This week's column, on Mamdani and... Martha Stewart on.ft.com/43keph9 (gift link)

You’re up @bhgreeley.bsky.social

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Reminds me of the recent GB News “documentary” on the “Yookay”, that billed itself as a “deep dive” into uncontrolled mass immigration but was actually just interviews with drill musicians and other black British people (on.ft.com/4onWiiP)

For this week's column I wrote about Grokipedia, a site that fails so badly in its mission to be more truthful and neutral than Wikipedia that even @grok itself says it instead creates a "centralised ‘Musk’s truth’ filter" on.ft.com/3WCIcxJ [gift link 🎁]

Jemima Kelly ( @jemima.bsky.social ) nails it to the door: www.ft.com/content/5ada...

Civil war is inevitable, was inevitable, and is already happening

AI is killing the magic on.ft.com/4oNBUaL #FTEdit

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

This article (£) is as insightful as concerning "What I see is a disillusioned generation, doubtful that liberal democracy can do anything worthwhile. We need some new, fresh thinking — as well as a free and open environment in which to test, debate and challenge it — to prove it still can."

The presidential walk of fame tho 🤣

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fml

Quite stunned and very thrilled to have been shortlisted for Commentator of the Year at the Media Freedom Awards ! www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...

This was so fun and I'm v honoured to have made a second appearance on one of my fave podcasts!

For this week's column I wrote about the way that the countercultural intellectual energy of the right - and lack thereof on the left - is drawing in young people, esp men, who would once have been drawn to radical leftist thinkers on.ft.com/3L72ug5

Personally I give them the time of day because, whether they are spewing bollocks or not, they are having a direct and major influence on US politics and therefore world politics. I would have thought that was quite important

"Exploiting regulatory loopholes and bypassing national controls is the name of the game" with crypto. "Crypto has never been about innovation, but about getting away with things you would not otherwise be able to." Nice to hear someone else say it! @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dbd0...

The Godfather of the Dark Enlightenment / JD Vance whisperer Curtis Yarvin is back to thinking that Trump 2.0 is a failure and is considering fleeing America in the near future. I wonder where he'll head 🥴 graymirror.substack.com/p/you-cant-h...

@jemima.bsky.social on crypto dealings by politicians such as the Trumps and the move by Nigel Farage's Reform party to accept political donations in crypto www.ft.com/content/dbd0...

And here is the most striking one - discrimination in favour of (zero) or against (ten) white British people. Look at Reform voters. Absolutely clustering around SEVEN on this scale. Tories are on five and everyone else five or lower. So, here at least is something all Reform voters agree on. 11/n

Want some truly good news?! Solar energy is booming like never before! Several countries have already doubled their solar capacity in 2025 alone (including China! 🤯☀️) Me for @prospectmagazine.co.uk feat. @billmckibben.bsky.social & @ember-energy.org www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

The FT Edit editor's favourite story today? Jemima Kelly joining a witches’ coven: on.ft.com/4nh2LLR 📧 Sign up to the FT Edit newsletter for our daily top pick: on.ft.com/44K0XEi

“Do you really cast bad spells on people?” I ask Aspinall. “Yes, of course I do. I call it justice,” she replies sassily. “Like, if someone kidnapped, raped and killed my sister, I’d not only hex them. I’d hex their whole family under a dark moon. Fuck. That. Shit.” Thanks for @jemima.bsky.social.

“The problem is if you cannibalise too many from your own tribe, you end up running out of members.” Spot-on piece by @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/80f0...

LOVE @jemima.bsky.social’s latest adventures in woo woo.

Lord Glasman, who Curtis Yarvin told me was a "charming fellow", is now calling Yarvin a "wanker" in the Byline Times and disputing Yarvin's claim that they hung out the night before I met him in June bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

CURTFISHING www.astralcodexten.com/p/sources-sa... (on.ft.com/3KoF59G)

I very much doubt you'll see a pic that goes as hard as this all day (unless the Rapture does actually happen) Great piece too, all my best to the Sisters of the Sanitary Cloth 😘

‘Potus, in full manuka honey-hued visibility, appeared thrilled with the spectacle in his honour.’ — @jemima.bsky.social, in today’s @financialtimes.com, captures the Trumpery in Windsor.

I went to a witches festival near Coventry and wrote about it for my latest instalment of "Adventures in Woo Woo" 🧙‍♀️💫🔮🧹 In this weekend's HTSI and online today on.ft.com/46WszWP

Cold press. AeroPress. Iced. Or simply black and strong. The FT's coffee geeks are ready to confess: Martin Wolf, Jemima Kelly, Robert Smith, Pilita Clark and many others are firmly under the spell of speciality coffee.⁠ ⁠ ⁠What about you? What's your coffee passion? on.ft.com/4nkeQ32 ⁠

@jemima.bsky.social delivers a wicked column. Donald Trump's adventures in Windsorland on.ft.com/4nbU45u

Iconic

"Trump namechecked Shakespeare, Dickens, Orwell — authors whose works he has undoubtedly devoured." @jemima.bsky.social on the US president's adventures in Windsorland on.ft.com/4nbU45u

"The first ever second state visit for an elected leader who claims a third presidential election win started off with a bang on Tuesday night, when Donald Trump landed at London’s fourth most glamorous airport." @jemima.bsky.social on sublime form on.ft.com/41XZUih

Aber-baijan does have q a nice ring to it

"Arguably" is arguably doing a lot of work here The totally impartial and ever giant-brained Eric Trump on how crypto will make the dollar great again: www.ft.com/content/0d40...

Beyond belief. Downing Street pandering to Trump by literally shutting down UK free speech. Shame on the government for its spinelessness. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Quite amusing to think of Trump in his grand Windsor bedroom suite posting this after putting on all his presidential airs for Charles and being stuffed with organic Norfolk chicken ballotine and quail egg salad

Utterly insane decision by ABC/Disney

Ever wanted to have your very own Lunch with the FT? WELL I'm honoured/mortified to announce I'm being auctioned off in the @financialtimes.com Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign and you can bid for lunch with me here! ft.com/auction #FTCharityLunchAuction #pickme www.ft.com/content/2179...

The Economist graph looks terrible at first glance and indeed it is bad, but it's also worth pointing out that even in this poll Trump still has 39% saying they approve, and his national polling average is relatively steady at 46% approval (per RCP www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...)

V excited to watch this next week

Some amusing stuff in this dispatch from the FT Weekend Festival, but amazing how sloppy the writing / subbing is. Manages to misspell Roula Khalaf's name two different ways! thecritic.co.uk/britains-eli...

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

I learned from @jemima.bsky.social’s article today that the Rose Garden paved over by Trump is where he shouted at the boy mowing. Which leads me to conclude he paved it because that became a funny meme at his expense and he’s thin-skinned. Article here: on.ft.com/4mOd3Tl

My column in today’s FT Edit which by the way gives you 8 of the best FT stories every day for £4.99 / $4.99 a month IT’S A BLOODY STEAL

Farage is apparently speaking to Congress in his capacity as a spokesman for GB News.