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Sarah Donaldson

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now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review thenerve.news

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey calls Nigel Farage "Liz Truss with a bitcoin account"
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"I hope to live to 100," Gloria says. "There is so much to do." Exemplary, excellent 2011 interview with Gloria Steinem by the late Rachel Cooke... www.theguardian.com/books/2011/n...
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Gloria Steinem: 'I think we need to get much angrier'
Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women's rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century. She tells Rachel Cooke about her opposition to cosmetic surgery and her ambivale...
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Extraordinary.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Started the day dismayed at my industry (10-hours-ago tweet below) Finishing it genuinely inspired after reading this. Bravo @lisabachelor.bsky.social and team and all the young people involved in this project 🙌 www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
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‘We were able to live their experiences with them’: the ripple effects of our series about life in coastal towns
A year-long project exploring the lives of young people in coastal areas required a great deal of groundwork to give them a genuine voice and ensure they were properly heard. Their stories captured th...
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am genuinely ASTONISHED at the number of mainstream ‘normal’ journos fawning about Rod Liddle. Just cos someone is nice to YOU or can string a decent sentence together doesn’t excuse their revolting / irresponsible behaviour. Such a terrible look. This is good tho
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Aw look at his wee face when he’s told you can make good money out of crypto (Full clip below)
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One of my most popular tweets.
The tweet from 2015 says “Very sad to hear about Nigel Farage. Nothing's happened to him, I'm just sad to hear about him.”
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Feel weirdly proud of the humanities here…
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/06/2026
🏝️😎 The Nerve’s Summer Books 2026 🌞📚 From a sweeping Korean family saga to a 'mordantly funny' memoir about fame, our team of writers and editors each recommend a perfect read for your summer getaway - and one they’ll be taking on holiday www.thenerve.news/p/best-summe...
Text card with the words “Best summer books 2026” with a graphic of a sunset and four book covers
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
FIFA showing no respect for Scotland fans… 🤔
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.
“A grieving family have asked us not to respond in the way that the leader of Reform has responded. They've asked us not to. They have lost their son in the most appalling circumstance. They make a simple plea of us as human beings to please not exploit that. That is their plea to us. 
“We all need to reflect on those words of Henry's father. My response, and the response of others to be fair, has been focused on the lessons to be learned so we can deliver justice. “His response has been to appeal for rage – rage. That's his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen.
“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don't is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/05/2026
“It is time for a collective awakening.” Gisèle Pelicot on the responsibility of all tech platforms to shut down websites and chatrooms that enable the sexual abuse and rape of women. They are “a tool of violence, a tool of masculine domination”. Interview by the Nerve’s @luciaoc.bsky.social
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tony Blair’s essay VS the Pope’s encyclical Blair essay: number 1 bit of advice, do not regulate AI (in which I have £millions invested) Pope essay: we need the most rigorous constraints on AI 1/
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Delighted to read this. Scurrilous slapp libel case against @millmedia.bsky.social, in which the subject of their investigation also sued reporter @coramazov.bsky.social and editor @joshih.bsky.social personally, thrown out by judge. But the case has cost Mill M £40k-unlikely to be recuperated🤯
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
excellent
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...
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How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill
Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Not sure exactly what these two approaches to Palantir reporting today by the new Observer - under Tortoise media - & the Nerve, set up by five former Obs journalists (me included) tells us, but I feel like it’s definitely… something… 😂 Oh and also Obs launched v nice-looking new mag. 👏 that team
Screenshot of Observer article with headline ‘Palantir swaps surveilling for tailoring with launch of tech bro jacket’ Screenshot of Nerve article with headline ‘The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel’s surveillance had more than 30 senior UK state officials
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦 @smikooman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Bruce Springsteen is making me a fan... Opening his concert in Los Angeles yesterday, worth the wait to see the transition to the opening song 90 seconds in. ✌️❤️🇺🇸 #Resist
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This week’s Nerve hotlist. Some gems here Always 100% tested. Think of us as Which? mag for arts and culcha
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 25/03/2026
Lots of sensible recommendations in this IMO. But many of them not new - so it is to see if the government will actually enact these, especially the parts which Rycroft suggests should be carried out through the Representation of the People Bill.
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The Rycroft Review: Report of the independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics
Report of the independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 22/03/2026
The story of 'woke' FOr years. mainstream conservatives and even centrists rounded on progressive culture as though it were a threat to society. Now they see where the real threat lay Writer and critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social examines the meaning of one of the defining terms of our age.
GRAPHIC showing Nerve logo and the letters W O K and E with pics of Farage, Trump, Lee Anderson and Piers Morgan. CAPTION: In a world of war, abuse and rising fascism, ‘woke’ was never the enemy, writes Dorian Lynskey
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Really sad to read this. Love and solidarity to all my former colleagues and anyone affected on the og Tortoise team 🙏
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/03/2026
NEW "I wouldn't trust the Americans one inch not to escalate" In an exclusive interview with the Nerve, former senior Nato commander and Iraq veteran General Sir Richard Shirreff gives his in-depth analysis on Trump's "war of choice and hubris" in the Middle East. 1/9🧵
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
While this Labour government has had plenty of disappointing moments, this really is huge. Campaigners and experts have always told me this is the quickest and most effective way to immediately reduce child poverty. It took too long to get here but this is big.
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Two-child limit scrapped as historic Bill to lift 450,000 children out of poverty becomes law
Historic legislation to end the two-child limit has become law, putting 450,000 children on a pathway out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Extraordinary development in this cynical case against local journalism outlet @londonermag.bsky.social The claimant didn’t turn up and sent a crap sick note. Total waste of public resources and court time and has cost the publisher £20k already
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Some community therapy from the Nerve (From our peerless cultural advice columnist Philippa Perry ❤️)
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
F*cking hell www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Oh yes and there was this
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Caerphilly by-election, Oct 2025. Reform lost to the local, highly motivated and caring candidate Gorton and Denton, Feb 2026. Lost to the local, highly motivated and caring candidate So clearly the smart move is to carry on stoking division… 🤔
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Just can’t believe that wanting to financially punish women who miscarry didn’t swing the vote for him. Stupid woke voters.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Some cracking reads in the Nerve this weekend, including this interview with Ash Sarkar in which she has some fascinating things to say about the state of politics - and why you should very much avoid going down the K-hole, kids (🧵)
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 I just signed this - the BBC is not perfect but it must be protected. Just looking at those who most want it to fail tells us all we need to know about how important it is to our democracy… Please add your name 🙏 38d.gs/cicq
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Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Stoked that Lyse is the Nerve’s Recommender this week ❤️💪
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Melania so elegantly dispatched by @xanbrooks.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is the language of ICE right here in the UK
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Well this seems to have hit home… Worth taking a moment to appreciate human graphic design. Contracts data is boring. The names of government agencies are grey. IT language is dull. Convert it all into a single visual hit? BOOM! Thank you to Lynsey Irvine, the Nerve’s genius creative director. 🙏⚡️
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Matt Goodwin of course has a long-standing and deeply emotional connection to Manchester
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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NEW "Minneapolis is the model" Historian Robert Kagan says Insurrection Act will be invoked
YouTube video by The Nerve
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Prepare for a return to 19th-century Russia levels of absurdism in our culture… Clip from the brilliant @statuscoupnews.bsky.social on the ground in Minneapolis Follow them!
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Beautiful statement by Renee Good’s widow. Also that target vs raised ratio is v moving. We have to remember that most people, like Good, are good. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Screenshot if go fund me page showing $1.5 million raised from 38,000 people on a target of $50,000
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
hugely infectious giggle at the end of this reel….💥
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
SAVE ROWAN’S FINSBURY PARK (iykyk) An old development proposal is back for 190 homes, possibly a tower at the site … locals can contribute their thoughts by Dec 19 (link in next post). Also there is a petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Rowans Tenpin Bowl
Rowans, a beloved North London institution, is under threat. Haringey Council is reviewing new plans that could see the iconic bowling alley bulldozed and replaced with up to 190 flats. The Council do...
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Why artists are essential
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Quite a week last week…. 😅Thanks for all the great feedback 🙏
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/11/2025
The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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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 Brexi...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/11/2025
Review of the week: Wet Leg live @royalalberthall.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ They may have started off as self-deprecating jokers, but this pulsating live show is final proof that the Isle of Wight rockers are now something much bigger, writes @katehutchinson.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/wet-leg-to...
Review of the week: Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall. Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg onstage at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 November. Photo: Matthew Baker/Getty Images
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