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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexit

Reform UK

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AI boom? Or AI bust? Are even the broligarchs admitting AI is a bubble?

AI boom? Or AI bust? Are even the broligarchs admitting AI is a bubble?

Peter Thiel is panic-dumping stock. Sam Altman is getting twitchy in interviews. The world is waking up to a trillion dollar emperor with no clothes, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Palantir

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An absent MP. A Russian traitor in Reform. I go to Clacton in search of Nigel Farage

An absent MP. A Russian traitor in Reform. I go to Clacton in search of Nigel Farage

On the trail of the elusive Reform leader, John Sweeney films a report in his struggling constituency – where even the prospect of Putin undermining British politics doesn’t raise many eyebrows

Investigations

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The visual arts sector has a class problem and I'm trying to fix it. Join me!

The visual arts sector has a class problem and I'm trying to fix it. Join me!

Meg Molloy, the founder of Working Arts Club, was the first person in her family to go to university and had to fight for her career and to fit in. Now she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her

Culture

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week – from a tale of forbidden love to the brilliant Irish showstopper CMAT on tour – all seen and chosen for you by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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Review of the week: Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall

Review of the week: Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall

They may have started off as self-deprecating jokers, but this pulsating live show is final proof that the Isle of Wight rockers are now something much bigger, writes Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

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'Everyday people can be heroes': ten things I’ve learned about humanity in a decade running Choose Love

'Everyday people can be heroes': ten things I’ve learned about humanity in a decade running Choose Love

Josie Fernandez-Marelli had no experience of the charity sector when she started fundraising for displaced people in Calais in 2015. Now her group operates in 50 countries – and here’s what she's learned along the way

Culture

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The Recommender: Nicôle Lecky

The Recommender: Nicôle Lecky

The Bafta-winning writer, actor and musician shares the culture she's been loving lately

Culture

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Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would

Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would

I may seem like an unlikely candidate. But at least I understand that the first step to facing down the organisation’s malevolent opponents is to stop appeasing them

Stewart Lee

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