I thought this needed wider circulation now we’re in August. H/T to @thelocalfrance.bsky.social @emmapearson.bsky.social
Jemima Kelly
@jemima.bsky.social
Financial Times columnist and writer. 👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
For this week's column, I wrote about Polanskigate and the fraying of the taboo around political violence as.ft.com/r/d4a1a004-2...
Don’t pretend jokes can’t lead to political violence
The taboo around political violence is fraying — but restricting speech is not the answer
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Can JD Vance square his Catholicism with Trump's Republican Party? My column in the Friday Financial Times.
Can Vance square his Catholicism with Trump’s Republican Party?
The vice-president’s new book criticises the hypocrisy of the old religious right
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Martin Wolf's unimprovable answer when asked to identify "The summer that changed me" www.ft.com/content/d529...
I wrote about the summer I had just turned 16 and I formed my first girl band, Urban Clique, in the seaside town of Aldeburgh (yes, yes, I know). The illustrator absolutely nailed it 😅 Read about it and other FT writers' life-changing summers here! as.ft.com/r/fbe4fa1e-c... (🎁)
An amazing chart showing how much wealth inequality in Britain has *fallen* over the past century - taken from this Quillette piece on Channel 4's failure to fact-check the whole premise of its Gary Stevenson documentary. quillette.com/2026/07/14/g...
*Greatly* enjoyed this quietly devastating review of Vance's book on Catholicism "At one point, he describes himself attending “a Mass mourning Christ’s passion,” a phrase so theologically defective that it could be the subject of an entire ecumenical council." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
J. D. Vance’s New Book Wasn’t Meant to Be Read
Why does "Communion" exist?
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🛸👽✨🔮🪄The latest instalment of my Adventures in Woo Woo just dropped! This time I transported myself to a sound bath in the Californian desert designed by... a 700-year-old Venusian Read it for free here or in this weekend's HTSI 🛸👽✨🔮🪄 www.ft.com/content/3a47...
Jemima Kelly seeks peace at an alien sound bath
California’s The Integratron was inspired by extraterrestrials – now it’s promising out-of-this-world experiences
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There is a tendency to look back at the pre-Trump era — a time when US politics appeared to be generally functioning and mostly sane — and long for its return. But was it really so great? Read @jemima.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Z4xvwhp
@alanbeattie.bsky.social nails a bugbear of mine: we northerners all view each other with *deep* suspicion. There is no unified "north", it's just bollocks. We can't even agree where it is. All hail the King of the North! But which north? - as.ft.com/r/72b902cb-a...
All hail the King of the North! But which north?
Andy Burnham’s fantasy realm will fall apart if it’s allowed contact with messy geographical reality
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Enjoyed going on Prof G Markets to explain, once again, why bitcoin is worth - and is ultimately going to - $0,000,000 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lat2... (from 12:53)
OpenAI Hits Pause On Its IPO
YouTube video by Prof G Markets
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It says something bad that I read about this comic character, not in the NYT, but the FT. I think the "liberal" media in the US feel disabled from reporting on Trump accurately. The truth is so comically awful that they can't say it outloud.
Jemima Kelly@jemima.bsky.social · last mo.OMG. So in November 2022, when I was at a party at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Trump running again for president (yes), I met this guy who I described thusly... WHO IT TURNS OUT HE IS THE GUY TRUMP HIRED TO CLEAN UP THE REFLECTING POOL, CEO of the company that owns "Green Water Solutions" I am dying 🤣
This pool story is truly sustaining me through this heat I'm impressed Trump knew that the "crazy (likely paid) pro-algae protesters" were referencing a postwar German poem
OMG. So in November 2022, when I was at a party at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Trump running again for president (yes), I met this guy who I described thusly... WHO IT TURNS OUT HE IS THE GUY TRUMP HIRED TO CLEAN UP THE REFLECTING POOL, CEO of the company that owns "Green Water Solutions" I am dying 🤣
Elon Musk says his political views would have been considered normal in 1995, but political discourse has moved so far left that he now appears to be far right. @jemima.bsky.social will have none of it and, as a Reagan Republican (though now Independent), neither will I: www.ft.com/content/313f...
Sorry, Elon, the far right is still the far right
And on some issues, it’s further to the right than before
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#FT @jemima.bsky.social is correctly identifying a recent normalization of more nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-feminist, and anti-liberal tendencies on the right, chart @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/313f...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Sorry, Elon, the far right is still the far right - good straightforward facts here from @jemima.bsky.social
Sorry, Elon, the far right is still the far right
And on some issues, it’s further to the right than before
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Happy birthday, Mr President! This week’s column, with another banger of an illustration by Ben Hickey: as.ft.com/r/4d38eadf-e... Trump’s many unhappy returns (🎁)
Trump’s many unhappy returns
No kings. No The Rock. No gratitude.
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Molly's crypto criticism has always been absolutely top notch and this relaunched site looks like it will be an excellent and important resource in the run up to the 2028 elections
Molly White@molly.wiki · 2mo agoI've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news
This week's column: the joy-depriving, whole-point-missing, neverending drive to OpTiMiSe as.ft.com/r/9c0f3285-9... (🎁)
We are optimising ourselves to death
A tracker might tell you that you got to bed too late, but it doesn’t tell you that you were busy living your life
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I visited Scotland's most expensive hotel because, well, someone had to 😶🌫️ A very special place, honestly. And the price (doubles from £1550 a night) is of course v high as commenters are noting but does include food I would pay a lot for, booze & all activities/equipment as.ft.com/r/5e0bc764-0...
The remote shooting lodge reborn as Scotland’s most expensive hotel
In the country’s far north, the 159-year-old Hope Lodge now promises ‘curated escapism’ and ‘untamed luxury’
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And their social events were often a lot more effort-heavy. Dinner parties* for sure, sometimes those safari ones where you go to everyone’s house for a course. Sometimes full on house parties that took ages to clean up the next day. * I’m obsessed with @jemima.bsky.social’s article about this
Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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There can only be one President Donald Trump, forever-The president seems to have little respect for his children’s brainpower — his eldest in particular, whom he reportedly once described as “not the sharpest knife in the drawer”. www.ft.com/content/ca3d... @jemima.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
There can only be one President Donald Trump, forever
By snubbing his son’s wedding he seemed intent on making sure Don Jr knows his place
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For this week's sunny Bank Holiday column, I wrote about spiralling. In a good way. as.ft.com/r/27147ff1-0... (🎁)
If you’re in a spiral, you’re doing it right
What if, despite all your mistakes, you were actually getting somewhere but in a slightly more roundabout way?
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Inside the White House’s most inscrutable marriage. (No not that one) ft.trib.al/OY6Tm0a #FTEdit
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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Inside the White House’s most inscrutable marriage. (No not that one) - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... superb long read from @jemima.bsky.social but omg it leaves an ugly taste in your mouth: so many vulnerable people being victim to this uncompromising hatred
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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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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