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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, 8 December, 2024
    Democratic Party US
    Democrats must not abandon their morals

    Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter invites comparison to Donald Trump’s most censured actions

    Ben Hickey illustration of a blue donkey climbing up a blue line on a graph, while a red elephant is walking on a downward-sloping red line
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    The grim ghost of crypto future

    Overconfidence since the election victory of Donald Trump could tee the sector up for its next collapse

    Ben Hickey illustration of a bitcoin sign on a bomb with a lit fuse
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Travel
    On the crest of South Korea’s tourism wave

    From kimchi to K-pop and ‘Squid Game’, the country’s cultural exports are drawing a surge of visitors

    People in traditional Korean costume taking selfies under trees heavy with cherry blossom
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The Trump vibe shift was there for all to see

    Voters didn’t enter the polling booths holding their noses; they went in with their eyes wide open

    Ben Hickey illustration of Donald Trump in his suit and red tie, running with his arms wide open as he breaks past the finish line
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Working It21 min listen
    What I wish I’d known when I started my career

    Isabel and colleagues share workplace advice they wish they’d known earlier

  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Why attacking Trump’s character has proved so ineffective

    Moral grandstanding is not the best way to convince people to come over to your side

    Ben Hickey illustration of a ‘Trump duck’ splashed with drops of water.
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Personal productivity
    If you’re going to multitask, do it mindfully

    Doing more than one thing at once can feel overwhelming — but it can also be liberating

    Ben Hickey illustration of a witch stirring a cauldron while looking at a laptop and books floating around her head
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The power and the perils of Trump’s ‘flow state’

    The former president’s latest town hall was a spectacle even by the standards of modern American politics

    Illustration of Donald Trump in front of a speaker’s lectern, standing on a surfboard, balancing on the crest of a wave. He is wearing a blue suit and a red tie that the wind is blowing behind him.
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Digital Media
    News avoiders relinquish their democratic privilege 

    Our fractured, algorithm-driven attention economy is all too easily exploited when people aren’t paying attention

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a smiley being hit over the head by a rolled newspaper.
  • 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
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