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'The word terrorism is used to remove empathy': Natasha Walter on how language dehumanises the Palestine Action hunger strikers

'The word terrorism is used to remove empathy': Natasha Walter on how language dehumanises the Palestine Action hunger strikers

Heba Muraisi has never been charged, tried or convicted of terrorism. But she and the other hunger strikers have been stripped of humanity in the way they have been labelled by the government. The damage is evident in how ordinary people react to them

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Brian Eno: Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1

Brian Eno: Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1

The artists behind this autumn's sold-out Palestine solidarity concert have just released a charity record, Lullaby. Here the musician and activist explains why it matters

Music

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Stewart Lee: Remember when America used to destroy democracy in style? Those were the days

Stewart Lee: Remember when America used to destroy democracy in style? Those were the days

The CIA once promoted abstract expressionism as a tool of regime change. Now we have AI videos of Trump bombing people with faeces

Stewart Lee

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Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media

Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media

In the absence of any youth-friendly policies, British politicians, led by Keir Starmer, are doubling down on online comms – and it isn’t working. Nerve editorial assistant Anandita Abraham analyses some cover-your-eyes examples

Tech

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Philippa Perry: My 10 rules for a happier Christmas

Philippa Perry: My 10 rules for a happier Christmas

Dreading the post-turkey singalong? Haunted by spirits of the past? It’s time to step back and think about how your rituals could become truly festive again, says the Nerve's cultural agony aunt

Culture

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John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time

John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time

The Nerve's Reform correspondent assesses teenager George Finch’s recent controversial comments about the alleged rape of a child – and says he’s skating on thin ice

Reform UK

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Stewart Lee: Had youthful Farage’s youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared

Stewart Lee: Had youthful Farage’s youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared

You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not

Stewart Lee

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

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

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

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

Culture

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

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

Culture

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The prince, the paedophile and the walk in the park: why did Andrew meet Epstein that day in New York?

The prince, the paedophile and the walk in the park: why did Andrew meet Epstein that day in New York?

Last week Democrat members of the US Congress called for Mr Mountbatten Windsor to be interviewed as part of their investigation into the dead financier. The former prince has one big question to answer, writes John Sweeney

Politics

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Dear frustrated climate activists:  perhaps there's a better way of protesting?

Dear frustrated climate activists: perhaps there's a better way of protesting?

Nerve ‘cultural agony aunt’ Philippa Perry digs into the issue of fruitless protest using lessons learnt in couples counselling training. It's all about accentuating the positive...

Opinion

Celebrity Traitors is era-defining telly - because it knows that fame is the ultimate deceit

Celebrity Traitors is era-defining telly - because it knows that fame is the ultimate deceit

Will anyone ever trust Jonathan Ross again? Will Tom Daley come out in the edit as the ultimate villain? The genius of the new A-list version of The Traitors, argues Julia Raeside, is that it turns the celebrity power dynamic on its head

TV

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