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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
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Interview with the Bard of Salford aka the great John Cooper Clarke.
“The defining nature of art is its uselessness. As soon as it becomes useful, it's something else”
@johncooperclarke.bsky.social Q&A by Ursula Kenny
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Review of the Week: The 90s: Art and Fashion @tate.bsky.social
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We were due a rigorous cultural appraisal of an increasingly mythologised decade. Sadly, this jarring clash of modern masterpieces and glossy-mag photoshoots is not it, writes Nerve art critic @benlukeart.bsky.social
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The Nerve weekend dish: Ali Stoner’s Cullen skink bake
The cook, influencer and former Masterchef Australia contestant shares a new twist on an old Scottish favourite from her debut recipe book
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“Fraternities are where young men’s values are formed and minds are shaped”
@theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social’s @dfdubz.bsky.social on the Cornell Seven and how frat-house culture spreads
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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...
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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
“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
Good morning. Just how much have successive UK governments spent - or is the current one due to spend - with Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 🧵⤵️
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
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
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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“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
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