Emma Haslett
@emmahaslett.bsky.social
Big city journalist in a small town. Covering business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: BBC, Observer, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
My kids would 100% vote Reform just to piss me off.
I sometimes think we have it backwards. We shouldn't have a minimum age to vote; we should have a maximum one. no one over 21 gets a vote. Kids never overcomplicate fairness.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My kids would 100% vote Reform just to piss me off.
This is a beautiful story but sometimes my 6 yr old picks up a random pebble, looks her sister dead in the eye and says ‘mine’, and then there’s a huge fight about that one random, inconsequential pebble.
I’m not sure *all* kids have, as one comment suggests, ‘moral clarity’.
I’m not sure *all* kids have, as one comment suggests, ‘moral clarity’.
I’ve posted about this before but I’m reminded of how when I asked my kid when he was iirc 3 if we should keep or give away a toy he really liked and played with to a poor family in the county and he immediately replied the latter and said “some kids don’t have toys, and I don’t like that”, and it…
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is a beautiful story but sometimes my 6 yr old picks up a random pebble, looks her sister dead in the eye and says ‘mine’, and then there’s a huge fight about that one random, inconsequential pebble.
I’m not sure *all* kids have, as one comment suggests, ‘moral clarity’.
I’m not sure *all* kids have, as one comment suggests, ‘moral clarity’.
Biggish piece 1/3 filed. Haven't left the house since Tuesday evening. It's fine, I'm absolutely fine.
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Biggish piece 1/3 filed. Haven't left the house since Tuesday evening. It's fine, I'm absolutely fine.
The best place to store pumpkin pie is in the bin, along with pumpkin soup and also pumpkin spice (which admittedly has nothing to do with actual pumpkins, but is also gross).
I will not be taking questions.
I will not be taking questions.
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The best place to store pumpkin pie is in the bin, along with pumpkin soup and also pumpkin spice (which admittedly has nothing to do with actual pumpkins, but is also gross).
I will not be taking questions.
I will not be taking questions.
A fun thing about being a journalist in 2025 is finding a delicate way to say 'I don't do emailed responses because I keep getting sent AI slop' without it seeming like you are accusing the person you're speaking to of potentially sending you AI slop.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A fun thing about being a journalist in 2025 is finding a delicate way to say 'I don't do emailed responses because I keep getting sent AI slop' without it seeming like you are accusing the person you're speaking to of potentially sending you AI slop.
Reposted by Emma Haslett
UK Plans £303.7B of Gilt Sales This Fiscal Year; Est. £308.1B
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
UK Plans £303.7B of Gilt Sales This Fiscal Year; Est. £308.1B
Can we just take a moment for the fact that the speakers today are all women. Chancellor, deputy speaker, leader of the opposition.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Can we just take a moment for the fact that the speakers today are all women. Chancellor, deputy speaker, leader of the opposition.
£18m for playgrounds. It's not much but it's one of those small things that will measurably improve lives. There's nothing more depressing than a derelict playground.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
£18m for playgrounds. It's not much but it's one of those small things that will measurably improve lives. There's nothing more depressing than a derelict playground.
By far the best part of being freelance is not having to wait for the chancellor to finish before I can have lunch.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
By far the best part of being freelance is not having to wait for the chancellor to finish before I can have lunch.
Can the man who is braying STFU please.
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Can the man who is braying STFU please.
Chart in the OBR doc showing Labour's manifesto pledge to build 1.5m new homes and isn't going *brilliantly*.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Chart in the OBR doc showing Labour's manifesto pledge to build 1.5m new homes and isn't going *brilliantly*.
Well this is just the icing on the cake that is 2025, isn't it. Remember taking myself off to see him at Glastonbury while my friends were watching something bland like the Killers. The most glorious performance.
Jimmy Cliff: Jamaican reggae singer and actor dies
Jimmy Cliff: Jamaican reggae singer and actor dies
Jimmy Cliff, an artist who helped bring reggae to an international audience, has died aged 81.
news.sky.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Well this is just the icing on the cake that is 2025, isn't it. Remember taking myself off to see him at Glastonbury while my friends were watching something bland like the Killers. The most glorious performance.
I'm obsessed with Monash IVF, partly because it's one of the few listed fertility clinics, and partly because it keeps putting the wrong embryos in the wrong women, which seems like a basic thing to repeatedly screw up.
Anyway, shares are up 45% today after it rejected a $300m buyout offer 🤷♀️
Anyway, shares are up 45% today after it rejected a $300m buyout offer 🤷♀️
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm obsessed with Monash IVF, partly because it's one of the few listed fertility clinics, and partly because it keeps putting the wrong embryos in the wrong women, which seems like a basic thing to repeatedly screw up.
Anyway, shares are up 45% today after it rejected a $300m buyout offer 🤷♀️
Anyway, shares are up 45% today after it rejected a $300m buyout offer 🤷♀️
It’s Budget week so naturally my youngest has a full-blown fever.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s Budget week so naturally my youngest has a full-blown fever.
I’m in a returns queue at Zara. Opening a book on how many geological eras will pass before I succeed.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m in a returns queue at Zara. Opening a book on how many geological eras will pass before I succeed.
The nursery has just sent cute pictures of the kids making rice krispie squares and then all having a "cheeky lick of the spoon".
RIP my weekend.
RIP my weekend.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The nursery has just sent cute pictures of the kids making rice krispie squares and then all having a "cheeky lick of the spoon".
RIP my weekend.
RIP my weekend.
Just got an ad on Instagram for a company whose main marketing point is that it will prescribe you GLP-1 meds, even if your BMI is healthy. I honestly don't know what to say.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just got an ad on Instagram for a company whose main marketing point is that it will prescribe you GLP-1 meds, even if your BMI is healthy. I honestly don't know what to say.
'Can you put it in an email' is honestly the worst phrase in the English language.
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'Can you put it in an email' is honestly the worst phrase in the English language.
Cool idea! OR - and hear me out - we could feed the hungry?
Elon Musk said that Grokipedia will be etched in "microfont" onto stone and sent to Mars, the moon, and space, helping preserve humanity's knowledge.
Elon Musk wants to create a 'modern-day Library of Alexandria' — and send copies to deep space
Elon Musk said that Grokipedia will be etched in "microfont" onto stone and sent to Mars, the moon, and space, helping preserve humanity's knowledge.
www.businessinsider.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Cool idea! OR - and hear me out - we could feed the hungry?
"We are stuck in a compassion trap" is the new "empathy s the fundamental weakness of western civilisation". www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"We are stuck in a compassion trap" is the new "empathy s the fundamental weakness of western civilisation". www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Since June, Kent Council (Reform) has decided to just not bother paying an SEN school for its services, so the head has to sell his car and take out a personal loan to keep it going.
I'm sure some of those SEN teens are illegal immigrants, guys. You show 'em! www.kentcurrent.news/p/if-some-of...
I'm sure some of those SEN teens are illegal immigrants, guys. You show 'em! www.kentcurrent.news/p/if-some-of...
"If some of these kids weren’t here, they would be dead"
What we asked Brent Lewis, CEO of the FAR Academy
www.kentcurrent.news
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Since June, Kent Council (Reform) has decided to just not bother paying an SEN school for its services, so the head has to sell his car and take out a personal loan to keep it going.
I'm sure some of those SEN teens are illegal immigrants, guys. You show 'em! www.kentcurrent.news/p/if-some-of...
I'm sure some of those SEN teens are illegal immigrants, guys. You show 'em! www.kentcurrent.news/p/if-some-of...
Reposted by Emma Haslett
The flattening of structures is where the various drivers of Israel’s Gaza onslaught meet: ostensible military aims, a messianic ideology that wants Jewish settlement in the Strip, and the desire for revenge after 7th Oct
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The flattening of structures is where the various drivers of Israel’s Gaza onslaught meet: ostensible military aims, a messianic ideology that wants Jewish settlement in the Strip, and the desire for revenge after 7th Oct
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
A PR just said 'please stop calling us PRs. PR stands for public relations'.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A PR just said 'please stop calling us PRs. PR stands for public relations'.
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I can't stop thinking about Elon Musk and his $1 trillion. It's so... vulgar.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I can't stop thinking about Elon Musk and his $1 trillion. It's so... vulgar.