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Review of the Week: Game of Thrones: The Mad King at the RSC

Review of the Week: Game of Thrones: The Mad King at the RSC

The stage version of George RR Martin’s blood-and-thunder saga is spectacular, serious, surprisingly empathetic – and could turn out to be a blockbuster, writes Nerve theatre critic Dorian Lynskey

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Sabrina Ghayour’s roasted spiced aubergine and tomato

Sabrina Ghayour’s roasted spiced aubergine and tomato

The bestselling author of Persiana shares a mezze-friendly creation from her new collection of one-pan recipes

Food

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Sangita Myska: Is Jason Arday a fantasist or a victim of racism? Actually, he’s both

Sangita Myska: Is Jason Arday a fantasist or a victim of racism? Actually, he’s both

The former professor’s claims about his extraordinary life do not bear scrutiny. But the frenzied and vicious reporting about him is impugning the good name of every black academic

News

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's top cultural picks – from a cool Anthony Bourdain biopic to Phoebe Bridgers’s soul-searching new album – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline

Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline

As the revelations around donations to Reform and its leader multiply, we’re keeping the receipts. Carole Cadwalladr introduces a master timeline of our investigation into Farage’s biggest funder, cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne, and argues that Farage is a symptom, not a cause, of forces reshaping politics across the world

Reform UK

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Philippa Perry: Feeling guilty about going on holiday? Of course. But you should go anyway

Philippa Perry: Feeling guilty about going on holiday? Of course. But you should go anyway

There is more suffering and crisis on a burning planet than is possible for one person to process. It’s better for you, and everyone who needs you, to take a break sometimes, writes our cultural agony aunt

Environment

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Ellen E Jones: AI can already create films. What it can’t create is art

Ellen E Jones: AI can already create films. What it can’t create is art

A machine-made movie has premiered at Tribeca and virtual actor Tilly Norwood is about to star in a feature. But if there’s no soul, no emotion, or no attempt at human connection ... who cares? By Ellen E Jones

Culture

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The Recommender: Bryony Kimmings

The Recommender: Bryony Kimmings

The performance artist and screenwriter shares her latest cultural discoveries

Recommender

Review of the Week: Richard Dadd - Beyond Bedlam at the RA

Review of the Week: Richard Dadd - Beyond Bedlam at the RA

This reappraisal of the Victorian fantasy painter, who spent decades in institutions after killing his father, reveals both his extraordinary technical prowess and his limitations as an artist, writes Ben Luke

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