For this week's column, I wrote about neuroaesthetics and the importance of getting regular exposure to the arts (as a spectator or, better, as a participant) and to beauty and nature

ft.com/content/f88102… via @ft

If you're feeling passive aggressive today, do feel free to share my latest with your most annoying mates

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“Only ever leave voice notes for someone you are confident likes you. A voice note is a demand on someone else’s time. It is also, as the detractors say, somewhat self-indulgent.” ⁦Jemima Kelly⁩ on.ft.com/458sn5l

Golly. That's a more than 15 point lead Trump has over Biden now in the betting markets

Guess who’s back

They said I couldn't do it, but I got some lyrics from Original Pirate Material into a column in the Financial Times of London.

Geezers need excitement
If their lives don't provide em this
They incite violence
Common sense
Simple common sense

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OK wow we're here it's really happening now 😱 I guess that there are probably already developers in romantic relationships with AIs?

Strongly this energy: youtube.com/watch?v=dJTU48…

Esther McVey is in the news for banning rainbow lanyards. Here’s how the Minister for Common Sense also spends your money

Goodness me. Husband of the 'minister for common sense' gets paid £1000 a month by this company.

Is MTG too MAGA for DJT? My latest via Financial Times
on.ft.com/4apujri

'Not only is she no longer useful, but it might actually damage Trump to associate himself with [Marjorie Taylor Greene] too much. The base is secured; it’s the centre he now has to appeal to' - on.ft.com/3WDEg0T by Jemima Kelly

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Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing ‘Bad Weather’ realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/…

'She testified that she had swatted Trump on his behind with a rolled-up magazine, and that he had told her not to worry about his wife Melania, because they “don’t sleep in the same room”.'

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Might add 'Solzhenitsyn put it better' to my bio 🫠

'The last thing the Conservative party needs is for Sunak to start having visions again.'

Love this on how to lose gracefully from Stephen Bush

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I wrote about morality and the Musk school of (mis)management. With thanks to Edward Brooks for his thoughts ft.com/content/cbdb8a… via @ft

“Water holds you up. Water says, ‘I’ve got you.’ Especially when it rains. When it rains and you’re swimming... It’s beautiful.”

Lovely piece on SWIMDEM, featuring my local lido, by zehra munir (free to read!)

on.ft.com/44opXPF

Jemima Kelly this is the funniest comment I have ever read in the Financial Times

“In fact, he has been dressing the same way and combing his flaxen mop over into that same wind-non-resistant hair helmet since the 1980s.”

😂😂😂😂