# The Nerve

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## Posts
- [Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?](https://www.thenerve.news/p/christopher-harborne-investigation-nigel-farage-2019-election-deal-rupert-lowe-boris-johnson-donor): Part two of the Nerve’s investigation into Christopher Harborne’s influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, leaving a wound on the far right still raw today. By Carole Cadwalladr and Lucia Osborne-Crowley
- [Stewart Lee: Ireland is an island of fable and magic. It’s just a shame about the pogrom](https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-ireland-belfast-attack-pogrom-farage-tommy-robinson): On tour through glorious Irish towns, pubs and clubs, it was almost - but not quite - possible to tune out the race riots being stoked up in the North
- [Review of the Week: Disclosure Day](https://www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-the-week-film-disclosure-spielberg-ellen-e-jones-emily-blunt): A Spielberg alien movie is not to be missed, writes Ellen E Jones – especially when the extraterrestrials might offer an alternative to our fraught political reality
- [‘Literature is about digging, not putting on a show’: author Édouard Louis on writing as an act of working-class defiance  ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/edouard-louis-interview-novelist-france-working-class-collapse-end-of-eddy): The French novelist’s unsparing autofiction about his poor and violent childhood is designed to challenge a leftwing establishment that is losing touch with those it represents, he tells Lucia Osborne-Crowley 
- [Helen Graham’s leek, miso and mango chutney skewers](https://www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-dish-helen-graham-centrepiece-leek-miso-mango-chutney-skewers-bubala): The London-born chef shares a fresh, vegan and barbecue-ready dish from her debut cookbook
- [The Recommender: Olivia Laing](https://www.thenerve.news/p/the-recommender-olivia-laing-lonely-city-silver-book-venice-ss-daley): The bestselling writer and novelist shares their current cultural favourites
- [At last, the fool’s bargain that the media struck with AI may be over ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/branko-brkic-column-sulzberger-nyt-keynote-world-news-media-congress-ai-theft): In a thunderous speech last week, the boss of the New York Times sounded a rallying call to news organisations to rise up against the theft of their work by Big Tech – and not before time, writes Branko Brkic
- [Natasha Walter: if a far-right government was treating protesters like Labour is, there would be outrage ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-walter-column-protest-palestine-action-sentencing-terrorist-connection-elbit): Activists have been detained for months without trial and declared terrorists. On Friday, four will be sentenced under egregious circumstances. We should be more alarmed that Palestine and climate campaigners are being treated like this in a social democracy, writes the author and columnist 
- [Sangita Myska: Henry Nowak’s father asked for peace. In response, Nigel Farage produced a conveyor belt of lies ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-myska-column-henry-nowak-murder-nigel-farage-two-tier-police-lies): The horror of the teenager’s murder, and the police failings surrounding it, have been shamelessly exploited by the far right’s disinformation machine whose claims, in turn, have been legitimised by the media
- [The Nerve Hotlist  ](https://www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-culture-recommendations-alice-steve-disney-jem-calder-war-horse): The best culture to check out this week – from Nicola Walker in a pin-sharp new comedy to the triumphant return of War Horse – all seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
- [Stewart Lee: Quick - dangerous ideologies are storming the beaches. Has anyone reserved a sun-lounger?](https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-column-pete-hegseth-normandy-beaches-vance-nowak-lammy): At a Normandy D-Day commemoration, Pete Hegseth, the American Secretary of War, noted that beaches were stormed in 1944 and are being stormed by ideologies now. The two events share precisely one feature, and that is sand
- [‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak](https://www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cadwalladr-sarah-wynn-williams-tim-wu-hay-festival-careless-people-gagging): The Nerve’s Carole Cadwalladr was all set to talk to Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the explosive memoir Careless People, at the Hay festival when Meta’s lawyers intervened ... and turned the event into ‘absurdist theatre’
- [‘What’s happening is horrifying’: the rebel film-maker challenging AI’s march into Hollywood](https://www.thenerve.news/p/valerie-veatch-interview-ghost-in-the-machine-documentary-ai-sundance-tech-bros): While pro-Silicon Valley documentaries got major distribution deals, Valerie Veatch had to struggle to get her film, about Big Tech’s dark past and future, into the world. She talked to Charlotte O’Sullivan about what some attendees called ‘the scariest movie playing at Sundance’ 
- [James McAvoy: 'I'm always going to try and find the laughs'](https://www.thenerve.news/p/james-mcavoy-interview-actor-directing-debut-california-schemin-scotland): The Scottish Hollywood actor – and now first-time director – answers the Nerve Q&A on fame, indie film-making and snogging an unexpected co-star. Interview by Hanna Flint
- [Review of the week: Cry Baby by Vince Staples](https://www.thenerve.news/p/review-cry-baby-album-rapper-vince-staples-trump-drake-kendrick): Over a foreboding rock soundtrack, the California rapper delivers hard-edged, compelling social commentary on Trump, violence, Black stereotypes and more, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson