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NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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The Nerve weekend dish: Kai’s fish fingers and mayonnaise 🐟🍋
Chef Jess Murphy shares the dish she invented for fun and now can’t take off the menu at her Galway restaurant
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Chef Jess Murphy shares the dish she invented for fun and now can’t take off the menu at her Galway restaurant
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January 30, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The Nerve weekend dish: Kai’s fish fingers and mayonnaise 🐟🍋
Chef Jess Murphy shares the dish she invented for fun and now can’t take off the menu at her Galway restaurant
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Chef Jess Murphy shares the dish she invented for fun and now can’t take off the menu at her Galway restaurant
www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...
Andy West, the philosophy teacher who inspired hit BBC prison drama Waiting for the Out, speaks to Ursula Kenny about shame, survivor’s guilt and teaching Kafka in prisons
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January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Andy West, the philosophy teacher who inspired hit BBC prison drama Waiting for the Out, speaks to Ursula Kenny about shame, survivor’s guilt and teaching Kafka in prisons
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This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Richard Linklater's love letter to the French New Wave to Sébastien Tellier's horny electropop
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From Richard Linklater's love letter to the French New Wave to Sébastien Tellier's horny electropop
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January 28, 2026 at 11:57 AM
This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Richard Linklater's love letter to the French New Wave to Sébastien Tellier's horny electropop
🔗 Read the full list and subscribe to our free, twice-weekly newsletter at thenerve.news
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-no...
From Richard Linklater's love letter to the French New Wave to Sébastien Tellier's horny electropop
🔗 Read the full list and subscribe to our free, twice-weekly newsletter at thenerve.news
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-no...
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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🎥 ICE in Minneapolis is "the model"
Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all
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Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all
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NEW "Minneapolis is the model" Historian Robert Kagan says Insurrection Act will be invoked
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January 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM
🎥 ICE in Minneapolis is "the model"
Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all
youtube.com/shorts/d3lsO...
Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all
youtube.com/shorts/d3lsO...
Review of the Week:World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams
The high priestess of Americana is getting more politically charged in her 70s – with guest collabs inc Brittney Spencer helping her address the moral collapse of the US, writes @katehutchinson.bsky.social
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The high priestess of Americana is getting more politically charged in her 70s – with guest collabs inc Brittney Spencer helping her address the moral collapse of the US, writes @katehutchinson.bsky.social
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January 25, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Review of the Week:World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams
The high priestess of Americana is getting more politically charged in her 70s – with guest collabs inc Brittney Spencer helping her address the moral collapse of the US, writes @katehutchinson.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...
The high priestess of Americana is getting more politically charged in her 70s – with guest collabs inc Brittney Spencer helping her address the moral collapse of the US, writes @katehutchinson.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...
Stewart Lee's brilliant weekly column in which he tries to make sense of Trump at Davos.
"Somewhere in the speech, the clarification of Trump’s warlike intentions lay hidden, as if he were a massive louse laying his tiny eggs of hope in a toddler’s hair"
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"Somewhere in the speech, the clarification of Trump’s warlike intentions lay hidden, as if he were a massive louse laying his tiny eggs of hope in a toddler’s hair"
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
January 25, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Stewart Lee's brilliant weekly column in which he tries to make sense of Trump at Davos.
"Somewhere in the speech, the clarification of Trump’s warlike intentions lay hidden, as if he were a massive louse laying his tiny eggs of hope in a toddler’s hair"
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
"Somewhere in the speech, the clarification of Trump’s warlike intentions lay hidden, as if he were a massive louse laying his tiny eggs of hope in a toddler’s hair"
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago with snow
Bruno Giussani used to work at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The annual Davos conference used to achieve things, he says, but has now crossed the rubicon into a sub-division of Trump’s Mar-a-Largo court
www.thenerve.news/p/trump-spee...
Bruno Giussani used to work at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The annual Davos conference used to achieve things, he says, but has now crossed the rubicon into a sub-division of Trump’s Mar-a-Largo court
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How Trump Turned Davos Into Mar-a-Lago
I’ve worked at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, writes Bruno Giussani, it used to achieve things, until Donald Trump rolled up
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January 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
How Trump turned Davos into Mar-a-Lago with snow
Bruno Giussani used to work at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The annual Davos conference used to achieve things, he says, but has now crossed the rubicon into a sub-division of Trump’s Mar-a-Largo court
www.thenerve.news/p/trump-spee...
Bruno Giussani used to work at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The annual Davos conference used to achieve things, he says, but has now crossed the rubicon into a sub-division of Trump’s Mar-a-Largo court
www.thenerve.news/p/trump-spee...
The Recommender: award-winning actor Laurie Kynaston, soon to star in Man and Boy at the NT, shares his latest cultural favourites
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January 24, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The Recommender: award-winning actor Laurie Kynaston, soon to star in Man and Boy at the NT, shares his latest cultural favourites
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www.thenerve.news/p/recommende...
“Meghan. Amber. Monica. Britney. Countless others…Different stories, same outcome: when there’s drama, women become the punchbag”
Comedian and author @tovaleigh.bsky.social for the Nerve
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Comedian and author @tovaleigh.bsky.social for the Nerve
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January 24, 2026 at 10:53 AM
“Meghan. Amber. Monica. Britney. Countless others…Different stories, same outcome: when there’s drama, women become the punchbag”
Comedian and author @tovaleigh.bsky.social for the Nerve
www.thenerve.news/p/tova-leigh...
Comedian and author @tovaleigh.bsky.social for the Nerve
www.thenerve.news/p/tova-leigh...
The Nerve weekend dish: Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti
The Instagram cook and food creator shares one of her healthy, high-protein recipes
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The Instagram cook and food creator shares one of her healthy, high-protein recipes
www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...
January 23, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The Nerve weekend dish: Jess Hawkins’s baked chilli, prawn and feta spaghetti
The Instagram cook and food creator shares one of her healthy, high-protein recipes
www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...
The Instagram cook and food creator shares one of her healthy, high-protein recipes
www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...
As @sleafordmods.bsky.social release their 13th album, the Demise of Planet X, we asked @fitasfuck.bsky.social's for his top 5 culture recommendations.
The answer may surprise you...
Link to full film in next post ⏬
#quiteintensefromthewaistdown
The answer may surprise you...
Link to full film in next post ⏬
#quiteintensefromthewaistdown
January 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
As @sleafordmods.bsky.social release their 13th album, the Demise of Planet X, we asked @fitasfuck.bsky.social's for his top 5 culture recommendations.
The answer may surprise you...
Link to full film in next post ⏬
#quiteintensefromthewaistdown
The answer may surprise you...
Link to full film in next post ⏬
#quiteintensefromthewaistdown
This week's messages for Europe
Mark Carney: "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition"
US historian David Kagan: "Europe needs to become self sufficient in military & economic terms. It [faces] an aggressive America run by a megalomaniac"
Full interview w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔗 ⏬
Mark Carney: "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition"
US historian David Kagan: "Europe needs to become self sufficient in military & economic terms. It [faces] an aggressive America run by a megalomaniac"
Full interview w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔗 ⏬
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This week's messages for Europe
Mark Carney: "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition"
US historian David Kagan: "Europe needs to become self sufficient in military & economic terms. It [faces] an aggressive America run by a megalomaniac"
Full interview w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔗 ⏬
Mark Carney: "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition"
US historian David Kagan: "Europe needs to become self sufficient in military & economic terms. It [faces] an aggressive America run by a megalomaniac"
Full interview w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔗 ⏬
The 2004 Super Bowl indecency scandal could have ruined several careers, but it seemed it was only the black, female singer who really suffered, writes @paulavarjack.bsky.social, whose new show sets out to explore why - and whether anything has changed
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January 21, 2026 at 1:21 PM
The 2004 Super Bowl indecency scandal could have ruined several careers, but it seemed it was only the black, female singer who really suffered, writes @paulavarjack.bsky.social, whose new show sets out to explore why - and whether anything has changed
www.thenerve.news/p/janet-jack...
www.thenerve.news/p/janet-jack...
This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition
🔗 full list:
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-28...
From Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition
🔗 full list:
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-28...
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition
🔗 full list:
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-28...
From Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition
🔗 full list:
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-28...
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
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January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
YouTube video by The Nerve
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
NEW | VIDEO
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️
youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0
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A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
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Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda
Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts
www.thenerve.news
January 19, 2026 at 7:37 PM
A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda
Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts
www.thenerve.news
January 19, 2026 at 7:37 PM
A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
"From Bold Politics to bold media..."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social's verdict on the Nerve 🔥
Big thanks to Zack for having our co-founder
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on his @boldpolitics.bsky.social pod. It's a great listen, covering Big Tech, Reform and Russia, Trump and more
🔗 to full show ⏬
@zackpolanski.bsky.social's verdict on the Nerve 🔥
Big thanks to Zack for having our co-founder
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on his @boldpolitics.bsky.social pod. It's a great listen, covering Big Tech, Reform and Russia, Trump and more
🔗 to full show ⏬
January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"From Bold Politics to bold media..."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social's verdict on the Nerve 🔥
Big thanks to Zack for having our co-founder
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on his @boldpolitics.bsky.social pod. It's a great listen, covering Big Tech, Reform and Russia, Trump and more
🔗 to full show ⏬
@zackpolanski.bsky.social's verdict on the Nerve 🔥
Big thanks to Zack for having our co-founder
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on his @boldpolitics.bsky.social pod. It's a great listen, covering Big Tech, Reform and Russia, Trump and more
🔗 to full show ⏬
Nan Goldin's celebrated portrait series is being shown in full for the first time in the UK and is as raw and intimate on this its 40th anniversary as when it first appeared, writes Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Nan Goldin's celebrated portrait series is being shown in full for the first time in the UK and is as raw and intimate on this its 40th anniversary as when it first appeared, writes Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge.
Read the piece and subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter at thenerve.news
Read the piece and subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter at thenerve.news
"Wittgenstein's famous animal optical illusion, the two-faced Duck Rabbit, is nowhere disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs." Stewart Lee on top form.
Read full piece and subscribe to get Stewart's weekly columns at thenerve.news 🔗 ⬇️
Read full piece and subscribe to get Stewart's weekly columns at thenerve.news 🔗 ⬇️
January 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM
"Wittgenstein's famous animal optical illusion, the two-faced Duck Rabbit, is nowhere disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs." Stewart Lee on top form.
Read full piece and subscribe to get Stewart's weekly columns at thenerve.news 🔗 ⬇️
Read full piece and subscribe to get Stewart's weekly columns at thenerve.news 🔗 ⬇️
The videos of ICE agents in Minneapolis captured by citizens are being seen on social media feeds across the globe
John Mulholland compiles the most widely shared videos and examines what effect they are having on US public opinion
www.thenerve.news/p/ice-minnea...
John Mulholland compiles the most widely shared videos and examines what effect they are having on US public opinion
www.thenerve.news/p/ice-minnea...
January 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The videos of ICE agents in Minneapolis captured by citizens are being seen on social media feeds across the globe
John Mulholland compiles the most widely shared videos and examines what effect they are having on US public opinion
www.thenerve.news/p/ice-minnea...
John Mulholland compiles the most widely shared videos and examines what effect they are having on US public opinion
www.thenerve.news/p/ice-minnea...
The Recommender: Jason Williamson aka @fitasfuck.bsky.social
The @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman, whose 13th album The Demise of Planet X is out now on @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, on his favourite recent culture
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
The @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman, whose 13th album The Demise of Planet X is out now on @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, on his favourite recent culture
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The Recommender: Jason Williamson aka @fitasfuck.bsky.social
The @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman, whose 13th album The Demise of Planet X is out now on @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, on his favourite recent culture
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
The @sleafordmods.bsky.social frontman, whose 13th album The Demise of Planet X is out now on @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, on his favourite recent culture
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
BREAKING Tony Blair and Jared Kushner appointed by Trump to Gaza 'Board of Peace'
Read @carolecadwalla on Tony Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government inc billionaire Larry Ellison, + emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space⏬🔗
Read @carolecadwalla on Tony Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government inc billionaire Larry Ellison, + emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space⏬🔗
January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
BREAKING Tony Blair and Jared Kushner appointed by Trump to Gaza 'Board of Peace'
Read @carolecadwalla on Tony Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government inc billionaire Larry Ellison, + emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space⏬🔗
Read @carolecadwalla on Tony Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government inc billionaire Larry Ellison, + emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space⏬🔗