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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · 17d

I spoke to six people across the income spectrum in the UK about how money does and doesn't work for them for the new issue of British GQ www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/six-...

Six ordinary people speak candidly about the cost of living in Britain

It might be the last taboo in Britain: money. Who hasn’t got enough. Who has too much. Who is paying (or isn’t) and for what. So, we assembled a handful of Brits from different income brackets – from ...

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Sep 4

unexpected and very nice to have a piece I wrote for the dial about baseball last year selected for this anthology! ⚾

the piece is here: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Finnish tourist board claim that they can teach you how to be happy. I wrote about their attempt to make me as happy as the happiest people on earth for Slate, and you can read it here if you like slate.com/life/2025/08...

It’s the Happiest Country in the World. I Spent a Week There. I Wish I Could Unlearn Its Secret.

The truth is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.

slate.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Aug 27

indulged in a little “old man yells at cloud” ranting in the guardian today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it – and I’ll tell you why | Imogen West-Knights

It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that, says writer Imogen West-Knights

www.theguardian.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Aug 27

thank you!

Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jul 6

This week’s FT Weekend magazine cover story is by me! About five days I spent last summer at a brain-hacking retreat in Washington www.ft.com/content/0bb8...

Inside the ‘neurohacking’ camp that promises worldly bliss in five days

Can you really gain 40 years of spiritual enlightenment in a week?

www.ft.com

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Apr 10

great @imogenwk.bsky.social piece on why it still feels off that Black Mirror has made "basement goblin" Charlie Brooker an international star.

The Netflix Show That Ruined Everyone’s Lives is Back. Not Enough People Know Who Made It.

He's a household name of a very different sort in Britain.

slate.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Apr 10

thank you sam!

Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Apr 7

another blinder of a day for the forces of evil that periodically try to make me learn how the stock markets work. my stupidity will prevail. you will not make me read that

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Mar 31

wrote about a beloved hobby of mine slate.com/culture/2025...

The British Figured Out the Perfect Kind of Crossword. Where You At, Americans?

How to get started with cryptic crosswords, the most rewarding kind of puzzle.

slate.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Mar 26

true enough that the subject has been around a long time but i do think this a is particularly well done example!

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Mar 26

really missing twitter today x

The Londoner @londonermag.bsky.social · Mar 26

"My event is the only one that fucks. Believe me, those bathrooms have seen a lot.”

Reading series have become the capital's most in-demand tickets. Are they making London's literary scene sexy again?

www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-londo...

"My event is the only one that fucks": inside London's hot new literary scenes

Reading series have become the capital's most in-demand tickets. Is literature sexy again?

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Mar 11

There’s still another season for Severance’s showrunners to throw it all away, Lost-style. But I feel cautiously confident that they won’t, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...

Severance and the art of the mystery reveal

How do you balance the setting-up of questions with the provision of answers? Some shows get it very right—and some disastrously wrong

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 22

Out today in FT Weekend, a piece about a couple of days I spent at a centre for hobo culture in California last summer, and railroad riding in general www.ft.com/content/b7f8...

Life on the tracks: hanging with America’s hobos

Their heyday may have been 100 years ago, but hobos are still riding freight trains to get around today

www.ft.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 12

i am now in greenland, for it is turning out to be… an unspecified length of time. if you’re interested in greenland i am documenting it on instagram! find me there if you like!

Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 4

Very very very excited that I will be in Greenland for work soon. Have you by any chance been to Greenland? Anything amazing you did in Nuuk or Ilulissat that I should also do?

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 12

had fun trying to work through some hard feelings about paddington bear for Slate slate.com/culture/2025...

You Might Think Paddington Bear Is Cute and Cuddly. Some Brits Know Better.

He was a beloved hero with a boopable nose—then it all changed.

slate.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 7

get your dirt on all things blurb here slate.com/culture/2025...

One of Literature’s Most Ancient Traditions Is Under Threat. Authors Are Thrilled.

“I was really horrified the first time someone said I should just make something up for them to approve,” one author raves.

slate.com

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Feb 4

Very very very excited that I will be in Greenland for work soon. Have you by any chance been to Greenland? Anything amazing you did in Nuuk or Ilulissat that I should also do?

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 31

On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 31

On book blurbing! I am going to be writing something about this. If you are an author, or a publishing professional, with something you would like to get off your chest, positive or negative, in strictest secrecy, about the practice of book blurbing: please DM me. You can be anonymous. x

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 23

unfortunately i think this would mess very badly with my knowledge of swedish. also it sounds like that... :)

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 22

actively looking for more things to show no aptitude for whatsoever

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 22

no one has ever looked at me with such total, compassionate pity as reese the pure gym instructor looks at me

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 22

2025 is my year for sucking at stuff. i am going to weight lifting classes and learning to play guitar. i suck really bad at both these things. i experience complete ego death once, if not twice a day. it absolutely rules

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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social · Jan 13

how are you gonna find that fascinating through line to make the headline if all they've said is like "i am excited about my new project :) "

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