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If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer

Dec 9, 2025

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9 min read

If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer

The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britain’s wildly unpopular former PM. It’s also a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr

The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

Dec 5, 2025

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20 min read

The Nerve's Best Books of 2025

From a moving rumination on class to a gripping novel about desire, our team of writers and editors each recommend a title they’ve loved over the past 12 months – and one they’re hoping to get for Christmas

Dec 9, 2025

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8 min read

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

Dec 9, 2025

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7 min read

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

Great culture to check out this week – from Singin' in the Rain in Manchester to a jaw-dropping new Netflix doc – all recommended by our team of editors and writers

Dec 9, 2025

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9 min read

‘I’m interested in humour!’: How Isobel Waller-Bridge made her new album with Hoovers, shoes and balls

‘I’m interested in humour!’: How Isobel Waller-Bridge made her new album with Hoovers, shoes and balls

The film and classical composer talks to Kate Hutchinson about avant-garde music, ASMR and living with sister Phoebe at the height of Fleabag’s fame

Nov 26, 2025

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2 min read

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POLITICS & INVESTIGATIONS


Politics

Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

Nov 28, 2025

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6 min read

Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes Martin Shipton

Reform UK

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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

Nov 21, 2025

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26 min read

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline

As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexit

Culture

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

Nov 11, 2025

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8 min read

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

Dorian Lynskey
Dorian Lynskey

Tech

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‘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

CULTURE


Culture

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Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'

Dec 2, 2025

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9 min read

Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'

The Sheffield rocker, in rehearsal for his homecoming tour, answers the Nerve Q&A - on songs, socialism, swearing ... and the joy of dogs

The Recommender: Bel Powley

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

The Recommender: Bel Powley

The actor on her latest art and culture discoveries

Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident

The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Ellen E Jones
Ellen E Jones

THE WEEKEND DISH


Yasmin Khan's gheimeh badinjan

Nov 14, 2025

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6 min read

Yasmin Khan's gheimeh badinjan

For the Nerve Weekend Dish, the cook and author shares her recipe for a warming, vegetarian Persian stew with aubergines, split peas and dried limes

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

Nov 7, 2025

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5 min read

Borough Chef's mushroom pie

A comforting, autumnal pie from Beth Adamson, the cook behind the popular social media account @BoroughChef

Poppy Cooks' one-pot Tuscan salmon

Nov 28, 2025

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3 min read

Poppy Cooks' one-pot Tuscan salmon

Michelin-trained chef and TikTokker Poppy O’Toole shares a quick and delicious recipe for salmon

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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