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Deborah Frances-White: Women are being sedated, raped, filmed ... we can’t stop it on our own

Deborah Frances-White: Women are being sedated, raped, filmed ... we can’t stop it on our own

Despite the Pelicot case, the uncovering of an extensive ‘sleep content’ abuse network has been under reported in the mainstream media. We desperately need influential and decent men to confront those who participate in this vile exploitation

Deborah Frances-White

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Pete Hegseth's Crusader tattoos aren’t just symbols – they're a battleplan

Pete Hegseth's Crusader tattoos aren’t just symbols – they're a battleplan

The US secretary of war has ‘God wills it’ inked on his right arm and a Jerusalem cross on his chest. Now he is directing hostilities against a Muslim country, writes Kat Tenbarge

Politics

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week’s top cultural picks – from a gripping modern Ibsen to an engaging series about teenage girls’ lives – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

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Sangita Myska: Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not

Sangita Myska: Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not

In the US, Trump is already riding roughshod over glaringly obvious conflicts of interest. We can’t let the same thing happen in Britain

Reform UK

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Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man is hard to watch. But does it have anything to say?

Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man is hard to watch. But does it have anything to say?

The acclaimed new drama from the creator of Baby Reindeer doesn’t ‘expose’ toxic masculinity so much as simply make a spectacle of it, writes Julia Raeside

TV

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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk, write Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker

Palantir

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Palantir's social media manifesto is a blueprint for technofascism

Palantir's social media manifesto is a blueprint for technofascism

The surveillance firm’s viral X post calls for hard power, conscription and the end of pluralism. AI expert and academic Mark Coeckelbergh on what happens when technology becomes the gateway to authoritarianism

Palantir

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Stewart Lee: Epstein’s evil legacy destroys everything it touches. Everything except Palantir

Stewart Lee: Epstein’s evil legacy destroys everything it touches. Everything except Palantir

Mandelson, and by extension Starmer, are tainted by proximity to the abuse scandal. But the paedophile was a close associate of Peter Thiel too. Why don’t we talk about that?

Stewart Lee

Georgina Hayden’s spring meatballs, pasta and peas

Georgina Hayden’s spring meatballs, pasta and peas

The bestselling cookbook author shares a light and fresh pasta dish that's packed with flavour

Weekend Dish

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