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The Recommender: Kiell Smith-Bynoe

The Recommender: Kiell Smith-Bynoe

The star of Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats shares his favourite recent cultural favourites

Culture

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Life next door to a data centre | Tuesday Edition

Life next door to a data centre | Tuesday Edition

Plus – Tom ‘Palantir’ Watson goes on the attack | Sangita Myska on Burnham’s big promise | Culture hotlist

Sangita Myska: Burnham has promised to become the King of Care. I’m desperate to believe he’ll succeed

Sangita Myska: Burnham has promised to become the King of Care. I’m desperate to believe he’ll succeed

Having witnessed, and reported on, the parlous state of the system that looks after the vulnerable, I know how important (and how difficult) reform will be, writes the Nerve’s political columnist

Sangita Myska

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week, from Austen remixed to photographer Sunil Gupta's loving portraits of queer life, as chosen by our editors and writers

Hotlist

'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir

'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalladr

News

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Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital

Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital

With an estimated 40 facilities packed tightly together in the town, local people say their quality of life is being ruined by strange and unsettling noise pollution. Brenna Spain reports

News

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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm

‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm

Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats

News

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Stewart Lee: At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns'

Stewart Lee: At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns'

The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – seems beyond us

Stewart Lee

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‘What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away’: Omar El Akkad on watching the horror in Gaza from the west

‘What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away’: Omar El Akkad on watching the horror in Gaza from the west

The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This talks to Ramita Navai about conflict, apathy, and the privilege of living ‘on the launching side of the missiles’

Books

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