🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from a moving coming of age story set in Luton to Nick Hakim’s ghostly new album 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

The problem is that it makes our jobs harder. We have to use it because they track our token usage. We don't use it for the complicated tasks that take significant knowledge or skill because AI makes that harder and take longer. We use it to do trivial stuff. Companies are going to lose money.

“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has approved the controversial data centre on behalf of Angela Rayner, overruling Tower Hamlets Council and local opposition. Brick Lane local residents react:

England is predicted to reach water shortages of 5bn litres a day by 2055. Data centres are becoming one of the most water-intensive forms of infrastructure Why is the government letting the AI industry keep its consumption private, asks @adelewalton.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walt...

Who are the young consultants importing MAGA to the UK? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social reports

🗞️ @democracynow.org’s Amy Goodman, the subject of new documentary @stealthisstory.bsky.social @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about surviving a massacre, Trump, and the current threats to the media www.thenerve.news/p/amy-goodma...

NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Jokes’ like the one Zack Polanski shared on social media only help Farage deflect scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has approved the controversial data centre on behalf of Angela Rayner, overruling Tower Hamlets Council and local opposition. Brick Lane local residents react:

The Recommender: Courttia Newland The award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter, whose new book The Art of Opposition is out now @faberbooks.bsky.social, shares his cultural highlights www.thenerve.news/p/recommende...

Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich: source reveals the convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked for the now-sanctioned oligarch Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...

Review of the Week: Tao of Glass at Soho Place ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @openspacer.bsky.social's passion-project tribute to composer @philipglass.bsky.social is not for everyone, but its audacity and originality shine through, writes Nerve theatre critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-the...

Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.

The Nerve weekend dish: Ella Risbridger’s Herby Mango Salad 🌿🥭🦐🥗🌶️ The author of foodie bestseller The Kitchen Book @4thestatebooks.bsky.social shares an ultra-fresh, summery, no-cook lunch www.thenerve.news/p/the-weeken...

“If you’re selling dehumanisation, those who are buying will feel no empathy for you’”: @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social’s @dfdubz.bsky.social on how the manosphere’s favourite misogynist – currently languishing in prison – has poisoned male discourse around women www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-fr...

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from a female-powered new crime drama to some of the greats of US photography @dulwichgallery.bsky.social 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...

‘I feel very hashtag blessed. Hashtag live, laugh, love. Just not in 40-plus degrees, please’: ahead of a new solo exhibition, @joelycett talks to @michaelhogan100 about parenting, politics and #CelebrityTraitors www.thenerve.news/p/joe-lycett...

4,000 shows, one month: critic and dedicated festivalgoer @fergusmorgan.bsky.social offers a guide to the 10 best things to see at the Edinburgh Festival @edfringe.bsky.social this summer www.thenerve.news/p/edinburgh-...

NEW Stewart Lee column I wanted a King of the North. Not a King of the North Sea Is Andy ‘Burn Them!’ Burnham really going to approve more oil drilling? This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Review of the Week: Charli xcx - Music, Fashion, Film The follow-up album to 2024’s zeitgeist-defining Brat is short, sharp, rocky – but also feels like it’s grasping for something that stays out of reach, writes Nerve music critic @katehutchinson.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-cha...

“Well we’ve had so many prime ministers over the last ten years why not give the bin a go?” @joelycett.bsky.social caught up with @michaelhogan100.bsky.social for The Nerve and talked all things parenthood, art therapy and Count Binface…

The Nerve weekend dish: Christina Soteriou’s spicy mushroom skewers with peanut lime sauce 🌱🌶️🍄‍🟫🍢🥜🍋‍🟩 The vegan chef shares a zingy dish that works both as a healthy midweek meal and a dinner-party treat www.thenerve.news/p/the-weeken...

Who are the young consultants importing MAGA to the UK? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social reports

The British edition of CPAC, the US (ultra)-Conservative Political Action Conference, took place in London last week. @mccoolingtons.bsky.social reports on how its young organisers are part of a web of culture-war connections – from the US Christian right to Viktor Orbán's influence network

The Online Safety Act has used all its powers and can do no more against a nihilistic pro-suicide website responsible for 164 UK deaths. This felt like a slap in the face to bereaved families like mine, writes @adelewalton.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walt...

Britain’s media barons don’t like a loser: how Farage managed to turn the rightwing press against him This week’s column by @sangitamyska.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...

🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from Nia Archives’s genre-blending second album to a riveting King Lear in Pitlochry 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

“When I hear people in the west preaching fatalism from our more comfortable position, I feel it is a terrible betrayal of those women who are desperately trying still to heal and rebuild our world” @natashawalter.bsky.social on not giving in to climate fatalism www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...

“Something fundamental has changed. Nigel Farage for the first time is looking vulnerable” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her latest deep dive into George Cottrell