culture discoveries

Dec 5, 2025

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5 min read

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

London restaurateurs Tim Siadatan and Jordan Frieda share an easy but indulgent Italian favourite from their award-winning cookbook

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


Politics

Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

Nov 28, 2025

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6 min read

Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes Martin Shipton

Reform UK

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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

Nov 21, 2025

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26 min read

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexit

Culture

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The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

Nov 11, 2025

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8 min read

The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey

Dorian Lynskey
Dorian Lynskey

Tech

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‘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


Culture

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Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'

Dec 2, 2025

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9 min read

Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'

The Sheffield rocker, in rehearsal for his homecoming tour, answers the Nerve Q&A - on songs, socialism, swearing ... and the joy of dogs

Culture

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Is the current generation of leading men our best ever?

Nov 28, 2025

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6 min read

Is the current generation of leading men our best ever?

No longer dreaming of playing Bond, today’s group of young British and Irish actors are fun, reflective and helping to redefine masculinity. I'm all for it, says Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Ellen E Jones
Ellen E Jones

Culture

The Nerve Hotlist

Dec 2, 2025

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10 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

Great culture to check out this week – from a BBC dramatisation of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s hostage ordeal to Kayvan Novak’s hilarious new podcast – all recommended by our team of editors and writers

THE WEEKEND DISH


Yasmin Khan's gheimeh badinjan

Nov 14, 2025

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6 min read

Yasmin Khan's gheimeh badinjan

For the Nerve Weekend Dish, the cook and author shares her recipe for a warming, vegetarian Persian stew with aubergines, split peas and dried limes

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

Poppy Cooks' one-pot Tuscan salmon

Nov 28, 2025

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3 min read

Poppy Cooks' one-pot Tuscan salmon

Michelin-trained chef and TikTokker Poppy O’Toole shares a quick and delicious recipe for salmon

Anna Ansari's funchoza

Nov 21, 2025

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5 min read

Anna Ansari's funchoza

The food writer shares her recipe for funchoza – an addictive Uyghur lamb-and-noodle dish from a cuisine that deserves to be more widely known

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