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.

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...

open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr... I was interviewed by @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social - a very good interviewer

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

open.substack.com/pub/jennykle... Worth revisiting this one today. I knew Suella before she was Braverman

I wrote this, about how 33,000 people had their most intimate secrets stolen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you’ve ever typed anything you thought was private into a computer or phone, you need to hear the story of what happened to 33,000 therapy patients in Finland open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

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.

Want to read more books in 2026? Why not start with The Price of Life, which, it turns out, is incredibly cheap. A steal at 99p for the month of January amzn.eu/d/eum0IkG

Want to read more books in 2026? Why not start with The Price of Life, which, it turns out, is incredibly cheap. A steal at 99p for the month of January amzn.eu/d/eum0IkG

Verdict: only a hint of grapefruit. An afterthought. A suggestion. Orange would have been a better suggestion.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Dropbox is down. Substack is down. And Downdetector seems to be down. Or is it just me?

The latest @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social has been spewn forth including fine contributions from #squiggleking @songicartoons.bsky.social @chicanepictures.bsky.social @deancartoons.bsky.social @jennykleeman.bsky.social & my latest...ahem...technology report🖋 Get it here issuu.com/thenewcartoo...

Absolutely delighted to have won the FPA Media Award for Print & Web Story of the Year 2025. It’s for a piece I wrote for the FT Magazine on how Israeli is turning its dead soldiers into fathers. Read it free with this link on.ft.com/486WawY

Dozens of female prisons officers have been sacked for having sex with male inmates. At least 10 were convicted this year following affairs with prisoners. This is a systemic problem within our prison service. So grateful to Cherrie for trusting me with her story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Dozens of female prisons officers have been sacked for having sex with male inmates. At least 10 were convicted this year following affairs with prisoners. This is a systemic problem within our prison service. So grateful to Cherrie for trusting me with her story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Every so often you do an interview and the person is so eloquent and brilliant and you are flooded with the juice of it all and feel incredibly privileged to be a journalist.

On Lifestyles with Selina MacKenzie from 14.00CET - Emmi Salonen with 'The Creative Wellbeing Handbook: How to fuel creativity, find balance and stay inspired', Kate McIntosh's 'How to Add Flavour', and @jennykleeman.bsky.social on 'The Price of Life'

I wrote this, about the worst thing that ever happened to me, and now I chose to deal with it www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

My Christmas cakes have been in the oven nearly three hours. Just tried to make juice from the oranges I have zested. Cut them open and realised the oranges are actually grapefruits. Have I ruined Christmas?

Thought for The Day is about Six Seven. It’s officially over, guys!

Oh D’Angelo! I loved him.

Never one to make a fuss of it but TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY and I’m doing it like Ferris Bueller’s day off. There have been Giacomettis and an Indian head massage and now a bubble bath and life is VERY GOOD.

Spent much of today reading this extraordinary, harrowing piece. Everyone should read it

After going to great lengths to keep my fussy calathea houseplant alive over the past four years, it finally died. I left the pot of earth outside. Five weeks later, two huge new leaves have sprouted from the pot I have completely ignored and it’s a living rebuke of my love and care, I tell you.

"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." With Animal Farm turning 80, we asked some friends of the Foundation to share their first encounters. Our thanks (and an extra helping of apples) to all who took part! orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/it-all-mad...

Our lead researcher @aldersonday.bsky.social joins @jennykleeman.bsky.social and Emily Postan to talk about mental health and the use of digital technologies like AI for treatment. In this shifting landscape, what considerations and safeguards are needed to embed these treatments in the mainstream?

How to write a Sunday Times Bestseller? Get 635 people to buy your book open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

There are few things more exciting than seeing your book in another language, translated into another writing system, and imagining it being read on the other side of the world.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... I wrote about the death of Naina Mishra, and what happens when family estrangement and mental illness combine. What do we owe to vulnerable young adults who want to be left alone?

I’ll be reviewing tomorrow’s newspapers on #skypapers tonight from 10.30pm on Sky News with @jennykleeman.bsky.social, very much the Batman to my Robin.

I have just been sent an email trying to get me to buy an advent calendar. We are nearing permachristmas.

Feel very lucky to own a sample of Becky Burke’s forthcoming comic about her 19 days of incarceration in an immigration detention centre in the USA. I wrote about Becky in April for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Important news for anyone who listens to BBC podcasts outside the UK www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

A good resource for freelancers. @atavist.com isn't on the list (yet?) but for reference, we pay at minimum $6,000 per story, plus royalties based on traffic. www.freelancingwithtim.com/p/freelance-...

Totally had enough of Oasis and they haven’t even played a note yet

Here is someone wearing white gloves leafing through the complex Chinese version of The Price of Life. Haven’t got my hands in a copy yet… www.youtube.com/shorts/2uvd9...

This is the face of an extremely surprised and very chuffed person. Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga @orwellprize.bsky.social

Totally bowled over by this.

Booking is open for the Edinburgh International Book Festival! Am doing two events: The Price of Life with @profdevisridhar.bsky.social, and mental health in the digital age with @aldersonday.bsky.social and Emily Postan. Excited to be in such great company www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

I miss Prince.

The magnifying mirror section in John Lewis is compelling and horrifying

The Price of Life by @jennykleeman.bsky.social is sooooo good that I'm telling everyone about it despite my rampant envy of both the idea and the skill with which it's executed. In fact, look, here I am doing just that! Nothing if not magnanimous, me. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jenn...

"So many people have taken these DNA tests that the age of genetic anonymity is over". Quote from @jennykleeman.bsky.social on radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... on podcasting family histories. I skipped back to make sure I got it right as it is exactly my thinking. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

The latest Little Red Notebook is about how I found pictures of myself on a porn site open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

The latest Little Red Notebook is about how I found pictures of myself on a porn site open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

Blackadder is FORTY years old. How can this be?