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Jemima Kelly

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Columnist and feature writer at the Financial Times. 👩🏼‍💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly Probably at a Stoke Newington drinks party.

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · Aug 9

I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.

My cover story for today’s FT Magazine

on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right

[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not sure what benefit studying them from a distance as opposed to up close has though - I would have thought you get a clearer picture up close, can challenge them etc? Plus I don’t think it works like that any more - old powers that be eg media don’t decide who gets influence in the “DYOR” era

Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 10h

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 10h

Tbh still not following 😅 but that might be because it's 11.30pm on a Sunday night and far past my bedtime 🌚

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 10h

What's switched back? And which thinkers on the left do you think are getting young men under the age of about 21 excited/inspired?

Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 10h

Sorry I'm not quite following - what's not like the thinking behind the new right? I'm not suggesting that people like Yarvin are Great Thinkers, to be clear - let alone, in descending order, Thiel or bloody Andreessen

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 11h

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

The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right

The intellectual energy of new rightwing movements is drawing in young people

on.ft.com

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 11h

I guess it's only interesting IF they're having an influence though? There are plenty of bizarre thinkers in the world, but nobody is talking about the ones who aren't having an impact

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 11h

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

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 13h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 11h

If you want some detail see here, for instance, from 2008 which contains a lot of ideas that you can see in Trump 2.0 / MAGA / the right in 2025 keithanyan.github.io/OpenLetterTo...

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 11h

Much of it is certainly weird and incoherent but that doesn't mean it's not having real influence or not worth writing about. Vance has explicitly cited Yarvin as an influence and knows him, Musk "consulted" him on his new party idea, obv Trump is not reading any of it but the people around him are

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Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · 5d

"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...

Crypto skulduggery isn’t a bug, it’s the whole point

Exploiting regulatory loopholes is the name of the game

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 5d

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 6d

V much on board

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 7d

@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...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 11d

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 great 2025 solar boom

One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 19d

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

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 13d

"Grandeur of democracy" is an interesting phrase... I kind of like it but I don't think democracy necessarily has to be quite so chaotic does it? Or perhaps not quite so unwilling to find some unity while still allowing for a range of different views?

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Andrew Carrier 🍸 @andrewcarrier.com · 14d

“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.

Jemima Kelly: why I joined a witches’ coven

HTSI’s alternative wellness columnist celebrates the joy of hex

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 14d

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David Garten @davidgarten.bsky.social · 14d

“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...

The right and the art of putting on a united front

In spite of bitter divisions, Trump’s Maga coalition always rallies round when it needs to

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14d

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

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14d

Jemima Kelly on why she joined a witches’ coven: on.ft.com/3IKpxN5

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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 14d

THANKS Robin!