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Stewart Lee: Want to protect women and girls? I’d keep them away from Raise the Colours

Stewart Lee: Want to protect women and girls? I’d keep them away from Raise the Colours

A prominent flag-hanger has just been charged with making indecent images of children – as if the campaign’s relationship with the law wasn’t fraught enough already

Stewart Lee

‘If these social media apps were an air fryer, they would have been recalled’: digital campaigner Beeban Kidron on Big Tech

‘If these social media apps were an air fryer, they would have been recalled’: digital campaigner Beeban Kidron on Big Tech

The acclaimed film-maker and peer has made it her business to represent the rights of children and creators against Silicon Valley’s ‘giant compulsion machine’. She talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten

The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten

Down the road from London’s South Bank landmarks, the exhibition committee built a model social housing estate – for everyone, for the future. Seventy-five years on, where is that spirit now? By Phineas Harper

Culture

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The Recommender: Tahmima Anam

The Recommender: Tahmima Anam

The award-winning London-based novelist shares her latest cultural discoveries

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Jim Moore’s Gold Coast-inspired coconut and lime shrimp skewers

Jim Moore’s Gold Coast-inspired coconut and lime shrimp skewers

The Northern Irish barbecue champion shares a sun-soaked, Australian-influenced recipe for the grill from his new book

Weekend Dish

‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill

‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill

Nigel Farage launched it in Las Vegas and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, Reform’s flagship policy has disappeared. When you understand who would benefit from its proposals – and from other policies Farage has lobbied for since – this is perhaps no surprise. By Ian Tucker

The Harborne Receipts

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's don't-miss cultural picks, from sculptor Anish Kapoor's gigantic forms to an intimate, war-torn love story, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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Philippa Perry: Prime ministers change, but the problems stay the same. Here's my advice for Andy Burnham

Philippa Perry: Prime ministers change, but the problems stay the same. Here's my advice for Andy Burnham

In families, as in politics, blame for dysfunction is often pinned on one individual. But the issue is usually a shared inability to process conflict, writes the Nerve’s cultural agony aunt

Philippa Perry

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As Farage is investigated ... did Boris Johnson also fail to disclose a gift from Christopher Harborne?

As Farage is investigated ... did Boris Johnson also fail to disclose a gift from Christopher Harborne?

Leaked documents appear to reveal a previously undeclared trip made by the former PM with the crypto and defence billionaire to the heart of war-torn Ukraine. Report by Carole Cadwalladr and Charlie Young

The Harborne Receipts

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