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Skate secrets: how I fell in love with hit drama Heated Rivalry before I ever saw it on TV

The steamy gay ice hockey drama has become a global sensation – in part because chronically online people like me have been watching edits and memes about it for months, writes Michaela Makusha

Iran is forced to choose between the shah and the ayatollah. But we reject both

As far as we know, there are more protestors in danger on the streets than ever, writes UK-based Iranian filmmaker Elahe Esmaili. This wave of unrest could herald a new revolution for my country – if we can be truly free to create our own future

Politics

'The word terrorism is used to remove empathy': Natasha Walter on how language dehumanises the Palestine Action hunger strikers

Heba Muraisi has never been charged, tried or convicted of terrorism. But she and the other hunger strikers have been stripped of humanity in the way they have been labelled by the government. The damage is evident in how ordinary people react to them

Politics

The Recommender: Ali Smith

The multi-award-winning, Booker-shortlisted novelist picks her current cultural favourites

Books

Stewart Lee: Nakedly imperialist oil wars just aren’t what they used to be

Call me nostalgic, but didn’t the US used to have a cover story for invading South American countries – or at least have a president who could remember what it was?

Review of the Week: Hamnet

Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes Ellen E Jones

Reviews

Amber Guinness’s spinach and ricotta malfatti in broth

The cook and author shares one of her mother’s signature dishes – a Tuscan classic featuring deliciously light dumplings in a warming broth for cold winter nights

Food

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

The crises over Venezuela and Greenland are not accidental – they are part of the White House’s stated vision for a new world order run by the ‘great powers’, writes analyst and former diplomat Arthur Snell

Investigations

‘At 18 I was outside theatres begging for money.’ Actor Denise Gough on poverty, Palestine and homemaking

About to open in the stage version of the western High Noon, opposite Billy Crudup, and in the film of H Is for Hawk, the star of Andor answers the Nerve Q&A

Q&A