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Review of the Week: Erykah Badu & the Alchemist – Before The World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment

Review of the Week: Erykah Badu & the Alchemist – Before The World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment

The neo-soul queen is back with her first full-length release in over a decade: a hazy, epic collaboration with the Alchemist that transports you with every listen, writes Kate Hutchinson

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ICE’s tech enablers are already embedded in the British state

ICE’s tech enablers are already embedded in the British state

Palantir, Anduril, Cellebrite and others supply America’s deportation machine. They also hold UK contracts with the Home Office, MoD and police – offering surveillance capabilities that a Reform government would inherit. Max Colbert reports

Tech

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Joe Woodhouse’s tiger salad summer rolls

Joe Woodhouse’s tiger salad summer rolls

The vegetarian chef and cookbook writer shares a fresh, zingy dish with a delicious 'double-dunk' sauce for the August bank holiday

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‘He was doing something amazing’: Jason Arday, by the friend who’s known him since childhood

‘He was doing something amazing’: Jason Arday, by the friend who’s known him since childhood

In the relentless culture war surrounding the professor, the voices of those closest to him were absent. Here, his longstanding friend Sam Clark talks to the Nerve about the kind, warm and remarkable man he remembers

News

‘Epstein claimed Andrew was even kinkier than him’: Andrew Lownie on the book that rocked the royal family

‘Epstein claimed Andrew was even kinkier than him’: Andrew Lownie on the book that rocked the royal family

The biographer who knows more royal secrets than almost anyone else talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley about veiled threats, Fergie and the forces trying to hush up a scandal

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's top cultural picks – from Jorja Smith’s uplifting new album to the bumbling charm of TV's Ludwig – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Bribes, betrayal ... and Reform’s Nathan Gill: inside Russia’s operation to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe

Bribes, betrayal ... and Reform’s Nathan Gill: inside Russia’s operation to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe

In an exclusive extract from his new book, acclaimed foreign correspondent Luke Harding joins the dots of a continent-wide Kremlin influence network disrupted by the jailing of a former senior official in Nigel Farage’s party

Reform UK

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From ‘human printer’ to headline-maker: meet Trump’s devoted aide Natalie Harp

From ‘human printer’ to headline-maker: meet Trump’s devoted aide Natalie Harp

The 35-year-old runs behind the president’s golf cart in case he needs hard copies of things to read, and credits him with curing her cancer. Now that’s what you call an assistant, writes Hannah Jane Parkinson

Politics

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Students remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’

Students remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’

A viral article by an anonymous student suggested the academic was a “terrible” teacher. Undergraduates at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022, tell fellow alumna Michaela Makusha that their experience was very different

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