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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert

Palantir

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No one’s sure what’s up with the Beckhams. So why does everyone think the women are to blame?

No one’s sure what’s up with the Beckhams. So why does everyone think the women are to blame?

A grown man posted claims on his own social media account – and critics immediately rounded on his wife and his mum, because female behaviour is always the first to be moralised, writes author and comedian Tova Leigh

Culture

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How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago

How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago

I’ve worked at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, writes Bruno Giussani. It used to achieve things, but is now a fully fledged sub-division of Donald Trump's court

Politics

Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla

Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla

When I started writing this column, Trump was about to invade Greenland. By the time I’d finished, he wasn’t. Who knows what will be happening by the time you read it?

Stewart Lee

The Recommender: Laurie Kynaston

The Recommender: Laurie Kynaston

The award-winning stage and screen actor shares his latest cultural favourites

Culture

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Review: World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams

Review: World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams

The high priestess of Americana is getting more and more politically charged as she enters her 70s – with guest collaborators including Big Thief helping her address the moral collapse of the US on her new album, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

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Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

The Instagram cook and food creator, aka @recipeswith_jess, offers up one of her healthy, high-protein recipes

Food

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‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’

The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that European governments needs to wake up, fast

Politics

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The media almost destroyed Janet Jackson over ‘nipplegate’. I want to help reclaim her legacy

The media almost destroyed Janet Jackson over ‘nipplegate’. I want to help reclaim her legacy

The 2004 Super Bowl indecency scandal could have ruined several careers, but it seemed it was only the black, female singer who really suffered, writes Paula Varjack, whose new show sets out to explore why - and whether anything has changed

Culture

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