The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie

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This is worrying given how expensive gas is going to get: that developers are switching back to gas boilers because data centres are taking all the grid capacity for new developments.
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Stewart Lee: No more Cameo videos, no more crypto … Nigel will have to launch Farage’s far-right sex shop What will Reform’s leader and party do for money now that their dubious income streams are being shut down?

What will Reform’s leader and party do for money now that their dubious income streams are being shut down, asks our weekly columnist Stewart Lee.
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Picture of 5 women: 2 sitting on sofa, 2 on the arms, 1 behind. Fairly casually dressed. Text: The Nerve.

Just signed up for @thenerve.news
Was getting it free for a while. If I must read the news, then this is the one for me. Some deep dives, some culture n chat.
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General Sir Richard Shirreff: Trump is trapped in a doomed war. What should Britain do now? The US is deploying tactics without strategy in its hubristic attack on Iran. The UK cannot afford to join it in its mistake, writes a former senior Nato commander

General Sir Richard Shirreff: Trump is trapped in a doomed war. What should Britain do now?
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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

Please read this excellent article by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr from #TheNerve about #MoD sources warning that #Palantir ’s role at the heart of the #UKgovernment is a threat to #NationalSecurity.

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Anyone else had just about enough of these clueless rich boys telling us to tighten our belts?

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Shocking data one who really funds #ReformUK

No surprise...the wealthy!

With a whopping 63% of their money (since 2019) coming from ONE MAN ...billionaire Christopher Harborne

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Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all is that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our c...

In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all is that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes #CaroleCadwalledr #TheNerve
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One thing I picked up from the Bold Politics podcast is that Carole Cadwalladr and some other ex-Guardian reporters have just set up a new venture 'The Nerve". Looks worth checking out

#TheNerve #NewMedia #CaroleCadwalladr #TheGuardian

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"like Fred West in a bee costume" has made me giggle for FAR longer than it should have. And it's the perfect simile.

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A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr There is life for journalists after being sacked by a major brand, says Cadwalladr.

“A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr
There is life for journalists after being sacked by a major brand, says Cadwalladr”

#washingtonpost #journalism #facts #newspapers #thenerve

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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...

Summary: 😱 UK tax money funds American right-wing via US tech billionaire - besides #TheNerve 's key point that 😱 #Palantir ’s “strategic partnership” with the #MoD is creating vulnerabilities www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that Europe needs to wake up, fa...

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Wonderful stuff #thenerve #kagan

‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that Europe needs to wake up, fa...

Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance
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If you don't know who @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is, do yourself a favour and see how one courageous journo can show us all how to uncover the truth behind the far right in our politics. 🇺🇲 And 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Stop Normalizing Fascism If not now, then when?

'Stop Normalizing Fascism'
If not now, then when? By Catol Cadwalldr on substack.
Great article. Please read and share

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#antifascism #palantir #greenland #resist #nazis #currentaffairs #historians #fascism #NATO #denmark #tariffs #thenerve #carolcadwalladr

Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere Wittgenstein’s famous animal optical illusion from the 1950s is nowhere near as disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs

Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere!

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#comedy #stewartlee #thenerve #antifascism #resist #news #satire #socialcommentary #currentaffairs

Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere Wittgenstein’s famous animal optical illusion from the 1950s is nowhere near as disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs

Yet another brilliant opinion piece by #StewartLee in @thenerve.news today.
Read it while it's hot (or something)

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This girl needs a #realitycheck I wonder how she talks when she has no power or protection. #condescending #snarky #thislittlepiggy #thenerve #unhinged #triggered #karoline

Geweldig te lezen dat Carole Cadwalladr c.s. hun eigen nieuwsplatfirm hebben gestart:
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Veel succes dames!

Peter Thiel's New Model Army The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

Not the most uplifting read, but if you get to point 3, there are some positives.
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Stewart Lee: Nakedly imperialist oil wars just aren’t what they used to be Call me nostalgic, but didn’t the US used to have a cover story for invading South American countries – or at least have a president who could remember what it was?

Apropos of nothing, I saw some white dog poop in #Mauritius this week!

Also, here's another great column by #StewartLee in @thenerve.news

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All this is true our Ed. So you and your team need to come out swinging ✊🏼 properly challenge the 'elites' working for oligarchs and international oligopolies. You'll be shut down by 90% of main stream media so focus online, #newworld #togetheralliance #thenerve #restispolitics Gary Linaker etc al

Why did I just hear one of the guests on #Belowdeck Season 10 ep. 2 As they disembark onto a smaller boat headed to town just say " I don't wanna be on the beach with poor people" what the He!!
#thenerve some people don't deserve a life where they're not worried about money #dobetter in 2026

The Nerve's heroes of the year Fearless reporters, ground-breaking artists, prophetic writers ... our contributors pick the people who’ve inspired them most over a tumultuous 12 months

A difficult choice! #TheNerve

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Stewart Lee: Trump’s BBC lawsuit isn’t about money. It’s about destroying a news provider The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him

Stewart Lee: Trump’s BBC lawsuit isn’t about money. It’s about destroying a news provider
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‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage John Sweeney talks to the journalist and author Michael Crick, who confronted the Reform leader with allegations of schoolboy antisemitism over a decade ago. How does he feel about the party’s positio...

This week our Reform correspondent takes a look at the racism allegations surrounding Nigel Farage and talks to the journalist and author Michael Crick who first confronted the party leader about schoolboy anti-semitism over a decade ago
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John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time John Sweeney takes a look at teenager George’s Finch’s recent controversial comments about the alleged rape of a child – and says he’s skating on thin ice

John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time.
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