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Jemima Kelly

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Jemima writes a weekly column on a range of subjects, from culture wars to crypto, as well as features, and sometimes hosts podcasts. She previously wrote for Alphaville, the FT’s markets and finance blog. Before joining the FT, she was a reporter at Reuters.
Email Jemima Kelly @jemimajoanna  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Transport
    How I learnt to stop worrying and (mostly) love the e-bike

    Unsightly kerbside debris to some, eco-friendly cycles for hire have improved urban journeys

    Illustration of a Lime bike rider
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The farce that is America’s ‘crypto election’

    This campaign may be awash with crypto money and rhetoric but it’s not clear that either of the candidates really care

    Illustration of a ballot box and voting slip surrounded by coins
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Bluesky
    With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

    The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

    Illustration of blue butterflies, the Bluesky logo, fluttering inside a bell jar
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Opinion
    Embarrassment, what is it good for?

    The feeling may be superficial but that doesn’t make it any less agonising

    Ben Hickey illustration of a tomato holding hands on its face in embarrassment.
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    US politics & policy
    We must not allow free speech to become a partisan issue

    Repelled by the characters of those who decry censorship, we fail to value rights that are fundamental to liberal democracy

    Ben Hickey illustration of a bubble speech wrapped up with a thorny green ivy.
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Why does calling Trump ‘weird’ hurt him so much?

    Democrats are beating the former US president at his own game

    Ben Hickey illustration of a giant word ‘Weird’ chasing Donald Trump.
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Behavioural economics
    Why do we find it so hard to accept coincidences for what they are?

    Apparently meaningful relations between events get us hunting for causation in vain

    Illustration of sixes on two red dice with the top two dots of each as eyes looking suspiciously at each other
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The US college campus where there are no culture wars

    The college in the Californian desert where cowboys are in and campus culture wars are out

    A young man shirtless, but with his shirt wrapped around his head, standing over a pile of weed branches and leaves in a field, with a tractor in the background
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The culture wars have flipped

    The critics of cancel culture and echo chambers have turned into an intolerant tribe of their own

    A man with arms raised, wearing a red, beetle-like costume
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Vance shows that impersonating Trump is not that easy

    The former president’s running mate lacks charisma, charm and a sense of humour

    Ben Hickey illustration of JD Vance looking at the mirror seeing Trump on the other side.
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Private wealth
    Stop worshipping at the feet of the wealthy

    Reactions to the Ambani wedding show we have lost our distaste for fortunes on extravagant display

    Ben Hickey illustration of many fingers pointing to a human figure with sack of money next to him.
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Melania Trump really doesn’t care, do u?

    America’s former and probably future First Lady fears neither the faux pas nor her husband

    A couple stand together. He is earing a suit with a blue tie. She is wearing a pink dress with coloured detail around the sleeve and hemline
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Mental health
    If you really want to relax, put that phone down

    The dopamine hit of smartphones, described as the modern-day hypodermic needle, is not the same as switching off

    Illustration of a stickman carrying a big smartphone on his back
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The Biden debacle must spell the end of short-termist politics

    If democracy is at stake in the Trump-Biden election, shouldn’t voters be trusted to make their own decision?

    Illustration of two ladders, one red with evenly spaced rungs, the other blue with all the rungs bunched up at the bottom
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Crypto lobbyists are polluting the US election

    Three years after saying bitcoin seems like a scam, Donald Trump appears newly enamoured

    Ben Hickey illustration of an orange and yellow ballot box with a bitcoin put through the top as a vote
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Travel
    A ‘treehouse adventure for grown-ups’ in the Loire Valley

    Key notes | Deep in private woodland, yet only two hours from Paris, the hotel offers fine food, forest baths and ‘le slow-living’

    A table and two chairs on a wooden floor, by floor-to-ceiling windows with a view of trees in leaf
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Property sector
    Lord of Sark looks to float chunk of island with deal for Barclay estate

    Hereditary seigneur and German entrepreneur aim to buy and list 20% of the Channel Island along with properties

    View of island of Sark
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Financials
    The Barclay heir battling bankruptcy, the Seigneur, and the Sark IPO

    Want a slice of the Barclay Brothers’ empire? You might just be able to have it, thanks to a kooky German investor

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Wellbeing and fitness
    Why our brains crave beauty, art and nature

    Neuroaesthetics suggest that engagement with such phenomena is essential, rather than a ‘nice to have’

    Ben Hickey illustration of a painting palette with different colours on it.
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Technology
    How to avoid being a voice note bore

    Self-indulgence is acceptable but don’t whine, don’t argue and stay off the group chat

    Ben Hickey illustration of a figure holding a mobile phone at an arm stretch distance with sound wave coming out of it towards him.
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    UK politics
    The weaponisation of ‘common sense’

    A recent furore over rainbow lanyards demonstrates the absurdity of the way the phrase is being used

    Two opposing groups of silhouetted figures shaking their fists at each other
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    Marjorie Taylor Greene
    Is Marjorie Taylor Greene too Maga for Trump?

    The rightwing congresswoman from Georgia seems to have outlived her usefulness to the former president

    A female cartoon figure wears a red baseball cap that has a very long peak that puts distance between her a cartoon Donald Trump wearing a normal size red Maga cap
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Musk shows us that moral binaries are of little use

    Working out wrong from right is not as easy as many people think

    Ben Hickey illustration of a giant black hand pulling out white paper people figures out of dustbin.
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Is Donald Trump a style icon?

    The former president’s personal brand is a crucial part of his accessible appeal

    Ben Hickey illustration of Donald Trump walking down the line of a fashion show, wearing his navy suit, red cap and red - fly away tie.
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Japanese society
    Sakura season and the art of savouring

    The beauty of cherry blossoms lies in their ephemerality — a hard thing for modern mankind to grasp

    Ben Hickey illustration of a person sitting under a tree with a pink canopy, its pink blossoms falling on the ground.
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