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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week – from Nicola Walker in a pin-sharp new comedy to the triumphant return of War Horse – all seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

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Stewart Lee: Quick - dangerous ideologies are storming the beaches. Has anyone reserved a sun-lounger?

Stewart Lee: Quick - dangerous ideologies are storming the beaches. Has anyone reserved a sun-lounger?

At a Normandy D-Day commemoration, Pete Hegseth, the American Secretary of War, noted that beaches were stormed in 1944 and are being stormed by ideologies now. The two events share precisely one feature, and that is sand

Stewart Lee

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‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak

‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak

The Nerve’s Carole Cadwalladr was all set to talk to Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the explosive memoir Careless People, at the Hay festival when Meta’s lawyers intervened ... and turned the event into ‘absurdist theatre’

News

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‘What’s happening is horrifying’: the rebel film-maker challenging AI’s march into Hollywood

‘What’s happening is horrifying’: the rebel film-maker challenging AI’s march into Hollywood

While pro-Silicon Valley documentaries got major distribution deals, Valerie Veatch had to struggle to get her film, about Big Tech’s dark past and future, into the world. She talked to Charlotte O’Sullivan about what some attendees called ‘the scariest movie playing at Sundance’

Tech

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James McAvoy: 'I'm always going to try and find the laughs'

James McAvoy: 'I'm always going to try and find the laughs'

The Scottish Hollywood actor – and now first-time director – answers the Nerve Q&A on fame, indie film-making and snogging an unexpected co-star. Interview by Hanna Flint

Q&A

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Review of the week: Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Review of the week: Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Over a foreboding rock soundtrack, the California rapper delivers hard-edged, compelling social commentary on Trump, violence, Black stereotypes and more, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

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Ella Risbridger’s no-knife potato and prawn curry

Ella Risbridger’s no-knife potato and prawn curry

The bestselling cookbook writer shares a fresh and easy one-pot dinner – with no chopping-up required

Weekend Dish

The Recommender: Nilüfer Yanya

The Recommender: Nilüfer Yanya

The London-based singer-songwriter shares her latest cultural discoveries

Recommender

Philippa Perry: The spirit behind Peter Murrell’s spending spree isn’t greed

Philippa Perry: The spirit behind Peter Murrell’s spending spree isn’t greed

It’s normal for avaricious people to want a pen, a car, a watch, writes the Nerve’s cultural agony aunt. But what does it mean when, like Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, you buy the same status symbol over and over again?

Philippa Perry

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