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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026

NEW Stewart Lee column The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say - seems beyond us www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns': Stewart Lee on the collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain. Stylised image of a RNLI ferry

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“I saw great violence and great courage, within seconds of each other” Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, the latest doc by @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social, revisits the 2022 attack and extraordinary recovery. In selected cinemas Friday

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

“What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away” Read the full Q&A between author Omar El Akkad and Bafta-winning journalist Ramita Navai here www.thenerve.news/p/omar-el-ak...

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026

“I can’t let this kind of rhetoric dominate the whole conversation. There has to be a way of talking about this issue without denying people’s humanity” @natashawalter.bsky.social meets Rachel Marsh, who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm, pictured being interviewed for Newsnight

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stewart Lee has always been brilliant but his Nerve column really hits new heights. This should be required reading in schools - alongside ‘A Modest Proposal’. Although I guess, for balance, the poor teachers would have to find an equally good satire of the woke obsession with keeping people alive.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2026

“I derive an immense sense of hope from the idea that obliviousness is being demolished all around us”: author and journalist Omar El Akkad talks to documentary maker Ramita Navai about Gaza, conflict, and the wilful ignorance of western liberals who “just look away”

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2026

‘Trump despises the arts and science. He despises anything except money’: the pioneering artist Laurie Anderson talks to @juderogers.bsky.social about Trump’s threat to culture, how she finds inspiration – and her forthcoming first-ever show in Wales @wmccmc.bsky.social 1 of 2

Laurie Anderson, photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans in a doorway, in a grey suit and glasses, with one arm crossed behind the other with the text. ‘Trump despises the arts and science. He despises anything except money’

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2026

Last few tickets available for the Nerve live @ Vision Festival Kings Cross tmro Guest just added: @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social @dfdubz.bsky.social 🔥 + actor/comedian Kiell Smith-Bynoe; @sangitamyska.bsky.social , @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & more Ticket deets👇🧵

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2026

The Recommender: Clint Dyer The award-winning playwright, actor and director, whose latest production The Story is @nationaltheatre.org.uk, shares his cultural highlights www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...

The recommender: Clint Dyer, playwright, actor and director, pictured on a red carpet, wearing an elegant dark suit with white and red dots along the bottom of the jacket, in front of pink and red flowers and foliage

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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social I hope you understand that your new job reframes all your past efforts working for an ethical common good as performative ladder climbing.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 25/09/2026

Review of the Week: Hope, dir. Na Hong-jin A hit at Cannes and reportedly the most expensive Korean film of all time, Na Hong-Jin’s new high-energy creature feature may be slightly unstructured but it’s a wild ride, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-hop...

Review of the Week: Film: Hope, dir. Na Hong-jin, in cinemas now. Pictured: Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and oﬃcer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) in Hope

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 25/09/2026

The Nerve weekend dish: Jeremy Lee’s celery and lemon risotto 🌱🍋🍚 The acclaimed Quo Vadis restaurateur shares a fresh seasonal recipe celebrating a perennially overlooked vegetable www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Jeremy Lee’s celery and lemon risotto. Chef Jeremy Lee photographed at his restaurant Quo Vadis, wearing a white shirt and striped apron, on a green velvet banquette, with a black and white painting above him, with some white flowers and glasses in front of him

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇

A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/09/2026

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from Sharon Horgan's hilarious new comedy to Thelma & Louise: the musical 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

The Nerve Hotlist: the best culture to see and enjoy this week. Bright yellow background. Picture in the middle: Sharon Horgan in Youth, doing the ironing and getting ready, with clips in her hair, looks at her smartphone in alarm; in the background, there is a large painting of a reclining nude woman

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

London: a city of extremes with some of the most expensive properties in the world, while one in five Londoners live in poverty. But what do Londoners think of extreme wealth and how it affects their lives?

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/09/2026

“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...

Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform. Stylised image of men in black clothing and balaclavas, with a Union Jack in the background and a rubber dinghy

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24/09/2026

‘Family annihilation’, where a spouse kills their partner and offspring, is an overwhelmingly male phenomenon. But masculine violence is too common to be big news, writes @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social’s @dfdubz.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-fr...

"When a woman kills, it’s a gendered issue" Deborah Frances-White on the Lindsay Clancy trial, pictured in a stylised pink and orange image

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/09/2026

The real reason AI bosses want a pause: They aren’t afraid of superintelligence, they are afraid of competition, writes Nerve tech columnist @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition. By Cory Doctorow. Image of OpenAI, Meta and Google logos.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/09/2026

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from Sharon Horgan's hilarious new comedy to Thelma & Louise: the musical 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/09/2026

“The real test moment will be when Russia, accidentally on purpose, kills EU civilians”: @lukeharding1968.bsky.social speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Putin, Trump, Ukraine and war www.thenerve.news/p/russia-war...

‘The UK has been promoted to Russia’s main opponent’: Luke Harding on the possibility of a new war in Europe. Image of Donald Trump greeting Vladimir Putin at the US air base in Alaska, August 2025

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

Membership also includes booking access to our regular events around the country www.thenerve.news/members Thanks for reading. (@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social are you listening? 🤔) We’ll leave you with a graphic by our brilliant creative director Lynsey Irvine which neatly sums up the above! ///

Graphic showing Peter Thiel’s head with wiggly arrows coming off it pointing to heads of people in his hubs of influence including Silicon Valley (Alex Karp, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk), Washington DC (JD Vance, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon), and the UK (Louise Mosley, Nigel Farage, James Orr, Peter Mandelson)

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

There was a time when Steven Pinker was the media's favourite scientist. Then came the debunking of his field of study, a flirtation with “race science”, and links to Epstein Journalist and cultural critic @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social dissects what went wrong 🔗👇

From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: How Steven Pinker (pictured in a stylised green photograph) lost his way

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 22/09/2026

We finally have a Pitch Us page! Coming to LinkedIn soon, but Bluesky you heard it first... 🙏 www.thenerve.news/pitch-us

graphic of words "Pitch Us" in Nerve colours of cyan and neon pink

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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worse betrayal than Nick Clegg

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/09/2026

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/09/2026

‘We won’t have to run cables across people’s laps any more’: how @theyardtheatre.bsky.social became London’s coolest theatre By @fergusmorgan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/yard-theat...

‘We don’t want just bums on seats’: how The Yard became London’s coolest theatre. Illustration of a theatre being built among warehouses and building sites, against a yellow / acid green background

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

The Nerve Live Next Sunday 27 September we'll bring the Nerve to life with an exciting morning of events. Tickets are £12/ £3 for members. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nerve-... Membership here: thenerve.news/membership

The Nerve Live at the Vision Festival.
Independent Journalism Unleashed!
Sunday 27 September
Vision Hall, London
10.30-2pm
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Danny Tommo’ and his men of fighting age seek their Passport to Piddington www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

"Piddington is about to be invaded by the very worst Britons this country has to offer
Stewart Lee on the hamlet that voted to secede from the UK"

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/09/2026

“These men are not only careless people, but cruel people. They are destroying communities and ecosystems”: @natashawalter.bsky.social on @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social’s new book, and why we need to work together to oppose apocalyptic oligarchs www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...

Natasha Walter, pictured in a stylised blue and pink image: The end-times oligarchs are weary of Earth. But we should stand and fight for our home.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/09/2026

New guest added! We are celebrating our first birthday next Sunday - 27 Sep - as part of the inaugural Kings Cross Vision Festival, with a morning of live journalism. Delighted to announce that actor Kiell Smith Bynoe will join us for a special live edition of our weekly slot, the Recommender 1/

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Karen Monroy @karenmonroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Incase you missed it.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The best example I’ve seen of a brilliant creative team elevating a flawed play

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/09/2026

The Recommender: Bob Stanley AKA @rockingbob.bsky.social The Saint Etienne @bobpetesarah.bsky.social musician, writer and pop historian – whose new book The Shadows is published next week @newmodernbooks.bsky.social – shares his latest cultural discoveries www.thenerve.news/p/recommende...

The recommender: Bob Stanley, author and musician, pictured in a black and white photo, seated next to a formica table, wearing a grey trench coat

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/09/2026

Review of the Week: Golden Boy @almeida.co.uk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A dazzling production, and Josh O’Connor’s star turn as a boxer grappling his way to the top, drag what could have been a faded period piece to the brink of greatness, writes Nerve theatre critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social 🔗 👇

Text card saying: Review of the Week: Play - Golden Boy @ Almeida theatre, London, 4 stars with a quote saying "With his slugger's physique and poet's eyes, Josh O'Connor is perfectly cast" and a photograph of Josh O’Connor with boxing gloves on in a room with grey walls.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18/09/2026

The Nerve weekend dish: Poppy O’Toole’s smash burger tacos 💥🍔🌮 The social media star cook AKA Poppy Cooks shares a fast-food-inspired mash-up that’s perfect to put together in a student kitchen www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...

The Nerve weekend dish: Poppy O’Toole’s smash burger tacos, pictured being served with red onions

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/09/2026

“In fact, it was the Musk Family Foundation that funded that trip” Matt Shea talks to @luciaoc.bsky.social about Tommy Robinson’s recent trip to Russia after a year-long investigation into Robinson for his new Channel 4 documentary, Tommy Robinson: Where’s The Money Gone?

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 16/09/2026

Mega-donors, Nigel’s £5m gift, the Channel 4 sting... Farage’s faithful couldn’t care less about his scandals. By @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...

John Sweeney: Dressed in Crusader chainmail and Reform footy kits, Farage’s faithful couldn’t care less about his scandals. Photograph: a Reform member dressed as ‘King Richard’, with chainmail, a crown and a red cape, holding a disposable coffee cup

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 16/09/2026

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from a Tilda Swinton tour de force @royalcourt.bsky.social to the new album by jazz stars @ezracollective.bsky.social 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/09/2026

We have news! The Nerve is about to celebrate its first anniversary. To celebrate, we are hosting a live takeover at the inaugural Kings Cross Vision Festival, Sunday 27 Sep Special guest Cody Dahler! plus: @sangitamyska.bsky.social @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & more

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/09/2026

“You come away from a traumatic scene and you discuss it. You cry together. Of course, that’s not for broadcasts” A Q&A with Lyse Doucet by Ursula Kenny www.thenerve.news/p/lyse-douce...

The Nerve Q&A: Lyse Doucet, pictured in a red top overlooking some greenery and mountains: ‘The fear of not being a journalist was bigger than the fear of what was around me’

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

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