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🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from Salman Toor’s richly imagined queer worlds to AK Blakemore’s dazzling novel of a 19th-century English revolt 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

The Nerve Hotlist: the best culture to see and enjoy this week. Bright yellow background. Picture in the middle: The Bar on East 13th Street. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery

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“Mark has been allowed to continue in the form he was in when he was 20, for his entire adult life, and the movie depicts how sad this is” Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Zuckerberg, tech and The Social Reckoning www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...

‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen (pictured in a green dress, in the middle of a black and white patterned floor, staring at the camera with her arms crossed) on Zuckerberg and The Social Reckoning

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“The audience saved my life. Because he wasn’t planning to stop” Salman Rushdie and his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths talk to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social about his near-fatal knife attack, history and hope

Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths – pictured wearing dark suits, embracing against a burgundy backdrop – on surviving assassination. Photograph by Pål Hansen

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Good morning. Just how much have successive UK governments spent - or is the current one due to spend - with Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 🧵⤵️

Graphic showing Palantir founder Peter Thiel and totals of money spent since 2014 – or due to be spent – by UK government departments and agencies. Design: Lynsey Irvine

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This week’s Stewart Lee column “The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?” Stewart Lee on the Fairford Five www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: Five Go Mad in Fairford is the worst Enid Blyton yet

The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?

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Stewart Lee: Five Go Mad in Fairford is the worst Enid Blyton yet

The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?

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Good morning. Just how much have successive UK governments spent - or is the current one due to spend - with Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 🧵⤵️

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White text out of black: As a new documentary remembers the three decade fatawa against the novelist that led to his near-fatal knife attack in 2022, he and his wife discuss hope, history and how his life was saved by the courage of strangers. By Dorian Lynskey

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The Recommender: Kiell Smith-Bynoe The star of #BBCGhosts, #StathLetsFlats and #WickerMovie shares his favourite recent cultural experiences

The recommender: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian, pictured in orange sunglasses, with a hand on his chest, and a houndstooth patterned jacket

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Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn

Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert...

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2/ How the £1bn UK state contracts with Peter Thiel’s firm since 2014 that the Nerve has identified break down across departments and agencies

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REVEALED Britain’s contracts with Palantir hit £1bn The government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m on contracts with Palantir Technologies, the Nerve’s Max Colbert - @mc00.bsky.social - can reveal 🧵

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Review of the Week: The Standard Of Living, Theatre Royal Haymarket ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ James Graham’s ambitious play about John Maynard Keynes is an energetic, human and appropriate tribute to a man who believed in the pursuit of ‘a good life’, writes @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

Review of the Week: Play - The Standard Of Living. Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1, until 12 Dec. 4 stars. Quote: “James Graham’s delightful new play about economist John Maynard Keynes”. Image: Luke Cinque White and Rory Kinnear reclining and smoking in bed against a purple-blue backdrop

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The Nerve weekend dish: Tim Anderson’s Curry Ramen 🍜 The chef, author and Japanese food enthusiast shares a classic comfort food recipe from his new cookbook www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...

The Nerve Weekend Dish: Tim Anderson’s Curry Ramen, pictured in two bowls, with a patterned tablecloth and chopsticks

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The Fairford Five sound like the heroes of an Enid Blyton novel about military sabotage, foreign influence, and lashings of ginger beer This week’s column by Stewart Lee

The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. Stewart Lee on the bizarre Fairford Five saga. Illustrated sign reading: Fairford: a good place to be welcome, with silhouettes of church spires, cyclists, dog walkers, swans and warplanes

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Palantir protesters didn’t expect to see a counter-protest yesterday: “This is not the software that the NHS needed,” one protester said, "it's the contract they wanted and got after years of lobbying." 📩 Sign up to our free newsletter to receive this weekend’s latest investigation into Palantir.

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"with far-right actors like Daniel Thomas ... and Dan Wootton calling Piddington the ground zero of the coming civil war" We should be in no doubt that we are back in the #1930s and face a nasty, brutal future if our politicians do not push back and stamp on this. They are not. It is disturbing.

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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who is brave here, a lone woman speaking out against xenophobia or the gangs of black clad men in masks, you decide.

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“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...

Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital. Red and yellow illustration of an under-construction Equinix data centre in Slough, England

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On this day of action against Palantir, here’s a handy thread of the Nerve’s ongoing Palantir investigation. From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way… 👇👇👇

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“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

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The Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first year

Hooray it’s the Nerve’s first birthday today! And we’re also celebrating being financially sustainable 🥳 Thanks to @pressgazette.co.uk for this fab piece on our first year + future plans. And huge thanks to our members, supporters + team for getting us here 🙏💪❤️ pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...

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🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from Austen remixed to photographer Sunil Gupta's loving portraits of queer life 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

The Nerve Hotlist: the best culture to see and enjoy this week. Bright yellow background. Picture in the middle: Daisy Edgar-Jones (Elinor Dashwood) and George MacKay (Edward Ferrars) walking through a field in Sense and Sensibility

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