# The Nerve

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## Posts
- [The Nerve Hotlist ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-culture-recommendations-naza-david-threlfall-king-lear-rent): The best culture to enjoy this week, from David Threlfall as King Lear to a chilling new documentary about mass killings in Gaza using AI – as chosen by our writers and editors
- [Sangita Myska: Zack Polanski is in a deep political hole. His own party put him there](https://www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-myska-column-zack-polanski-green-party-zionism-racism-antisemitism-vote): The Greens’ leader did not handle the pointless and damaging conference motion about Zionism well. But why on earth would his own supporters create such a trap for him?
- [Philippa Perry: In a dismal job market for young people, parental anxiety isn’t helping](https://www.thenerve.news/p/philippa-perry-column-job-market-young-people-graduate-unemployment-anxiety): With hiring down and entry-level occupations declining, Britain’s youth is navigating an employment landscape unlike anything we experienced at their age, writes the Nerve’s cultural agony aunt
- [John Cooper Clarke: ‘I could go to six funerals a week. But no man can live on vol au vents alone’ ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/john-cooper-clarke-interview-poet-salford-book-have-it): The Bard of Salford, who is publishing his latest poetry collection at 77, talks to Ursula Kenny about getting older, wrestling with technology and the joys of cycling on very flat roads
- [Yuval Noah Harari on the threat of AI: ‘Fascism isn’t the worst-case scenario. Fascism is still human’](https://www.thenerve.news/p/yuval-noah-harari-maria-ressa-carole-cadwalladr-conversation-ai-superintelligence-fascism-regulation): The bestselling author joined Nobel-winning journalist Maria Ressa and the Nerve’s Carole Cadwalladr for an in-depth and sometimes alarming conversation about humanity’s near future.
- [Review of the Week: The 90s: Art and Fashion](https://www.thenerve.news/p/review-the-90s-art-and-fashion-tate-britain-ben-luke-edward-enninful): We were due a rigorous cultural appraisal of an increasingly mythologised decade. Sadly, Tate Britain's jarring clash of modern masterpieces and glossy-mag photoshoots is not it, writes Nerve art critic Ben Luke. Plus, he picks five shows to see during Frieze month in London
- [Teargas, memes and bin barricades: France’s angry students have revived the ghosts of ’68](https://www.thenerve.news/p/france-protests-paris-students-high-school-1968-police-teachers): The youth uprising against pest-ridden and overcrowded schools has split political and social opinion in the country even as it drifts towards the far right, writes Phineas Rueckert from Paris
- [‘When you feel something, that’s what fuels you’: how a new generation of performers is reviving the theatre of protest](https://www.thenerve.news/p/protest-theatre-companies-social-issues-stuffed-these-are-our-neighbours-unfortunately): On stages across the UK this autumn, theatre companies are fighting social issues head-on, using clowns, choreography and even food donations from the audience. Maddy Costa reports
- [Weekend Dish: Ali Stoner’s Cullen skink bake](https://www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-dish-recipe-ali-stoner-scran-scotland-cullen-skink-bake): The home cook and former Masterchef Australia contestant shares a new twist on an old Scottish favourite from her debut recipe book
- [‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility](https://www.thenerve.news/p/frances-haugen-facebook-whistleblower-interview-social-reckoning-mark-zuckerberg): The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of things’
- [The Nerve Hotlist ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-culture-recommendations-carrie-turner-prize-es-devlin-salman-toor): The best culture to enjoy this week – from Salman Toor’s richly imagined queer worlds to AK Blakemore’s dazzling novel of a 19th-century English revolt – as chosen by our editors and writers
- [Deborah Frances-White: It’s not just Cornell: rape culture spreads from frat houses to business, politics and even boys’ phones](https://www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-frances-white-column-cornell-7-university-chi-phi-fraternity-rape): College fraternities are notoriously unsafe places for women. But it’s worse than that: they are also where the most powerful men in the world learn to be misogynistic, writes the Guilty Feminist
- [Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-1bn-pound-cost-britain-uk-contracts-nhs-fdp-mod-police-peter-thiel-andy-burnham): Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert reports 
- [Review of the Week: The Standard of Living at Theatre Royal Haymarket](https://www.thenerve.news/p/review-theatre-the-standard-of-living-james-graham-keynes-economist): Uniquely talented at turning political history into lively drama, the playwright James Graham’s soulful, timely portrait of economist John Maynard Keynes explores what it means to lead ‘a good life’, writes Dorian Lynskey
- [Tim Anderson’s curry ramen](https://www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-dish-recipe-tim-anderson-japanese-curry-ramen-book): The chef, author and Japanese food enthusiast shares a classic comfort food recipe from his new cookbook