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You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not.
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not.
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
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A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. This has put me in mind of Nigel Farage
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. This has put me in mind of Nigel Farage
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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The consolidation of Right Wing power in the UK.
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Deal likely to trigger indepth investigation after agreement between Lord Rothermere’s DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The consolidation of Right Wing power in the UK.
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Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Deal likely to trigger indepth investigation after agreement between Lord Rothermere’s DMGT and Redbird IMI
The owner of the Daily Mail has struck a £500m deal to buy the Telegraph titles, in a move that will create a right-leaning publishing powerhouse.
Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) has entered a period exclusivity with RedBird IMI, which has been seeking a buyer since being forced to put the papers up for sale last Spring, to finalise the terms of the transaction. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
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It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
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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...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game
As New Yorkers vote, the popular Muslim, socialist candidate is favourite. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports on the role his fearless, canny, funny social media posts have played
www.thenerve.news/p/tiktok-sav...
As New Yorkers vote, the popular Muslim, socialist candidate is favourite. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports on the role his fearless, canny, funny social media posts have played
www.thenerve.news/p/tiktok-sav...
‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game
As New Yorkers vote today, an unapologetically leftwing – and hugely popular – Muslim candidate is leading the polls. His fearless, canny, and often funny, social media posting has played a key part i...
www.thenerve.news
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise.
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise.
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
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From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and not be challenged. Why?
In this week’s column, Stewart Lee looks at the ways populists mislead modern voters
In this week’s column, Stewart Lee looks at the ways populists mislead modern voters
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and not be challenged. Why?
In this week’s column, Stewart Lee looks at the ways populists mislead modern voters
In this week’s column, Stewart Lee looks at the ways populists mislead modern voters
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O2's price hike feels like a mockery of Ofcom's consumer protection!
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
O2's price hike feels like a mockery of Ofcom's consumer protection!
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In this week’s column for the Nerve, the incomparable Stewart Lee wonders what Lenny Bruce and a generation he inspired would make of those on stage at the Riyadh comedy festival
October 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In this week’s column for the Nerve, the incomparable Stewart Lee wonders what Lenny Bruce and a generation he inspired would make of those on stage at the Riyadh comedy festival
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How can culture fight back in a turbulent world?
The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee
The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How can culture fight back in a turbulent world?
The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee
The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee
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‘Are the flags that now bedeck our suburbs and estates patriotic or racist?’
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
‘Are the flags that now bedeck our suburbs and estates patriotic or racist?’
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet
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This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought
2025 Fringe: Final show Thirty-Four is Joke Experts with Sam Campbell, Rose Matafeo and Paul Williams, A mad 50 minutes ending with Paul leaving early for his show, Rose running out to get ice cream and Sam leading the whole audience out to follow her.
@rosematafeo.bsky.social
@rosematafeo.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 Fringe: Final show Thirty-Four is Joke Experts with Sam Campbell, Rose Matafeo and Paul Williams, A mad 50 minutes ending with Paul leaving early for his show, Rose running out to get ice cream and Sam leading the whole audience out to follow her.
@rosematafeo.bsky.social
@rosematafeo.bsky.social
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-Three is Ed Night who we saw for the first time, and it won't be the last, he was brilliant.
August 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-Three is Ed Night who we saw for the first time, and it won't be the last, he was brilliant.
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-Two is @tiffstevenson.bsky.social giving us great entertainment despite last night's injury
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-Two is @tiffstevenson.bsky.social giving us great entertainment despite last night's injury
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-One is Celya AB doing a cracking work in progress
August 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty-One is Celya AB doing a cracking work in progress
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty is the amazing Jessica Fostekew with the final show of the WIP we saw, full of energy and a bit of hissing.
August 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
2025 Fringe: Show Thirty is the amazing Jessica Fostekew with the final show of the WIP we saw, full of energy and a bit of hissing.
2025 Fringe: Show Twenty-Nine is Relay, a wonderful musical by @leilanavabi.bsky.social about making a baby.
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
2025 Fringe: Show Twenty-Nine is Relay, a wonderful musical by @leilanavabi.bsky.social about making a baby.
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Look at all the predators
August 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Look at all the predators