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Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

If it’s true that the Iran war will mark ‘Jesus’s return to Earth’, as US forces have been told, at least that would suggest there was some kind of plan

Stewart Lee

The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

The Turner prize-winning conceptual artist shares his current cultural favourites

Culture

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Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

The kitsch live version of the singer’s gut-punch breakup album West End Girl feels, appropriately, like theatre, but somehow lacks a joyful climax, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

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Thuy Diem Pham’s lemongrass and coconut chicken curry

Thuy Diem Pham’s lemongrass and coconut chicken curry

The London-based chef and restaurateur shares her addictive, easy-cook recipe for Vietnamese cà ri gà

Food

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The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, PM: they’re just behaving like Labour should

The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, PM: they’re just behaving like Labour should

After a heavy byelection defeat, Starmer only sounded absurd by implying that the winner – popular local councillor Hannah Spencer – was ready to ‘tear the country apart’, writes Sangita Myska

Sangita Myska

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week - from Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold take on Frankenstein to Tracey Emin's deeply poignant Tate show - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter

Culture

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'Why should young people have to beat an algorithm?’ Molly Russell, Meta, and the fight against online harm

'Why should young people have to beat an algorithm?’ Molly Russell, Meta, and the fight against online harm

As a new documentary tells the story of the teenager, who took her own life in 2017, her father, her friends and the film’s director talk about the unchecked power and threat of social media

Tech

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Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine

Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine

Have you engineered a Gotcha! moment? Have you shorn it of context? Then all you need to do is drop it from a height and make a mess online

Stewart Lee

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