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Özlem Warren’s börek traybake with spinach and cheese

The Turkish food writer shares a versatile and summery dish perfect for lunch, dinner or eating al fresco

Weekend Dish

‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future

The US reporter and bestselling author was one of the first journalists to get inside OpenAI – and was alarmed at what she found. Six years on, she tells Carole Cadwalladr, a coalition of resistance is growing to oppose the new Silicon Valley ascendancy

Tech

Timothy Snyder: We are watching the US attempt a superpower suicide

From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes the historian

Politics

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week - from a blistering new thriller from Russell T Davies to a deep dive into Britain’s lidos – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Sangita Myska: Over 2000 British citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza war. Our government doesn't want to know

A cross-party open letter demands the UK government upholds its obligations to screen returning dual-nationals for their links to potential war crimes

Sangita Myska

Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?

The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the former Tory prime minister. Report by Charlie Young and Lucia Osborne-Crowley

The Harborne Receipts

Banger racing, big hats and the beach: photographer Sophie Green celebrates British subcultures and social rituals

Ahead of a new exhibition, the acclaimed documentary photographer shares the stories behind her vibrant images of gatherings, traditions and “the eccentric lengths to which the British will go” when having fun

Culture

The Recommender: Rene Matić

The Turner-shortlisted artist, who this month won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize, shares some of their current cultural favourites

Recommender

Stewart Lee: Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable

Labour has chosen the precise moment when the Reform leader is in trouble to ... have a massive navel-gazing spat about leadership. Still, it’s not like the stakes are high or anything

Stewart Lee