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How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago

Jan 23, 2026

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9 min read

How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago

I’ve worked at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, writes Bruno Giussani. It used to achieve things, but is now a fully fledged sub-division of Donald Trump's court

Bruno Giussani
Bruno Giussani
No one’s sure exactly what’s up with the Beckhams. So why does everyone think the women are to blame?

Jan 23, 2026

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6 min read

No one’s sure exactly what’s up with the Beckhams. So why does everyone think the women are to blame?

A grown man posted claims on his own social media account – and critics immediately rounded on his wife and his mum, because female behaviour is always the first to be moralised, writes author and comedian Tova Leigh

Jan 23, 2026

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7 min read

Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla

Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla

When I started writing this column, Trump was about to invade Greenland. By the time I’d finished, he wasn’t. Who knows what will be happening by the time you read it?

Jan 23, 2026

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7 min read

Review of the Week: World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams

Review of the Week: World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams

The high priestess of Americana is getting more and more politically charged as she enters her 70s – with guest collaborators including Big Thief and Brittney Spencer helping her address the moral collapse of the US on her new album, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Jan 23, 2026

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4 min read

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti

The Instagram cook and food creator, aka @recipeswith_jess, offers up one of her healthy, high-protein recipes

Jan 23, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Laurie Kynaston

The Recommender: Laurie Kynaston

The award-winning stage and screen actor shares his latest cultural favourites

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance

Jan 20, 2026

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16 min read

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance

NEW VIDEO The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that European governments needs to wake up, fast

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr
Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda

Jan 19, 2026

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11 min read

Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda

Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts

John Mulholland
John Mulholland
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

Sep 30, 2025

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17 min read

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

Jan 8, 2026

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9 min read

Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world

The crises over Venezuela and Greenland are not accidental – they are part of the White House’s stated vision for a new world order run by the ‘great powers’, writes analyst and former diplomat Arthur Snell

CULTURE


‘The actors felt like they were talking to her’: inside the making of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Jan 16, 2026

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8 min read

‘The actors felt like they were talking to her’: inside the making of The Voice of Hind Rajab

The acclaimed Gaza docudrama is constructed around the real-life call for help from a girl killed in an Israeli strike – a decision that made filming an intense experience, one of its producers, James Wilson, tells Jonathan Romney

The media almost destroyed Janet Jackson over ‘nipplegate’. I want to help reclaim her legacy

Jan 20, 2026

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6 min read

The media almost destroyed Janet Jackson over ‘nipplegate’. I want to help reclaim her legacy

The 2004 Super Bowl indecency scandal could have ruined several careers, but it seemed it was only the black, female singer who really suffered, writes Paula Varjack, whose new show sets out to explore why - and whether anything has changed

The Nerve Hotlist

Jan 20, 2026

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8 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

Great culture to check out this week – from Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition - all recommended by our team of editors and writers

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH


Ali Honour’s bean and mushroom stew

Jan 16, 2026

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5 min read

Ali Honour’s bean and mushroom stew

The Irish chef is a passionate campaigner for a better food system, and believes pulse-based recipes such as this warming winter dish are part of the solution

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

Jan 2, 2026

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5 min read

Rebecca Ghim’s bibimbap bowl

The chef and kimchi producer shares a vegan Korean dish that offers a colourful antidote to Christmas excess

Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

Dec 5, 2025

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5 min read

Padella’s pappardelle with garlic mushrooms

London restaurateurs Tim Siadatan and Jordan Frieda share an easy but indulgent Italian favourite from their award-winning cookbook

Anna Ansari's funchoza

Nov 21, 2025

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5 min read

Anna Ansari's funchoza

The food writer shares her recipe for funchoza – an addictive Uyghur lamb-and-noodle dish from a cuisine that deserves to be more widely known

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