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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

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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

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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

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The Recommender: Oyinkan Braithwaite

The award-winning author of My Sister, the Serial Killer shares her latest cultural discoveries

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The visual arts sector has a class problem and I'm trying to fix it. Join me!

Meg Molloy, the founder of Working Arts Club, was the first person in her family to go to university and had to fight for her career and to fit in. Now she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her

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Review of the week: Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall

They may have started off as self-deprecating jokers, but this pulsating live show is final proof that the Isle of Wight rockers are now something much bigger, writes Kate Hutchinson

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Actor Claes Bang: ‘I think I’m done with nudity. I’m fed up with it’

The Danish star of The Square and Dracula answers the Nerve Q&A - on his recent work, his favourite decade and the unexpected joy of gardening

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The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey

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'I wanted to write a Ripley kind of thriller’: Olivia Laing on their new book inspired by the mysterious murder of Pasolini

The bestselling author discusses their gay love story set in the sumptuous world of 70s Italian cinema, queer identity and artistic resistance. Interview by Claire Armitstead

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'Cinema is liberation': as more acclaimed films about Palestine emerge, why are many still fighting to reach an audience?

This year’s Oscars triumph for No Other Land should have been a watershed. But a crop of inspiring new titles, made against the odds – including award-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab – still face a struggle to be seen. Ellen E Jones reports

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The Nerve roundtable: How can culture fight back in a turbulent world?

At a panel discussion at our launch, Carole Cadwalladr talked to broadcaster Carol Vorderman, comedian Stewart Lee and film critic Ellen E Jones about clickbait comedy, GB News and why the arts are essential in troubled times

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Is the new Springsteen film final proof that Spotify killed the music biopic?

In the age of streaming and social media, big Hollywood music bios like Scott Cooper’s hymn to the Boss feel increasingly old-fashioned, writes Ellen E Jones

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Poet Hollie McNish: 'Rude jokes bring me joy'

The award winning poet answers the Nerve Q&A - on parenting, politics, and the enduring power of Dirty Dancing

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