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The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Mar 10, 2026

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The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press?

Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor Martin Bright

Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war

Mar 10, 2026

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Hooked on dopamine, fuelled by testosterone, powered by AI: this is the broligarchs’ war

Three weeks ago, briefly, the world was focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of women and girls. Now, as conflict rages, the tide of hyper-masculinity has risen again, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr

Mar 10, 2026

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9 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to enjoy this week - from Kim Gordon’s new album to Rachel Weisz’s steamy Netflix fantasy - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Mar 10, 2026

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8 min read

Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers

Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers

Britain’s ailing construction industry should be embracing high-profile figures like builder-turned-MP Hannah Spencer. And why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks architecture writer Phineas Harper

Mar 6, 2026

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7 min read

Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

Stewart Lee: They’re saying Trump has ‘lit the signal fire for Armageddon’. Still, could be worse!

If it’s true that the Iran war will mark ‘Jesus’s return to Earth’, as US forces have been told, at least that would suggest there was some kind of plan

Mar 6, 2026

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Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour

The kitsch live version of the singer’s gut-punch breakup album West End Girl feels, appropriately, like theatre, but somehow lacks a joyful climax, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


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

Sep 30, 2025

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18 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

The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, PM: they’re just behaving like Labour should

Mar 3, 2026

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6 min read

The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, PM: they’re just behaving like Labour should

After a heavy byelection defeat, Starmer only sounded absurd by implying that the winner – popular local councillor Hannah Spencer – was ready to ‘tear the country apart’, writes Sangita Myska

Sangita Myska
Sangita Myska
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Feb 13, 2026

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14 min read

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

Jan 27, 2026

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13 min read

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert

CULTURE


Is pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black?

Mar 6, 2026

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8 min read

Is pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black?

The soul sensation – who started off as a white redhead – is seemingly taking music born of authenticity and community and reducing it to code. What does it mean if the making of music is taken over by machines?, asks Kadish Morris

Kadish Morris
Kadish Morris
The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

Mar 6, 2026

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6 min read

The Recommender: Jeremy Deller

The Turner prize-winning conceptual artist shares his current cultural favourites

‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

Mar 3, 2026

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8 min read

‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter

Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH


Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

The chef and #CookforUkraine campaigner shares a recipe for kobete – a celebratory dish from the Greek diaspora on Ukraine’s southern coast

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

The food writer and Ottolenghi collaborator shares a hearty and flavourful saloonat dajaj from her Gulf homeland

Coconut, basil and broccoli noodle broth by Bosh!

Feb 20, 2026

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5 min read

Coconut, basil and broccoli noodle broth by Bosh!

Bestselling British vegan duo Henry Firth and Ian Theasby share a fragrant, nourishing dish with a spicy peanut topping from their latest collection

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

Feb 6, 2026

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4 min read

Jeffrey Boadi's Ghanaian red red stew

The wellness writer and fitness enthusiast shares a delicious vegan dish that always reminds him of his childhood

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