Cordelia Jenkins
@cordeliajenkins.bsky.social
Editor, FT Weekend Magazine
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Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends
@equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org
@equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org
Equator
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends
@equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org
@equatormag.bsky.social
www.equator.org
This is such a great read from the FT's @courtneyweaver.bsky.social and Laura Du Bois.... Enjoy. on.ft.com/4n8I2sF
An unlikely couple, a doomed affair and their €64mn ransomware scam
[FREE TO READ] How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation
on.ft.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is such a great read from the FT's @courtneyweaver.bsky.social and Laura Du Bois.... Enjoy. on.ft.com/4n8I2sF
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In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib
Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?
[FREE TO READ] Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left
on.ft.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib
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Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
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Had a few conversations recently that make me think, for the first time in ages, there are some exciting things happening in media. This is one of the highlights: Equator, a new magazine set up by Nesrine Malik, Pankaj Mishra, Jonathan Shainin and others. Sign up for info here: www.equator.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Had a few conversations recently that make me think, for the first time in ages, there are some exciting things happening in media. This is one of the highlights: Equator, a new magazine set up by Nesrine Malik, Pankaj Mishra, Jonathan Shainin and others. Sign up for info here: www.equator.org
I think this fascinating piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social is one of the best things we've published all year. Don't miss it! on.ft.com/48e4qwP
The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
[FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
on.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think this fascinating piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social is one of the best things we've published all year. Don't miss it! on.ft.com/48e4qwP
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Best read of the week
How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class - on.ft.com/4n1dSs7 by Leo Lewis of the FT
How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class - on.ft.com/4n1dSs7 by Leo Lewis of the FT
How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class
An aspirational generation of Chinese arrivals are beginning to shape Japan’s demographic, social and perhaps even political destiny
on.ft.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Best read of the week
How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class - on.ft.com/4n1dSs7 by Leo Lewis of the FT
How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class - on.ft.com/4n1dSs7 by Leo Lewis of the FT
Really happy to have this essay by @hzeavin.bsky.social in this weekend's magazine. I've been thinking about it non-stop for months. www.ft.com/content/a248...
The age of the distracted mother
There is a child. There is a phone. And there is an endless struggle with the bonds of love
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September 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Really happy to have this essay by @hzeavin.bsky.social in this weekend's magazine. I've been thinking about it non-stop for months. www.ft.com/content/a248...
This is so good...
jim sanborn has a secret, or, the nuance of iqlusion: on.ft.com/417RPqQ
Jim Sanborn has a secret
[FREE TO READ] The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
on.ft.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is so good...
This column by @okr.bsky.social has made me laugh a lot today... on.ft.com/45cFT8t
Why can’t I stop cleaning fake dirt off fake objects?
[FREE TO READ] In praise of ‘PowerWash Simulator’, part ponderous game, part dreamlike state
on.ft.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This column by @okr.bsky.social has made me laugh a lot today... on.ft.com/45cFT8t
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@christopherjm.ft.com is so far ahead of any other non-Ukrainian journalist on what is happening in that country
on.ft.com/414Z2b2
on.ft.com/414Z2b2
The polarising power of Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s other wartime leader
President Zelenskyy’s right-hand man is fuelling concerns over creeping authoritarianism
on.ft.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
@christopherjm.ft.com is so far ahead of any other non-Ukrainian journalist on what is happening in that country
on.ft.com/414Z2b2
on.ft.com/414Z2b2
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After my son was diagnosed with autism, I've been thinking about my own relationship to this strange, highly contentious condition. During a sabbatical this spring, I spoke to some experts about it. My essay based on all that has just gone online on FT.Com: on.ft.com/4kKdCfe
In search of a diagnosis
How my son’s autism assessment sent me on an investigation into my own past
on.ft.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
After my son was diagnosed with autism, I've been thinking about my own relationship to this strange, highly contentious condition. During a sabbatical this spring, I spoke to some experts about it. My essay based on all that has just gone online on FT.Com: on.ft.com/4kKdCfe
Very delighted to have this profile of the dauntless Wasfi Kani, the woman who sold country house opera to the English establishment by John Phipps in this week's magazine. Have a read! on.ft.com/40NVEBf
The inimitable queen of country house opera
[FREE TO READ] In the UK, summer productions in stately homes have helped keep the art form alive. For that you need donors and, for them, what you really need is Wasfi Kani
on.ft.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very delighted to have this profile of the dauntless Wasfi Kani, the woman who sold country house opera to the English establishment by John Phipps in this week's magazine. Have a read! on.ft.com/40NVEBf
The brilliant @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social has gotten to the bottom of Zuckerberg's macho makeover. I love this piece... on.ft.com/3TB0kq0
How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler
[FREE TO READ] The boss’s macho makeover shocked liberals at Meta, but his closest allies say this is who he was all along
on.ft.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The brilliant @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social has gotten to the bottom of Zuckerberg's macho makeover. I love this piece... on.ft.com/3TB0kq0
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Who’s in charge, me or the Devil? The agony and the ecstasy of elite darts
https://www.ft.com/content/9a28a3d9-a439-4109-a0fc-284c01af3f03
https://www.ft.com/content/9a28a3d9-a439-4109-a0fc-284c01af3f03
Who’s in charge, me or the Devil? The agony and the ecstasy of elite darts
Premier League Darts is making its top stars multimillionaires. Pressure to perform is intense
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June 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Who’s in charge, me or the Devil? The agony and the ecstasy of elite darts
https://www.ft.com/content/9a28a3d9-a439-4109-a0fc-284c01af3f03
https://www.ft.com/content/9a28a3d9-a439-4109-a0fc-284c01af3f03
Really happy to have @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the FT Magazine this weekend - with a great essay on what the '90s taught Donald Trump on.ft.com/458jISv
How the ’90s shaped Donald Trump’s politics of national despair
[FREE TO READ] The best way to understand Trump is to look at his brush with failure at this earlier moment of American crisis
on.ft.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Really happy to have @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the FT Magazine this weekend - with a great essay on what the '90s taught Donald Trump on.ft.com/458jISv
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I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
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May 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A brilliant and bizarre story here from @christopherkay.ft.com
💥Murder in Mumbai💥
My first @financialtimes.com magazine story on a shocking assassination, a jailed gang boss and the Bollywood icon entangled in a decades-long grudge rooted in wildlife crime.
👉 on.ft.com/3YRlPWN
Huge thanks to @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social for the stellar edit.
My first @financialtimes.com magazine story on a shocking assassination, a jailed gang boss and the Bollywood icon entangled in a decades-long grudge rooted in wildlife crime.
👉 on.ft.com/3YRlPWN
Huge thanks to @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social for the stellar edit.
How India’s most notorious gangster declared war on a Bollywood legend
[FREE TO READ] The tentacles of the Bishnoi gang reach from India to Canada
on.ft.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A brilliant and bizarre story here from @christopherkay.ft.com
“'When the history of the 20th century is written, circa 2100,' Thiel claims, Girard 'will be seen as truly one of the great intellectuals.'” Delighted to have this great essay in the magazine this weekend by @orlandoreade.bsky.social on.ft.com/3Z80Pew
How a little-known French literary critic became a bellwether for the US right
[FREE TO READ] René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans
on.ft.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“'When the history of the 20th century is written, circa 2100,' Thiel claims, Girard 'will be seen as truly one of the great intellectuals.'” Delighted to have this great essay in the magazine this weekend by @orlandoreade.bsky.social on.ft.com/3Z80Pew
Totally fascinating reporting from @davidkeo.bsky.social and Harry Dempsey on a weird work experiment - a company run by the invisible hand of its internal currency. No one has a boss. Or gets told what to do. But every action you take is prompted by the thirst to make more Will... on.ft.com/4jFaa5T
Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp
[FREE TO READ] For over a decade, a $20bn manufacturer has been conducting a radical experiment. No one has a boss or takes orders. Their decisions are guided by one thing, an internal currency system...
on.ft.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Totally fascinating reporting from @davidkeo.bsky.social and Harry Dempsey on a weird work experiment - a company run by the invisible hand of its internal currency. No one has a boss. Or gets told what to do. But every action you take is prompted by the thirst to make more Will... on.ft.com/4jFaa5T
This is the most brilliant read. Seriously. You will not regret it. Here's another free link... on.ft.com/4jTiMWd
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is the most brilliant read. Seriously. You will not regret it. Here's another free link... on.ft.com/4jTiMWd
This essay by @jacobsilverman.com on living in slop world is a great read - explaining how and why an increasingly 'hostile internet' is driving us crazy... on.ft.com/4k12iLV
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
[FREE TO READ] The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
on.ft.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This essay by @jacobsilverman.com on living in slop world is a great read - explaining how and why an increasingly 'hostile internet' is driving us crazy... on.ft.com/4k12iLV
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MPs 100% get why supermarkets caffs closing is a disaster for the local community. Other SW1ers can look a bit blank - my @financialtimes.com RANT on 'place making' while businesses accidentally melt our social glue - www.ft.com/content/33f0...
Ask Green: Where do you go when you’re lonely?
Sainsbury’s cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?
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March 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
MPs 100% get why supermarkets caffs closing is a disaster for the local community. Other SW1ers can look a bit blank - my @financialtimes.com RANT on 'place making' while businesses accidentally melt our social glue - www.ft.com/content/33f0...