Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
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Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
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After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
I also write about the Epstein files. Because it’s the another eg of US press lacking guts or clarity or leadership to say it like it is. It’s the dog didn’t bark. And if it isn’t barking now..what happens when/if Trump attempts to throw the mid terms?
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I also write about the Epstein files. Because it’s the another eg of US press lacking guts or clarity or leadership to say it like it is. It’s the dog didn’t bark. And if it isn’t barking now..what happens when/if Trump attempts to throw the mid terms?
NEW: ‘It’s a coup’.
One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.
NB: They’re still not.
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One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.
NB: They’re still not.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The US coup: one year on
I re-publish my piece from a year ago. It's not yet over. But it's nearly there...
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
NEW: ‘It’s a coup’.
One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.
NB: They’re still not.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.
NB: They’re still not.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.
Reposted by Carole Cadwalladr
Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?
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Wow. Seriously, read it.
February 15, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Wow. Seriously, read it.
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This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
Reposted by Carole Cadwalladr
Thank you! As far as I can tell, the publishing industry and the press that covers it have said almost nothing about its Epstein connections through Epstein's bespoke literary agent John Brockman. The silence is giving off its own special stink. This was an important part of the Epstein "mystique."
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Thank you! As far as I can tell, the publishing industry and the press that covers it have said almost nothing about its Epstein connections through Epstein's bespoke literary agent John Brockman. The silence is giving off its own special stink. This was an important part of the Epstein "mystique."
I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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February 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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Richard Dawkins and Ian McEwan, amongst others, took part in this Epstein-organised pseudo intellectual think tank for eugenicists and neofascists.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Richard Dawkins and Ian McEwan, amongst others, took part in this Epstein-organised pseudo intellectual think tank for eugenicists and neofascists.
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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We were there and loved every minute.
Though it was sobering to learn from Laura Poitras that Seymour Hersh - a man who has bravely broken stories about so many obscene cover-ups by US military and gov (Vietnam, Nixon, Abu Ghraib) believes that things have never been as bad as they are right now…
Though it was sobering to learn from Laura Poitras that Seymour Hersh - a man who has bravely broken stories about so many obscene cover-ups by US military and gov (Vietnam, Nixon, Abu Ghraib) believes that things have never been as bad as they are right now…
And we have ANOTHER incredible screening tomorrow of BAFTA-nominated Cover-Up.
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
February 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
We were there and loved every minute.
Though it was sobering to learn from Laura Poitras that Seymour Hersh - a man who has bravely broken stories about so many obscene cover-ups by US military and gov (Vietnam, Nixon, Abu Ghraib) believes that things have never been as bad as they are right now…
Though it was sobering to learn from Laura Poitras that Seymour Hersh - a man who has bravely broken stories about so many obscene cover-ups by US military and gov (Vietnam, Nixon, Abu Ghraib) believes that things have never been as bad as they are right now…
‘Either sex workers or aspiring sugar babies’ @theatlantic.com on why it’s ok cos some of Epstein’s women were over 18
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 AM
‘Either sex workers or aspiring sugar babies’ @theatlantic.com on why it’s ok cos some of Epstein’s women were over 18
Hind Rajab ticket link here
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Nerve members film screening: The Voice of Hind Rajab
A special pre-Oscar screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab followed by a Q& A with the director
Kaouther Ben Hania
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February 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Hind Rajab ticket link here
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982520629...
Details of all of the above and/or email us at hello@thenerve.news
We're a member-supported organisation and hugely value your support 🙏
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February 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Details of all of the above and/or email us at hello@thenerve.news
We're a member-supported organisation and hugely value your support 🙏
www.thenerve.news/members
We're a member-supported organisation and hugely value your support 🙏
www.thenerve.news/members
And it's not just London! I'll be in conversation with the amazing @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social in Manchester on Feb 19. I got to know Ece's work because of her brilliant 'How to Lose a Country' about rising authoritarianism in Turkey & across the world. Now, she returns with a 'Nation of Strangers'
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
And it's not just London! I'll be in conversation with the amazing @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social in Manchester on Feb 19. I got to know Ece's work because of her brilliant 'How to Lose a Country' about rising authoritarianism in Turkey & across the world. Now, she returns with a 'Nation of Strangers'
And we have ANOTHER incredible screening tomorrow of BAFTA-nominated Cover-Up.
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
And we have ANOTHER incredible screening tomorrow of BAFTA-nominated Cover-Up.
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
Its sponsored by @netflix.com ix with drinks & nibbles & I'll be doing a Q&A with director Laura Poitras. It's for founder members of @thenerve.news but we have a few extra tickets hello@thenerve.news
📽️ TONIGHT: @thenerve.news is hosting a FREE London screening for members of the incredible Oscar-nominated film, The Voice of Hind Rajab & Q&A with director Kaouther Ben Hania. I'm delighted to introduce it with super-producer Odessa Rae.
www.thenerve.news/members
www.thenerve.news/members
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
📽️ TONIGHT: @thenerve.news is hosting a FREE London screening for members of the incredible Oscar-nominated film, The Voice of Hind Rajab & Q&A with director Kaouther Ben Hania. I'm delighted to introduce it with super-producer Odessa Rae.
www.thenerve.news/members
www.thenerve.news/members
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US media is indeed in disastrous, corporate meltdown but @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is too bleak about #Epstein fallout. That demands to hold accountable the criminal male elite are front & center in US politics & shattering MAGA coalition is amazing. And fight is not over.
youtu.be/P0P8GrAlTEk?...
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Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
US media is indeed in disastrous, corporate meltdown but @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is too bleak about #Epstein fallout. That demands to hold accountable the criminal male elite are front & center in US politics & shattering MAGA coalition is amazing. And fight is not over.
youtu.be/P0P8GrAlTEk?...
youtu.be/P0P8GrAlTEk?...
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The Epstein files expose the networks behind the same far-right playbook.
@elliechowns.bsky.social says it’s time for a full inquiry 👇
@elliechowns.bsky.social says it’s time for a full inquiry 👇
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Epstein files expose the networks behind the same far-right playbook.
@elliechowns.bsky.social says it’s time for a full inquiry 👇
@elliechowns.bsky.social says it’s time for a full inquiry 👇
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on press failings around the Epstein files @democracynow.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on press failings around the Epstein files @democracynow.org
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"The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, award-winning investigative journalist
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM
"The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, award-winning investigative journalist
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)
(Democracy Now, 2/10/26)