THE NERVE

thenerve.news

20 July 2026 18:27

The turnout for Liz Truss’s MAGA-style conference… @stellathegreek.bsky.social reports from The Intercontinental at The O2 for the Nerve. For more of our reporting on CPAC, sign up to our newsletter at thenerve.news/subscribe

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

19 July 2026 18:33

If you conclude (and frankly I sort of have too) that the problem with the specific choices the UK has made, our geographic location is the current policy endpoint is 'we'll be one of the last countries to use gas and one of the first to stop making any money on it', you go, hmm, perhaps not.

THE NERVE

thenerve.news

17 July 2026 15:39

“I’m introduced to an academic described as a eugenicist. His eyes look sad, but his tone is cheerful; he offers to ‘say eugenicist things on camera’” @stellathegreek.bsky.social on this week’s ARC conference in London, the ‘rightwing Davos’ www.thenerve.news/p/alliance-r...

Jonn Elledge

jonnelledge.bsky.social

13 June 2025 12:33

entering the part of the year in which the dog stares mournfully at me because he's uncomfortable and he just can't understand why I'd be so stupid as to let it get this hot

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

27 May 2025 14:20

Today's newsletter: Labour is moving towards scrapping the child benefit limit (good). But a problem with exiting from their unachievable promises on tax-and-spend in an unplanned way is that they end up prioritising badly overall: