Why artists are essential

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Quite a week last week…. 😅Thanks for all the great feedback 🙏

The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

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...

45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform. 71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform. And immigration has fallen 50% in a year. What possible reason is there for this mess?

Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

The Obs has done lovely job collecting tributes to Rachel Cooke - her character jumps off the page. & an edit of some of her best writing including her famous recipe for parmesan biscuits. How nice if people would make these at Xmas and remember her with pleasure. The perfect Rachel tribute! links ⬇️

Wonderful tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social Rachel was always a wonderful colleague and over the past 14 months, during we experienced a horrendous period at the Guardian together, she became a cherished friend…. /cont. 🧵 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Weirdly relaxing reel…

‘have to say, I'm worried about your country. I've really developed a relationship with it, and it's so worrying to see the support for someone with absolutely no qualifications, like Farage, when he's absolutely, completely, utterly useless.’ Danish actor and 💯 dude Claes Bang talks to the Nerve…

Great piece for the Nerve on the BBC sabotage (and the dire failure of the institution to stand up for itself). Also - acc to Guardian - the production co that made the Trump Panorama, is working on a film about Nigel Farage. So I guess that’s canned now? 🤷‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

Almost most worrying is that if this recent @prospectmagazine.co.uk podcast is anything to do back, culture secretary Lisa Nandy doesn’t understand broadcasting impartiality rules either www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Sometimes our culture recommenders are so passionate its impossible to resist. Subscribed and ordered! 📚🛒 🙏 thanks to the wonderful (and genius composer) @nicomuhly.bsky.social for a great list (link below)

Big news for arts education. After 16 month review, government has pledged to reverse the secondary status that - partly due to EBacc - arts subjects have come to occupy in the national curriculum (in England), V helpful thread from @campaignforthearts.org below

“quite laid back, not too faffy or complicated” she says. This is my kind of recipe….

The prince, the paedophile and the walk in the park: why did Andrew meet Epstein that day in New York? The former prince has one big question to answer, writes @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/windsor-pr...

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Such a bloody pity he can never run for prez

Love this. The power of language

My pick for our culture hotlist this week is James Bleumel’s classy and riveting doc series Once Upon a Time in Space. Ep 2 = space bromance on a rusty falling apart space submarine (Mir space station) 🚀🧑‍🚀👨‍🚀 (on @bbciplayer.bsky.social ) ⬇️

This is so shocking and depressing. Teen Vogue’s political coverage on the US has been so inspiring / important. This seems to have come out of nowhere? (Or have i missed something?)

Wonderful, warm hour today listening to Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem) chat with Dolly Alderton @southbankcentre.bsky.social about music industry / patriarchy / being oracle-philosopher to a nation of women / deffo being game for the next Celebrity Traitors-as long as it’s with Julie Hesmondhalgh

Particularly like this burn 🎉 Full vid here / interview from 6:55 m.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...

What’s missing in much of the pundit analysis of Caerphilly byelection is due credit to Plaid Cymru’s candidate Lindsay Whittle. The Nerve’s intrepid @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social filmed a brilliant interview with Whittle on polling day (Reform UK’s Llyr Powell was nowhere to be found) 🧵

You will all be completely unsurprised to hear that Vorders was amazing. Thank you for the chat, you legend. 🙏 and thank you for coming on board as a contributing editor to @thenerve.news

So it seems the Nerve is a goer 🥵🎉 Thank you so much to the 10,000 who have joined us so far Let’s build something better 💪 Sign up at thenerve.news/membership Thread ⬇️

Hello @cookdandbombd.bsky.social Stewart Lee news 🎉

Was a good day at Nerve towers* when we landed this Unsurprisingly, Nicole has impeccable taste 🙏 (*sitting at our desks in our bedrooms/ box rooms etc. We don’t actually have an office as yet 😬)

We’ve been planning this for months. Can’t believe launch day is here. Sick with (N)nerves!