Oh yes and there was this
27.02.2026 09:32
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Oh yes and there was this
Caerphilly by-election, Oct 2025. Reform lost to the local, highly motivated and caring candidate
Gorton and Denton, Feb 2026. Lost to the local, highly motivated and caring candidate
So clearly the smart move is to carry on stoking division… 🤔
Just can’t believe that wanting to financially punish women who miscarry didn’t swing the vote for him.
Stupid woke voters.
A supreme example of failing upwards
Yes.
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And the ever-excellent @ellenejones.bsky.social on why Wuthering Heights fails to capture the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love
www.thenerve.news/p/film-colum...
Also ICYMI, our investigation into Reform UK’s funding by
@charlienotold.bsky.social
Link here: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-fun...
(Many of the comments in response to Sangita' column on X are worse than Starkey's.
Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain - since last week a "political party" and not merely a pressure group - is going where Reform doesn't dare and will basically give all the racists a home. He's a menace.)
And on a much more serious note this must-read column from @sangitamyska.bsky.social about the ongoing public racism of historian David Starkey (basically, Stewart's classic racist uncle) and Starkey's influence on the hard right.
www.thenerve.news/p/david-star...
and this corker from Stewart Lee on Pimlico Plumbers’ Charlie Mullins
“The Death of Human Civilisation was announced on Tuesday afternoon on LBC radio by Mullins, not a cobra in sight. Perhaps it’s the banal full stop 300,000 years of evolution deserves.”
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Some cracking reads in the Nerve this weekend, including this interview with Ash Sarkar in which she has some fascinating things to say about the state of politics - and why you should very much avoid going down the K-hole, kids
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I can assure you it’s not.
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨
I just signed this - the BBC is not perfect but it must be protected. Just looking at those who most want it to fail tells us all we need to know about how important it is to our democracy…
Please add your name 🙏
38d.gs/cicq
The writer is calling for a ban on this particular site - not a youth social media ban 🙏
Ian and Molly’s friends feature in the film Molly vs the Machines about Molly’s death. It’s incredibly powerful and v smartly illustrates the sinister economic model of the platforms. Out March in cinemas and later on C4. Hard recommend.
youtu.be/YH0bOI1toZM?...
Agree! And such bans get the platforms off the hook in terms of responsibility & here in the UK would defang the Online Safety Act. Ian Russell, dad of Molly Russell who died by suicide caused by depression and negative effects of social media argues this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
Stoked that Lyse is the Nerve’s Recommender this week ❤️💪
Melania so elegantly dispatched by @xanbrooks.bsky.social 👏👏👏
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
This is the language of ICE right here in the UK
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Full read here - Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 Uk state contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @charlienotold.bsky.social and Max Colbert
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
Well this seems to have hit home… Worth taking a moment to appreciate human graphic design.
Contracts data is boring. The names of government agencies are grey. IT language is dull.
Convert it all into a single visual hit? BOOM! Thank you to Lynsey Irvine, the Nerve’s genius creative director. 🙏⚡️
Matt Goodwin of course has a long-standing and deeply emotional connection to Manchester
Prepare for a return to 19th-century Russia levels of absurdism in our culture…
Clip from the brilliant @statuscoupnews.bsky.social on the ground in Minneapolis
Follow them!
Screenshot if go fund me page showing $1.5 million raised from 38,000 people on a target of $50,000
Beautiful statement by Renee Good’s widow. Also that target vs raised ratio is v moving. We have to remember that most people, like Good, are good.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
hugely infectious giggle at the end of this reel….💥
Good background from the Londoner…
www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
