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Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @TheSTMagazine @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE. http://jennykleeman.substack.com jennykleeman.com

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is the face of an extremely surprised and very chuffed person.

Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · 14d

Try here www.jennykleeman.com/contact

Contact — Jenny Kleeman

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · 17d

Spent much of today reading this extraordinary, harrowing piece. Everyone should read it

Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 21d

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think this is the thing. It liked being rained on.

Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

These plants are clearly more needy than my human children. But thank you - really appreciate your advice.

Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s inside, indirect sunlight. Indoor potting compost… some leaves are v droopy

Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you. Repotted, am not over watering, and still it yellows.

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

This all makes sense. Thank you! Now, can you tell me why my cheese plant is dying too? (I am only half joking)

Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

I want it to live but I don’t know if I can handle its rejection again… but do share!

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 30

After going to great lengths to keep my fussy calathea houseplant alive over the past four years, it finally died. I left the pot of earth outside. Five weeks later, two huge new leaves have sprouted from the pot I have completely ignored and it’s a living rebuke of my love and care, I tell you.

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you!

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The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social · Aug 18

"It all made such shockingly perfect sense."

With Animal Farm turning 80, we asked some friends of the Foundation to share their first encounters. Our thanks (and an extra helping of apples) to all who took part!

orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/it-all-mad...

"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty

Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

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ReaderBank @thereaderbank.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our lead researcher @aldersonday.bsky.social joins @jennykleeman.bsky.social and Emily Postan to talk about mental health and the use of digital technologies like AI for treatment. In this shifting landscape, what considerations and safeguards are needed to embed these treatments in the mainstream?

Mary, Ben, Jenny and Emily sit onstage with screens on either side, facing a mixed audience. The screens show colorful graphics.

A close up of Ben Alderson-Day as he speaks, gesturing with his hand.

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 15

How to write a Sunday Times Bestseller? Get 635 people to buy your book open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

LRN No. 54: how selling 635 copies makes you a bestseller

Plus: the death of Naina Mishra

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 13

There are few things more exciting than seeing your book in another language, translated into another writing system, and imagining it being read on the other side of the world.

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Aug 9

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... I wrote about the death of Naina Mishra, and what happens when family estrangement and mental illness combine. What do we owe to vulnerable young adults who want to be left alone?

‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness

Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her moth...

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’ll be reviewing tomorrow’s newspapers on #skypapers tonight from 10.30pm on Sky News with @jennykleeman.bsky.social, very much the Batman to my Robin.

two men dressed as batman and robin are walking down a street .

ALT: two men dressed as batman and robin are walking down a street .

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jul 15

I have just been sent an email trying to get me to buy an advent calendar. We are nearing permachristmas.

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jul 12

Follow Becky on Instagram, if Instagram is your thing - she’s @r.e.burke there

Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jul 12

Feel very lucky to own a sample of Becky Burke’s forthcoming comic about her 19 days of incarceration in an immigration detention centre in the USA. I wrote about Becky in April for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Jul 12

Important news for anyone who listens to BBC podcasts outside the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

BBC podcasts and audio are now available on BBC.com

Listen to current BBC podcasts and a rich archive of shows on demand on BBC.com and on the BBC app.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · Jul 9

A good resource for freelancers. @atavist.com isn't on the list (yet?) but for reference, we pay at minimum $6,000 per story, plus royalties based on traffic.

www.freelancingwithtim.com/p/freelance-...

Here's what 300+ publications pay freelancers

The good, the bad, and the ugly

www.freelancingwithtim.com

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jul 4

Totally had enough of Oasis and they haven’t even played a note yet

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here is someone wearing white gloves leafing through the complex Chinese version of The Price of Life. Haven’t got my hands in a copy yet… www.youtube.com/shorts/2uvd9...

一條命值多少錢

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is the face of an extremely surprised and very chuffed person.

Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
@orwellprize.bsky.social

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Jenny Kleeman @jennykleeman.bsky.social · Jun 26

It was extraordinary company to be in.