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Jenny Kleeman

@jennykleeman.bsky.social

Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @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 · 5d ago

How can the NHS Trust who employed Neil Hopper be so sure that he posed absolutely no risk the people in his care? I spoke to some of his patients www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...

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Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social · 3w ago

Texas lawyer Mark Lanier is taking on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other social media and winning, specifically over the harm they’re doing to children. “The child who’s addicted to social media can easily become addicted to pornography, sex, gambling, pills.” Story by @jennykleeman.bsky.social

‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...

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Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Politicians will never hold these people accountable. The only thing they fear is a jury.” I had an extraordinary conversation with Mark Lanier, the lawyer who took on Google and Meta and won. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...

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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This excellent piece by @jennykleeman.bsky.social on 30 year old entrepreneur Cathy Tie who is keen on modifying human embryos has a red flag in almost every line! Just to pick out a few 🧵 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies

The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...

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Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Gene editing has the power to alter the trajectory of human evolution for ever. The direction it takes will depend on who wields the editing tools. In today’s Guardian, I meet Cathy Tie

‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies

The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...

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Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What makes a twin? Is it sharing a birthdate? Sharing a womb? Sharing parallel lives? Series 3 of my BBC Radio 4 series, The Gift launches today with Lavinia and Michelle’s extraordinary story. All six episodes are on BBC Sounds now. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads

When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK

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Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote about Karen Newton, a retired grandmother from Hertfordshire. who was locked up for six weeks in an ICE detention facility - even though she had a valid US visa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bruce is one of the most interesting people I spoke to in the reporting of Sex Robots and Vegan Meat. He has a book out this week on the future of meat which is eloquent and urgent and takes in everything from Robin Williams to The Simpsons. If you liked him in my book, you should read his

Bruce Friedrich@brucefriedrich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICYMI, a lovely 2-page spread in yesterday's @theguardian.com about my new book Meat, which goes on sale Tuesday. - full story: tinyurl.com/bdzn2ywr - order the book: meatbook.org Many thanks to reporter @dpcarrington.bsky.social for capturing the book so well. 1/5

Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don’t understand why I’ve got so many new followers over the weekend. Is it because X is so appalling and more people are coming here now? Am I in a new starter pack? Is it because my big new podcast is out next week? Is it because I was Ed Winters’ podcast? Let me know. I am flummoxed.