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The Recommender: Greentea Peng

The London-born psychedelic R&B singer shares her current cultural favourites

Culture

Review: Rosebush Pruning

Karim Aïnouz’s stylish, starry satire about a super-rich family indulges our obsession with the depraved excesses of the wealthy, but it’s no Parasite, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

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Zena Kamgaing's one-pan Thai curry salmon with coconut rice

The recipe developer shares a speedy, delicious dinner from her easy-cook recipe book

Weekend Dish

Sangita Myska: Burnham’s vow to deport the Rochdale gang leader is a big and difficult promise

The PM-in-waiting has marched on to the far right’s home turf by promising to act against Shabir Ahmed. He must know the task is fraught with obstacles and risk, writes the Nerve’s political columnist

Sangita Myska

Deborah Frances-White: No, Nigel, not all men are misogynist, and not all pubs are either

When the erstwhile MP for Clacton defended a candidate’s crass comments about women, he called them something ‘you’ll hear in every pub in the country’. Our survey of pubs suggest that’s simply not true, writes 'the Guilty Feminist'

Reform UK

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's top cultural picks, from Olivia Wilde's sexy couples comedy to a celebration of ice cream, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Culture

We’re being asked to save two buckets of water a day. Meanwhile data centres drink a town’s worth

England is heading for a 5bn-litre daily water shortfall by 2055 – so why is the government fast-tracking one of the most water-hungry industries there is, and letting it keep its consumption private, asks campaigner Adele Walton

Environment

Chequers gatherings, Johnson's diary and a new jet fighter... how billionaire Christopher Harborne became a big player in defence

Soon after the Ukraine war broke out, the investor emerged as a highly favoured backer of the Tory government – and then a major shareholder in privatised defence lab QinetiQ at a transformative moment for its fortunes. By Carole Cadwalladr and Charlie Young

The Harborne Receipts

Review: Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

The scale is vast, and the message sometimes obvious, but this major exhibition in Manchester shows the celebrated artist can still create genuine intensity, writes Kadish Morris

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