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Ursula Ferrigno’s Italian courgette pie

The Italian-born food writer shares an easy, summery dish perfect for antipasti, picnics or lunch in the sun.

Weekend Dish

Review of the Week: Glengarry Glen Ross at the Old Vic

Patrick Marber’s daring female reimagining of Mamet’s testosterone-soaked classic shows that capitalism can make a desperado of anyone, writes Dorian Lynskey

Reviews

Deborah Frances-White: The far right find any excuse for rioting and racist violence. Imagine if women took vigilante justice on their male abusers

The men who rush on to the streets to persecute immigrants in Belfast and beyond would be horrified by any act of feminist disorder, writes Deborah Frances-White

Deborah Frances-White

Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety

Keir Starmer's under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are. It is the natural conclusion of the Online Safety Act – and of a Brexit that was always about control, says digital rights advocate Heather Burns

Tech

The Nerve Hotlist

This week’s don’t-miss cultural picks, from Olivia Rodrigo's new album to Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

Part two of the Harborne Receipts, the Nerve’s investigation into the billionaire's influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, leaving a wound on the far right still raw today. By Carole Cadwalladr and Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Reform UK

Stewart Lee: Ireland is an island of fable and magic. It’s just a shame about the pogrom

On tour through glorious Irish towns, pubs and clubs, it was almost - but not quite - possible to tune out the race riots being stoked up in the North

Stewart Lee

Review: Disclosure Day

A Spielberg alien movie is not to be missed, writes Ellen E Jones – especially when the extraterrestrials might offer an alternative to our fraught political reality

Reviews

‘Literature is about digging, not putting on a show’: author Édouard Louis on writing as an act of working-class defiance

The French novelist’s unsparing autofiction about his poor and violent childhood is designed to challenge a leftwing establishment that is losing touch with those it represents, he tells Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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