Just a final visual reminder from #TheNerve of exactly where #Palantir ‘s tentacles extend to within #Starmer’s government…

Fun fact I didn’t realise until just now but Louis Mosley (Executive vice-president, UK and Europe) is the former research assistant for ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart (Rest is Politics podcast host)…and grandson of British fascist, Oswald Mosley.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-government-contracts-size-nuclear-deterrent-atomic-peter-thiel-louis-mosley

‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria

In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter

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David Starkey just can’t help himself: now he’s talking about black people ‘dipped in chocolate’

The once-respected historian has descended into public racism again on his contrarian podcast. The even bigger problem is, he’s now an adviser to the hard right, says Sangita Myska

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Shocking data on who really funds #ReformUK

No surprise...the wealthy!

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

0ver 80% coming from 30 billionaires or millionaires who are Tory donors and/or Reform leadership.
#VoteReformGetATrump

Get the receipt from #TheNerve
https://www.thenerve.news/p/reform-funding-conservative-donors-tories-farage-braverman-jenrick?utm_source=www.thenerve.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=tuesday-edition-who-s-funding-farage-culture-hotlist&_bhlid=74c2a478e492f5c2a7caf9ff478f305c1fd2141e

Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors

The majority of the money behind Nigel Farage’s movement was being supplied by Conservative interests even before the defection of so many high-profile figures from the party – to the alarm of former Reform faithfuls, writes Charlie Young

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"Tuesday edition: Who's funding Farage?"

https://www.thenerve.news/p/tuesday-edition-who-funding-farage-culture-hotlist


Our researcher Charlie Young has spent weeks poring over records of who is donating what. He says: “I worked on this with a brilliant anonymous source who’d simply reached out online after noticing a funky pattern. Ever since, the two of us have been neck deep in Electoral Commission filings, trying to work out if Reform is in fact just three Tories in a trench coat.”

#Reform #ThreeToriesInATrenchcoat #UKPol #TheNerve

Tuesday edition: Who's funding Farage? | Culture Hotlist

Plus, last few tickets for Ece Temelkuran event in Manchester on Thursday

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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

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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 culture, writes Carole Cadwalladr

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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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