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Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes Martin Shipton

Politics

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Cory Doctorow on stage with the Nerve: ‘The web is five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four’

In our first live event, the author shares with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr his strong opinions on Facebook, Peter Thiel, AI – and what we can do to combat the enshittification of the internet

Tech

Rumours, reports and a row on Facebook: how I followed the Russian trail to Nathan Gill

Five years before the disgraced ex-Reform politician was sentenced, political scientist Anton Shekhovtsov had encountered his name during his research. Here he recounts how what at first seemed like a footnote grew into a scandal

Investigations

Rachel Reeves: please stand up for the arts!

This week the chancellor delivers her much-leaked budget. Will funding for the UK arts sector be upped or slashed once again? We asked figures from the world of culture, including Khalid Abdalla, Ali Smith, Rachael Stirling and Hak Baker, for a call to arms

Culture

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week – from a feisty Taipei-set family drama to a bumper celebration of UK rave culture – all seen and chosen for you by our team of editors and writers

Culture

Review of the week: Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum

Our art critic Emily LaBarge is charmed by a deep dive into the pastel-hued world of the American film director, through costumes, props, scripts and more

Reviews

Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?

On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press

Politics

Stewart Lee: A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. It put me in mind of Nigel Farage

The fly-tipping in Oxfordshire is threatening the health of the local river – just as 25 years of platforming the Reform leader in the media has polluted our national discourse

Stewart Lee