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Alissa Timoshkina’s kopytka with mushroom and spinach sauce

The award-winning food writer shares a Polish potato dumpling dish that’s perfect comfort food for autumn

Weekend Dish

Trump, Putin and now Xi – Europeans are at the mercy of an authoritarian axis

Stoking unrest in Europe has become part of Maga’s masterplan – and they are just pushing at an open door, thanks to the continent’s feeble and indecisive leaders, writes analyst and former diplomat Arthur Snell

‘The BBC manual doesn't talk about morality’: Stephen Sackur on HardTalk, despots and the impartiality problem in Gaza

The former interviewer and foreign correspondent has written a book about courageous reporters – and is increasingly sceptical about the hands-off, ‘both-sides’ journalism the national broadcaster is required to produce, he tells Carole Cadwalladr

Interview

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week – from a riotous gen Z sitcom to an elegant cinematic study of Thomas Mann – as chosen by our editors and writers

Hotlist

‘A new kind of power’: investigation reveals spread of Palantir’s influence across Europe

The most revealing report yet into the AI company’s business across Europe, by a consortium led by Follow the Money, shows it holds €1.4bn of contracts – but that, on the continent as in the UK, doubts are growing about it as a partner. Sebastiaan Brommersma reports, with an introduction by Carole Cadwalladr

It wasn’t all Britpop and Cool Britannia – the 90s had a dark (and very weird) side too

As a fledgling singer and i-D cover star in the pre-#MeToo era, Kerry Shaw was courted by the decade’s ‘cocaine and Concorde’ impresarios – until she had to flee an unforgettably strange encounter in a hotel room

Culture

Stewart Lee: Putin uses social media to undermine us. And you know who else does? Donald Trump

Brexit, Russia, Twitter bots – it’s been a good week for finally acknowledging a decade’s worth of malign influences on Britain. But let’s not overlook perhaps the biggest and most hostile troll of all

Stewart Lee

The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide

On Teesside, maritime livelihoods are in crisis – and, as a powerful new documentary reveals, crews are sure the local freeport is to blame. Hannah Jane Parkinson reports. Plus, Ellen E Jones on five more documentaries to look out for

Environment

Review of the Week: Fontaines DC – Dopamine Chamber

The outspoken Irish rockers’ new album is a gothic and muscular reckoning with our looming digital apocalypse, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews