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Philippa Perry: My 10 rules for a happier Christmas

Philippa Perry: My 10 rules for a happier Christmas

Dreading the post-turkey singalong? Haunted by spirits of the past? It’s time to step back and think about how your rituals could become truly festive again, says the Nerve's cultural agony aunt

Culture

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‘I’m interested in humour!’: How Isobel Waller-Bridge made her new album with Hoovers, shoes and balls

‘I’m interested in humour!’: How Isobel Waller-Bridge made her new album with Hoovers, shoes and balls

The film and classical composer talks to Kate Hutchinson about avant-garde music, ASMR and the whirlwind experience of working on Fleabag

Culture

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

Great culture to check out this week – from Singin' in the Rain in Manchester to a jaw-dropping new Netflix doc – all recommended by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

From a moving rumination on class to a gripping novel about desire, our team of writers and editors each recommend a title they’ve loved over the past 12 months – and one they’re hoping to get for Christmas

Culture

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Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Reviews

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The Recommender: Bel Powley

The Recommender: Bel Powley

The actor on her latest art and culture discoveries

TV

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Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

Stewart Lee: AI has worked out how to blackmail its human enemies. So why is it still so useless at shopping?

If a leading scientist is right, we have five years until we’re being sextorted by smart kettles and facing the ‘ultimate risk’ to our existence – and yet AI can't recognise an album format. It almost makes you nostalgic for the 80s

Stewart Lee

Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

London restaurateurs Tim Siadatan and Jordan Frieda share an easy but indulgent Italian favourite from their award-winning cookbook

Weekend Dish

‘A permission structure for violence’: what the murder of a healthcare CEO and the cult of Luigi Mangione tell us about the alienation of young America

‘A permission structure for violence’: what the murder of a healthcare CEO and the cult of Luigi Mangione tell us about the alienation of young America

On the anniversary of the death of the UnitedHealthcare boss, John H Richardson, the author of a new book about the man charged with the killing, talks to John Mulholland about the contrasting attitudes to the case, and the ‘distress’ endemic in US society

Politics

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