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Small talk, lager and limp handshakes: face to face with MattGPT in the studio

After his critique of Matthew Goodwin’s rightwing manifesto Suicide of a Nation went viral, Andy Twelves was invited on to GB News for a live debate with the failed candidate for Gorton and Denton. How did Goodwin's defence of his book work out?

Reform UK

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week – from a Tony-winning high-school stage drama to Riz Ahmed’s new comedy series – as picked by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto... Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop

What will Reform’s leader and party do for money now that their dubious income streams are being shut down?

Stewart Lee

The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie

Environment

Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’

Raoul Peck, director of a new film about the author, tells Dorian Lynskey that the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four was drawn from lived experience, not prophecy

Culture

Review of the Week: Sexistential by Robyn

Babies, boobs and pop bangers! The Swedish star is back with a euphoric new album embracing the joy of motherhood and messy, middle-aged desire, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

The Recommender: Himesh Patel

The actor whose roles include Yesterday, Station Eleven and now Bait picks his current cultural favourites

Recommender

Pary Baban's slow-cooked lamb & butter bean stew

The London restaurateur and ‘queen of Kurdish cooking’ shares a hearty spring recipe from her debut cookbook

Weekend Dish

What will AI's impact be on public-interest media? Ask an AI

As an ex-Google executive takes the helm of the BBC, film-maker Beadie Finzi asks Claude about what the media will look like in 2030. The results are concerning

Tech