Jenny Kleeman
@jennykleeman.bsky.social
Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @TheSTMagazine @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE. http://jennykleeman.substack.com
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Jenny Kleeman
@jennykleeman.bsky.social
· Jun 27
This is the face of an extremely surprised and very chuffed person.
Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
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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...
She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him?
Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him?
Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.
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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'
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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...
Even when unthinkable things were happening to me, my first instinct was to work. Am I addicted?
It was only years later, when I heard the word workaholic being used seriously for the first time, that I wondered whether I had a problem
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November 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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?
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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!
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Thought for The Day is about Six Seven. It’s officially over, guys!
Oh D’Angelo! I loved him.
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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.
August 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
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"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...
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...
"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty
Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece
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August 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"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...
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...
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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?
August 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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...
LRN No. 54: how selling 635 copies makes you a bestseller
Plus: the death of Naina Mishra
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August 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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.
August 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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 had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness
Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her moth...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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?
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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.
two men dressed as batman and robin are walking down a street .
ALT: two men dressed as batman and robin are walking down a street .
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July 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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.
July 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
July 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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...
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Important news for anyone who listens to BBC podcasts outside the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
BBC podcasts and audio are now available on BBC.com
Listen to current BBC podcasts and a rich archive of shows on demand on BBC.com and on the BBC app.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Important news for anyone who listens to BBC podcasts outside the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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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-...
www.freelancingwithtim.com/p/freelance-...
Here's what 300+ publications pay freelancers
The good, the bad, and the ugly
www.freelancingwithtim.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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-...
www.freelancingwithtim.com/p/freelance-...
Totally had enough of Oasis and they haven’t even played a note yet
July 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...
一條命值多少錢
YouTube video by 有時
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July 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
@orwellprize.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is the face of an extremely surprised and very chuffed person.
Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
@orwellprize.bsky.social
Photo credit: Facundo Arrizabalaga
@orwellprize.bsky.social
Totally bowled over by this.
Congratulations @jennykleeman.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism! 🎉
"Her writing brings out the humanity of her subjects with emotional intelligence and great sensitivity." - @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, Chair of Judges
Read more: www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/j...
"Her writing brings out the humanity of her subjects with emotional intelligence and great sensitivity." - @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, Chair of Judges
Read more: www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/j...
June 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Totally bowled over by this.