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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.
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    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Spoiler or no spoiler? It’s a tangled etiquette

      Knowing how a story ends can sometimes increase our enjoyment of it — but not for everyone

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      We should stop worshipping at the altar of convenience

      It is precisely the inconvenient stuff that gives life meaning and richness

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Mental health
      Why we should not be so anxious about anxiety

      Some psychologists think we talk about the emotion in the wrong way

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      US society
      American mockery of Britain masks a deeper insecurity

      Laughing at us from across the Atlantic does not make problems at home go away

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Twitter Inc
      Has Twitter discovered a better way of correcting online falsehoods?

      The strength of the platform’s Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Digital currencies
      Using crypto for crime is not a bug — it’s an industry feature

      Despite last year’s market downturn, it was a record period for crypto-based illicit transactions

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
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      The silent retreat where the fashion world finds inner peace

      After the consumerist whirl of Paris Fashion Week, models, influencers and creatives decamp to a Loire Valley château for a dose of asceticism and abstinence

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Joe Biden
      Joe Biden’s Irish identity is no less real than anyone else’s

      The US president was unfairly derided by UK commentators on his recent trip to Ireland

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      UK universities
      In defence of Oxbridge

      Do we really want to turn getting a good education into something that people should feel embarrassed about?

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Media
      Fox News’ populist mask has slipped

      The channel’s image as defender of the people against the elite has unravelled during a defamation case

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
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      The former New York Times columnist on free speech, Elon Musk’s Twitter Files and moving on from the culture wars

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
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      Beware the ‘sensible’ crypto crowd — they’re worse than the fanatics

      The strait-laced, earnest types threaten to legitimise a high-risk, opaque and ill-understood industry

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Management
      Why ‘mattering’ in the workplace doesn’t really matter

      The new buzzword will do little to make employees feel more valued

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Media
      You don’t restore trust in the media by abandoning objectivity

      In the current political climate we need to double down on fundamental journalistic principles, not surrender them

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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      Elon Musk’s Twitter is dying a slow and tedious death

      The social media platform is becoming much less interesting

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK society
      We need to bring back the art of not doing stuff

      With Lent comes the opportunity to write a ‘to don’t’ list

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
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      Whatever happened to the metaverse?

      Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
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      We need to bring honour back

      The concept has great value in a society obsessed with virtue signalling

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      The Big Read
      Can the pioneer of blockchain gaming survive the crypto winter?

      Yat Siu has become the pre-eminent investor in this hyped field. But as well as the slump in crypto assets, he faces questions from regulators

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      The clowns of cryptoland haven’t given up

      Making money out of failure is morally bankrupt

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      National Health Service
      The NHS is not just in crisis, it’s in an emergency

      Living in a constant state of calamity has made us strangely laid back about the service’s breakdown

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Managing yourself
      We should enter the new year with a beginner’s mind

      Holding fast to established categories or concepts can end up clouding our vision

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      Books
      Why we should all be reading more fiction

      If you want a nuanced worldview, reach for that novel

    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      What this year in crypto has taught us

      Saying I told you so is not much use, but the market implosion holds some real lessons

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Elon Musk
      Elon Musk’s lib-trolling is backfiring

      The Twitter owner is positioning himself as a member of the ‘anti-woke’ tribe

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