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Review of the Week: Music, Fashion, Film by Charli xcx

The follow-up album to 2024’s zeitgeist-defining Brat is short, sharp and rocky – but also feels like it’s grasping for something that stays out of reach, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Reviews

Stewart Lee: I wanted a King of the North. Not a King of the North Sea

In the face of heat and urban wildfires, is Andy ‘Burn Them!’ Burnham really going to approve more oil drilling? So much for net zero – or voting Labour again

Stewart Lee

Christina Soteriou's spicy mushroom skewers with peanut lime sauce

The vegan chef Christina Soteriou shares a zingy dish that works both as a healthy evening meal and a dinner-party treat

Weekend Dish

Adele Walton: The Online Safety Act is supposed to make Britain’s internet a safe space – yet it can’t touch the site linked to my sister’s death

Ofcom says it has used all its powers and can do no more against a pro-suicide forum. For bereaved families like mine, only a public inquiry can explain why

News

Liz Truss, dark money and the gen-Z Catholics: who’s behind CPAC in the UK?

The British debut of Maga’s favourite conference last week was widely seen as a joke. But a Nerve investigation reveals its young organisers are part of a web of culture-war connections – from the US Christian right to Viktor Orbán's influence network. Alice McCool reports

Investigations

Natasha Walter: We’ve gone from climate denial to something worse – climate fatalism

The message in the western media, as global heating becomes undeniable, seems now to be that nothing can be done. That is unacceptable – especially for those in developing countries who are suffering so greatly from the crisis we created

Environment

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's don't-miss cultural picks, from Nia Archives' genre-blending new album to a riveting King Lear in Pitlochry, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, who’s tracked him for a decade, reports on why

Reform UK

'We’ve been here before – bizarre men naming themselves king and behaving horribly': author Max Porter on hope, history and his dog, Happy

The bestselling writer fears for growing crises in both politics and literacy, he tells Jude Rogers – so he’s written a children’s book to get back to a ‘joyful place’

Q&A