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‘Epstein would find unsupported children and tell them: I’ll save you’

‘Epstein would find unsupported children and tell them: I’ll save you’

At the Laugharne Weekend festival, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of four journalists in the courtroom daily for Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, talked to Robin Ince about abuse, justice and the ‘rape myths’ that silence survivors

Books

Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun

Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun

Two seismic court decisions in the US have intervened where legislators have failed to defend social media users from exploitation, writes campaigner Zamaan Qureshi

Tech

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

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

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The Nerve Hotlist

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

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

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

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

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

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Review of the Week: Sexistential by Robyn

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

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The Recommender: Himesh Patel

The Recommender: Himesh Patel

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

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