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‘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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‘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

This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out

Mar 13, 2026

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7 min read

This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out

For four decades, the Israeli premier has wanted to attack Iran but could never persuade a US president to join him. Former diplomat Arthur Snell asks: what’s changed?

Arthur Snell

Mar 13, 2026

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8 min read

Philippa Perry: How to cope with news of war in our social media age

Our suffering is nothing compared to those experiencing war, but our brains still process news of trauma as a threat. With a 24/7 media, it’s important to manage our attention and emotions for the long haul advises the Nerve's psychotherapist and agony aunt

Mar 13, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor

The Hot Chip frontman and solo artist on his latest cultural discoveries

Mar 13, 2026

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6 min read

Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing

John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Mar 13, 2026

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5 min read

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Joe Woodhouse’s garlic-chilli potato dumplings

The popular veggie cookbook author shares an easy and flavourful one-pot family dinner

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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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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

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

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Mar 10, 2026

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7 min read

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor Martin Bright

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

CULTURE

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

Mar 6, 2026

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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

Kadish Morris

Mar 10, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week - from Kim Gordon’s new album to Rachel Weisz’s steamy Netflix fantasy - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Mar 6, 2026

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7 min read

Review: 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

Kate Hutchinson

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

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

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

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

This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out

Philippa Perry: How to cope with news of war in our social media age

The Recommender: Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor

Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Joe Woodhouse’s garlic-chilli potato dumplings

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

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

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

CULTURE

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

The Nerve Hotlist

Review: Lily Allen on tour

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

Coconut, basil and broccoli noodle broth by Bosh!

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

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