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This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out

This is Netanyahu’s war. Trump was just afraid of missing out

For four decades, the Israeli premier has wanted to attack Iran but could never persuade a US president to join him. Former diplomat Arthur Snell asks: what’s changed?

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Stewart Lee: Blair. Hegseth. Disinformation. Hats. This post-truth news cycle is mutilizing our brains

Stewart Lee: Blair. Hegseth. Disinformation. Hats. This post-truth news cycle is mutilizing our brains

How are we supposed to cope with the tidal wave of lies, posturing and mangled English that is the byproduct of Trump at war?

Stewart Lee

Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing

Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing

John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

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The Recommender: Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor

The Recommender: Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor

The Hot Chip frontman and solo artist on his latest cultural discoveries

Recommender

Joe Woodhouse’s garlic-chilli potato dumplings

Joe Woodhouse’s garlic-chilli potato dumplings

The popular veggie cookbook author shares an easy and flavourful one-pot family dinner

Weekend Dish

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor Martin Bright

Politics

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Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war

Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war

Three weeks ago, briefly, the world was focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of women and girls. Now, as conflict rages, the tide of hyper-masculinity has risen again, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Politics

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week - from Kim Gordon’s new album to Rachel Weisz’s steamy Netflix fantasy - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers

Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers

Britain’s ailing construction industry should be embracing high-profile figures like builder-turned-MP Hannah Spencer. And why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks architecture writer Phineas Harper

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