Jenny Kleeman

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Spent much of today reading this extraordinary, harrowing piece. Everyone should read it

I think this is the thing. It liked being rained on.

These plants are clearly more needy than my human children. But thank you - really appreciate your advice.

It’s inside, indirect sunlight. Indoor potting compost… some leaves are v droopy

Thank you. Repotted, am not over watering, and still it yellows.

This all makes sense. Thank you! Now, can you tell me why my cheese plant is dying too? (I am only half joking)

I want it to live but I don’t know if I can handle its rejection again… but do share!

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.

Thank you!

"It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

"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...

Mary, Ben, Jenny and Emily sit onstage with screens on either side, facing a mixed audience. The screens show colorful graphics.

A close up of Jenny Kleeman.

A close up of Ben Alderson-Day as he speaks, gesturing with his hand.

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?

LRN No. 54: how selling 635 copies makes you a bestseller Plus: the death of Naina Mishra

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.

‘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...

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?

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 .

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.

Follow Becky on Instagram, if Instagram is your thing - she’s @r.e.burke there

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...

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.

Important news for anyone who listens to BBC podcasts outside the UK
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Here's what 300+ publications pay freelancers The good, the bad, and the ugly

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-...

Totally had enough of Oasis and they haven’t even played a note yet

YouTube video by 有時 一條命值多少錢

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
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It was extraordinary company to be in.

You’re really kind. Thank you!

Helen! Thank you

Thank you so much!

Totally bowled over by this.

Booking is open for the Edinburgh International Book Festival! Am doing two events: The Price of Life with @profdevisridhar.bsky.social, and mental health in the digital age with @aldersonday.bsky.social and Emily Postan. Excited to be in such great company www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...