Cordelia Jenkins
@cordeliajenkins.bsky.social
Editor of the FT Weekend Magazine cordelia.jenkins@ft.com
This @robinwigglesworth.ft.com essay lifting the lid on the repo market is so clever and well written. Free link here... www.ft.com/content/8a7e...
The repo market is the ‘dark matter’ of finance: powerful and perilous
How worried should we be about the multitrillion-dollar market’s influence over the cosmos of central banks, bonds, pension plans and private credit firms?
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James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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From our incredibly beautiful rivers photo special, here's a free link to Gill Plimmer's enraging piece about how British waterways were poisoned. With photography commissioned from up and down the country by Dafna Talmor, Yan Wang Preston and Hannah Mary Morgan as.ft.com/r/e0440ba7-3...
The fight to save England’s rivers
Public confidence in the privatised water suppliers has collapsed. How did they get away with poisoning our water for decades?
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I couldn't eat! Never happened to me in my life before - who even was I?? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The strange hunger of hospital life
Five days in hospital made food feel impossible until one sticky, buttery Instagram fantasy lodged in my mind
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Great reporting here from @khoureld.bsky.social who found and spoke to several Colombian mercenaries who claim they were hired to fight alongside the RSF in Sudan by a UAE company as.ft.com/r/679844be-2...
The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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Read this fantastic feat of reporting, so beautifully written by @matthewembremner.bsky.social
Longreads@longreads.com · last mo."She looks at her boy and, for the first time, in a way that feels almost unbearable, she understands what was done to them." Matthew Bremner for @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/016a...
And if you haven’t had a chance to read Felix Bazalgette’s great piece on how online pirate libraries are shaping the AI revolution yet then here’s a free link… as.ft.com/r/83599445-e...
The race to collect every book ever written
When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution
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We asked the FT's climate corro @kenzabryan.ft.com to answer an all important question... just how toxic are your underpants, really? She took the commission very seriously and the answer is more clear cut than you think... as.ft.com/r/f8f9c6e3-4...
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
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From this article about the (surprisingly cross-ideological) “detox movement” subculture of Americans trying to remove plastics and other synthetic chemicals from their lifestyles.
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
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One woman's quest to detoxify her pants. Spoiler: forever chemicals are not cutesy and aspirational like forever homes or forever families. as.ft.com/r/70cf298a-9...
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
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You think you know about China's one child policy, but this amazingly moving story of a life in its shadow is so revealing you see it and its consequences so sharply as.ft.com/r/218e9755-3...
In one-child China, she thrived. The unravelling came later
The story of a life shaped by a radical social policy
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This week’s mag cover by @samlearner.bsky.social is about how the fever for vibe coding is breaking the internet is terrifying, brilliant and funny in turns. Hats off to Sam and to @okr.bsky.social for superb editing. as.ft.com/r/9e8ecbaf-9...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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The FT Mag's America at 250 edition is out today, featuring the thoughts of Stephen Breyer, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Simon Schama, @okr.bsky.social Harlan Bozeman @jayrayner1.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social Jancis Robinson & more www.ft.com/content/3265... @ftweekend.com
My fellow American: who should be remembered for the next 250 years?
Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured: from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker
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In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, a white mob murdered Black men in the street and overthrew the city’s democratically elected biracial government. North Carolina would not elect another Black person to Congress until 1992. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/SBU6sA
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup
A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability.
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Brilliant must-read piece on Andy Burnham’s Manchester years. Great job again by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social and FT Mag editor @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social 👍 www.ft.com/content/9949...
The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:
The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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Our own @pilitaclark.bsky.social is on indomitable form here, tracking the dogged fight to build an alliance outside the COPs to make a plan for phasing out fossil fuels.... as.ft.com/r/7dd2eaf9-0...
The messy, chaotic and possibly quixotic quest to phase out fossil fuels
The inside story of a climate summit unlike any other
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One of my favourite mag pieces of late is this appropriately joyful and poetic piece by Matthew Holman on the great Frank O'Hara's lesser known work as an ambassador of American art for Nelson Rockefeller's International Program .... its so good. Gift link here as.ft.com/r/eafb8692-f...
Frank O’Hara and the end of the ‘American Century’
The poet and curator was at the forefront of US efforts to project its high art as forcefully as its military might abroad — an idea that now looks dead
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My cover story in today's FT Magazine, for which I listened to THIRTY EIGHT EPISODES of the Katie Miller Podcast, in their entirety. 🫠 Meet the Millers. (Illustration by Pierre Mornet / Grant Wood) as.ft.com/r/910e125d-f... (GIFT LINK! 🎁)
Inside the White House’s most inscrutable marriage. (No not that one)
What the union of Stephen and Katie Miller says about Maga world
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in professional news, come monday i've got a new role at the FT: commissioning editor on FT Weekend Magazine. very excited; send pitches.
The brilliant Suzy Hansen has written an essay for @FTMag from an extract of her new book "From Life Itself" about what happened in one Istanbul neighbourhood over a decade of political chaos and its so good... as.ft.com/r/8b8bed7f-3...
How a lawless Istanbul neighbourhood weathered a decade of political shocks
Through regional wars, terrorism and mass migration, an area of the old city was transformed by forces beyond its residents’ imaginations
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I cannot recommend this week's cover story by @christopherjm.ft.com highly enough. It's the frankly astonishing story of the fortitude of one Ukrainian drone commander on the eastern front... don't miss it... as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4...
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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Delighted to have @rahulabhatia.bsky.social in the magazine this weekend. His essay on Dubai and the psychological bargains its residents make in order to justify staying in place while a war hovers in the background is just beautiful... as.ft.com/r/cb855c7b-9...
This piece by Orlando Reade in the mag is a fascinating tale that jumps from Paradise Lost, to 19th-century New Orleans to Mardi Gras 2026 where Milton's radical streak is still very much in evidence in Trump's America. Read it, for free, I urge you... as.ft.com/r/0530b559-8...
The search for the faceless king of Mardi Gras
[FREE TO READ] How a Milton scholar’s journey to the poet’s dark side led him to New Orleans, birthplace of the secretive ‘Mistick Krewe of Comus’
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And another great read here... David Pilling's piece on the man whose amazing feat of animal husbandry made him the owner of 1 in 10 rhinos in Africa, and who is now facing allegations of running a vast horn-trafficking network. as.ft.com/r/9948dcdd-e...
On the trail of South Africa’s ‘rhino baron’
[FREE TO READ] John Hume bred 2,000 rhinos in captivity. Were they a cover for one of the most successful horn-trafficking networks in history?
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As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...
‘It’s just a bomb’
The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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Nothing but admiration for Jemima Kelly’s maniacal zeal to reproduce Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party. I can attest it was a spectacular night for all the right reasons. Read about it here... as.ft.com/r/4d077ebc-3...
Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
[FREE TO READ] Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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Love this cover. Thanks so much to the FT Mag team. First 300 clicks free: as.ft.com/r/c220d67b-1...
Almost exactly ten years ago @henrymance.ft.com had lunch with Nigel Farage www.ft.com/content/864c.... It remains legend. Quite a lot has happened over the subsequent decade so we sent him back in. as.ft.com/r/edeac2c6-0...
The irrepressible Nigel Farage
[FREE TO READ] Ten years after they first had lunch together, ‘the Brexit guy’ tells Henry Mance why the country needs his help once again
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And this look inside Telegram and Pavel Durov's world by @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social and Adrienne Klasa is also fab. as.ft.com/r/19adf82c-6...
Telegram, Pavel Durov and the shaky future for tech’s libertarian princelings
[FREE TO READ] The messaging app’s founder has become a poster boy for the backlash in Europe over CEO accountability — and a target for Russia
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