Dear Nerve gang,

It’s Lucia here, with positive news for once – it’s been a bad week so far for the hugely popular manosphere influencers the Tate brothers. Just yesterday, a federal judge in Florida ordered that Andrew and Tristan Tate must stay behind bars for at least another two weeks as the US courts grapple with their extradition to the UK to face charges of rape and sex trafficking, among other allegations.

As the brilliant Deborah Frances-White writes in her column today, this judicial no-nonsense approach appears indicative of a broader trend. Some of the Tates’ biggest fans have forsaken them – Nigel Farage, who only two years ago called Tate an “important voice for men”, has gone conspicuously silent since their US arrest. The Tates even seemed to believe Trump would come to their rescue, but his press secretary has confirmed that he won’t. So what’s changed?

As Deborah powerfully writes, this isn’t because the Tates’ wildfire-esque spread of contempt for women didn’t work – it’s because it did. The men they set out to embolden have been duly emboldened; they no longer need Andrew Tate to tell them it’s OK to say publicly that “women shouldn’t vote”. The brothers are no longer useful to the fans they once believed would always rely on them – which comes as a shock to Andrew Tate, who whines from jail about being held in a solitary unit with “no visits”. But what the Tates didn’t count on, and what Deborah elucidates for us today, is this: “If you’re selling dehumanisation, those who will buy will feel no empathy for you when the time comes.”

Here are the links to all today’s stories:

In her column today, the Guilty Feminist writes that the influencer Andrew Tate has been abandoned by even his former diehard supporters. But thanks to him, male discourse around women, consent and empathy has been well and truly poisoned. Read the full column here.

A stark report by the UK intelligence services, setting out the security threat posed by climate change, was due to be published last year – and then it disappeared. Months later, after pressure from campaigners, a redacted version came out. Now another alarming report, on food security, has also came to light. As former Green party leader Caroline Lucas writes, for a government that has "repeatedly sought to create a conflict between environmental protection and prosperity”, were the studies’ conclusions a little too “inconvenient” for comfort? Read her column here.

The Big Apple looms large in the hotlist this week: it’s the setting for Furious, a fantastic new female-powered crime show on Disney+ starring Lola Petticrew as a female serial killer, and for Colson Whitehead’s “sharp, noirish” new novel, Cool Machine, recommended by Hanna Flint. And if you head to Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London you can lose yourself in the streets of New York (and beyond) as seen through the eyes of 38 photographic greats including Helen Levitt, Saul Leiter, Walker Evans, Roy DeCarava and more in its new show Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography. For all these tips and more in theatre, books and film, read this week’s hotlist.

The tech critic and Nerve columnist Cory Doctorow has a new book out – The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI – and will be in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr at Brighton Dome on 8 September. 20% discount for members.

Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was an international bestseller. On 23 September at The Station in Bristol he will be in conversation with journalist Ramita Navai, who won a Bafta for the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack.  Members can buy £6 tickets.

Stephen Sackur, the presenter of BBC’s HARDtalk before it was axed last year, has a new book, Hard Truth, out in October. Hear him in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr at London’s Conduit Club on 12 October. 15% discount for members. 

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We’ll be back on Friday with the Weekend Edition – see you then.

Lucia

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