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Jemima Kelly
@jemima.bsky.social
Columnist and feature writer at the Financial Times.

👩🏼‍💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
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I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.

My cover story for today’s FT Magazine

on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
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🚨HOLY SHIT: Joe Rogan slams Trump’s ICE raids:

“You don't want militarized people in the streets snatching up people…U.S. citizens (without) papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? 'Where's your papers?’ Is that what we've come to?”
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention. A woman was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today. This should outrage us all. ICE out of our cities now. youtube.com/shorts/ecsmn...
ICE Out of Cities Now
YouTube video by Ed Markey for Senate
youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Sublime shithousery from the @financialtimes.com 🤌🏽

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter: shorturl.at/QkJ5A
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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FT always takes bylines to the next level
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Lol, we have reached peak protein, I'm calling the top
January 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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‘It is a particularly disorienting aspect of modern life that we construct so much of our identities around our personal brands… with the aim of pleasing not ourselves, not even our loved ones, but the unknowable “general peer”.’
@jemima.bsky.social on bucket lists
www.ft.com/content/edb1...
Bin the bucket list in 2026
It’s the spontaneous moments that make life rich and exciting, not the ones for which you have sky-high expectations
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January 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
🔮✨🪄🦄 PART 5 of my quarterly Adventures in Woo Woo is out in this week’s HTSI and on @ftweekend.com and it’s my favourite yet… 🧞‍♀️

www.ft.com/content/6a83... Why I fell for transcendental meditation
Why I fell for transcendental meditation
David Lynch practised it for more than 50 years. But can our wellness correspondent reach her bliss?
www.ft.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:
Why your AI companion is not your friend
First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’
www.ft.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For this week’s Betwixtmas column, I wrote about the joy and importance of service to others

as.ft.com/r/8c5dbbc4-3... ‘Wellness’ culture is empty without service to others

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‘Wellness’ culture is empty without service to others
[FREE TO READ] Volunteering has declined along with religion — it needs a revival
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December 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Gift or curse, you can decide 🤗
What are the stories that will define 2026? FT columnist @jemima.bsky.social unwraps the big ideas shaping the year ahead.

A little gift from #FTEdit 🎁 Follow for more #FTEditpresents
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Out today - 16% of public feel a profound sense of awe or wonder at the universe or nature DAILY, 12% say they NEVER feel that, with an even spread across range between. One of my favourite qs of year - don't often get sense of how different our mental models are

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/one-in-...
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Boiling live lobsters to be banned under animal rights reforms

www.thetimes.com/article/c994...
Boiling live lobsters to be banned under animal rights reforms
Downing Street has published its welfare strategy, which sets out a series of new farming and food standards and banning trail hunting
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December 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
lovely
A little selection of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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December 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is a thoughtful and welcome counterpoint to the prevailing discourse problematising masculinity
From @jemima.bsky.social | In praise of male courage - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
In praise of male courage
The heroes of Bondi Beach should be celebrated in an era of ‘toxic masculinity’
giftarticle.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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“If we hide in our separate silos, opposing only certain kinds of bigotry, or supporting liberty only for certain kinds of people, we will all lose.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
When free speech becomes weaponised and tribal, everybody...
Protecting expression for one’s own side, while censoring others, serves neither liberty nor safety
observer.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My column this week

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In praise of male courage
[FREE TO READ] The heroes of Bondi Beach should be celebrated in an era of ‘toxic masculinity’
as.ft.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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National news, UK.
Woman's shock as goose smashes through front door in Countesthorpe
Wildlife rescuers think the Canada goose misjudged its descent before smashing through the door.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Very fun Q&A happening right now with @jayrayner1.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social and Bee Wilson. Including an unwelcome answers to my question about whether it is ok to leave your Christmas ham out on the side all Christmas. www.ft.com/content/13dd...
Submit your questions to Jay Rayner, Tim Hayward and Bee Wilson: What should I cook this festive season?
Take part in a live Q&A with three star FT food writers today at 11am GMT
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Incredible, intensely moving piece. Astonishing courage from one man, and a very sad ending for another

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‘It’s just a bomb’
[FREE TO READ] The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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RIGHT HERE: click the first link called Finsbury Park bowling alley

Click “No” to say you do not support the proposal

Then give an IMPASSIONED PLEA to save Rowan’s in the box asking for reasons why. Please don’t let them take it away 😫😫😫😫😫
haringeynewlocalplan.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Stroud Green
Check out the proposed neighbourhood placemaking approach for Stroud Green and let us know your thoughts.
haringeynewlocalplan.commonplace.is
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
please don't do this haringey
NEW: Iconic Finsbury Park bowling alley and nightclub Rowans is facing demolition as part of new plans to build a 190-home development.

More details in today's briefing, plus the war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its wealthy neighbours.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
Beloved bowling alley Rowans is under threat from a 190-home development
Plus: Dalston's best hidden pub, a war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its neighbours, and more in our Monday briefing
www.the-londoner.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wow, Trump is really losing it
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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1/ @jemima.bsky.social of @financialtimes.com is back from safari, and doing what she does best... Today, a look at Marjorie Taylor Greene.
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week's column, on the chutzpah of MTG

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The chutzpah of Marjorie Taylor Greene
[FREE TO READ] Once a pugnacious devotee, the former Maga maximalist is now one of the few Republicans who stands up to Trump
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December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Amazing courage
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM