Cordelia Jenkins
@cordeliajenkins.bsky.social
Editor of the FT Weekend Magazine
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Tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com comes with an FT Mag special dedicated to the autumnal joys of brown food. My contribution is an intense search for the Best Brown Dish or BBD. A Farrow & Ball colour chart might have been involved. Do pick up a print copy if you can. It’s a beautiful thing.
September 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com comes with an FT Mag special dedicated to the autumnal joys of brown food. My contribution is an intense search for the Best Brown Dish or BBD. A Farrow & Ball colour chart might have been involved. Do pick up a print copy if you can. It’s a beautiful thing.
This @robinwigglesworth.ft.com essay lifting the lid on the repo market is so clever and well written. Free link here... www.ft.com/content/8a7e...
The repo market is the ‘dark matter’ of finance: powerful and perilous
How worried should we be about the multitrillion-dollar market’s influence over the cosmos of central banks, bonds, pension plans and private credit firms?
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September 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
This @robinwigglesworth.ft.com essay lifting the lid on the repo market is so clever and well written. Free link here... www.ft.com/content/8a7e...
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James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer
with @ramshodgson.bsky.social
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with @ramshodgson.bsky.social
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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September 3, 2026 at 7:31 AM
James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer
with @ramshodgson.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
with @ramshodgson.bsky.social
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From our incredibly beautiful rivers photo special, here's a free link to Gill Plimmer's enraging piece about how British waterways were poisoned. With photography commissioned from up and down the country by Dafna Talmor, Yan Wang Preston and Hannah Mary Morgan as.ft.com/r/e0440ba7-3...
The fight to save England’s rivers
Public confidence in the privatised water suppliers has collapsed. How did they get away with poisoning our water for decades?
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August 22, 2026 at 10:11 AM
From our incredibly beautiful rivers photo special, here's a free link to Gill Plimmer's enraging piece about how British waterways were poisoned. With photography commissioned from up and down the country by Dafna Talmor, Yan Wang Preston and Hannah Mary Morgan as.ft.com/r/e0440ba7-3...
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I couldn't eat! Never happened to me in my life before - who even was I??
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The strange hunger of hospital life
Five days in hospital made food feel impossible until one sticky, buttery Instagram fantasy lodged in my mind
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August 22, 2026 at 8:04 AM
I couldn't eat! Never happened to me in my life before - who even was I??
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Great reporting here from @khoureld.bsky.social who found and spoke to several Colombian mercenaries who claim they were hired to fight alongside the RSF in Sudan by a UAE company as.ft.com/r/679844be-2...
The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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August 15, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Great reporting here from @khoureld.bsky.social who found and spoke to several Colombian mercenaries who claim they were hired to fight alongside the RSF in Sudan by a UAE company as.ft.com/r/679844be-2...
Read this fantastic feat of reporting, so beautifully written by @matthewembremner.bsky.social
"She looks at her boy and, for the first time, in a way that feels almost unbearable, she understands what was done to them." Matthew Bremner for @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/016a...
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August 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Read this fantastic feat of reporting, so beautifully written by @matthewembremner.bsky.social
And if you haven’t had a chance to read Felix Bazalgette’s great piece on how online pirate libraries are shaping the AI revolution yet then here’s a free link… as.ft.com/r/83599445-e...
The race to collect every book ever written
When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution
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July 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
And if you haven’t had a chance to read Felix Bazalgette’s great piece on how online pirate libraries are shaping the AI revolution yet then here’s a free link… as.ft.com/r/83599445-e...
We asked the FT's climate corro @kenzabryan.ft.com to answer an all important question... just how toxic are your underpants, really? She took the commission very seriously and the answer is more clear cut than you think... as.ft.com/r/f8f9c6e3-4...
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
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July 26, 2026 at 3:35 PM
We asked the FT's climate corro @kenzabryan.ft.com to answer an all important question... just how toxic are your underpants, really? She took the commission very seriously and the answer is more clear cut than you think... as.ft.com/r/f8f9c6e3-4...
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From this article about the (surprisingly cross-ideological) “detox movement” subculture of Americans trying to remove plastics and other synthetic chemicals from their lifestyles.
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
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July 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
From this article about the (surprisingly cross-ideological) “detox movement” subculture of Americans trying to remove plastics and other synthetic chemicals from their lifestyles.
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One woman's quest to detoxify her pants. Spoiler: forever chemicals are not cutesy and aspirational like forever homes or forever families. as.ft.com/r/70cf298a-9...
Forever chemicals are everywhere. Should we care?
How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety
as.ft.com
July 25, 2026 at 7:20 AM
One woman's quest to detoxify her pants. Spoiler: forever chemicals are not cutesy and aspirational like forever homes or forever families. as.ft.com/r/70cf298a-9...
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You think you know about China's one child policy, but this amazingly moving story of a life in its shadow is so revealing you see it and its consequences so sharply as.ft.com/r/218e9755-3...
In one-child China, she thrived. The unravelling came later
The story of a life shaped by a radical social policy
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July 18, 2026 at 6:44 AM
You think you know about China's one child policy, but this amazingly moving story of a life in its shadow is so revealing you see it and its consequences so sharply as.ft.com/r/218e9755-3...
This week’s mag cover by @samlearner.bsky.social is about how the fever for vibe coding is breaking the internet is terrifying, brilliant and funny in turns. Hats off to Sam and to @okr.bsky.social for superb editing. as.ft.com/r/9e8ecbaf-9...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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July 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
This week’s mag cover by @samlearner.bsky.social is about how the fever for vibe coding is breaking the internet is terrifying, brilliant and funny in turns. Hats off to Sam and to @okr.bsky.social for superb editing. as.ft.com/r/9e8ecbaf-9...
The FT Mag's America at 250 edition is out today, featuring the thoughts of Stephen Breyer, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Simon Schama, @okr.bsky.social Harlan Bozeman @jayrayner1.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social Jancis Robinson & more www.ft.com/content/3265... @ftweekend.com
My fellow American: who should be remembered for the next 250 years?
Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured: from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker
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July 4, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The FT Mag's America at 250 edition is out today, featuring the thoughts of Stephen Breyer, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Simon Schama, @okr.bsky.social Harlan Bozeman @jayrayner1.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social Jancis Robinson & more www.ft.com/content/3265... @ftweekend.com
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In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, a white mob murdered Black men in the street and overthrew the city’s democratically elected biracial government. North Carolina would not elect another Black person to Congress until 1992. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/SBU6sA
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup
A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability.
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July 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, a white mob murdered Black men in the street and overthrew the city’s democratically elected biracial government. North Carolina would not elect another Black person to Congress until 1992. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/SBU6sA
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Brilliant must-read piece on Andy Burnham’s Manchester years. Great job again by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social and FT Mag editor @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social 👍
www.ft.com/content/9949...
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The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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June 24, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Brilliant must-read piece on Andy Burnham’s Manchester years. Great job again by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social and FT Mag editor @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social 👍
www.ft.com/content/9949...
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Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:
The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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June 24, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:
Our own @pilitaclark.bsky.social is on indomitable form here, tracking the dogged fight to build an alliance outside the COPs to make a plan for phasing out fossil fuels.... as.ft.com/r/7dd2eaf9-0...
The messy, chaotic and possibly quixotic quest to phase out fossil fuels
The inside story of a climate summit unlike any other
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May 16, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Our own @pilitaclark.bsky.social is on indomitable form here, tracking the dogged fight to build an alliance outside the COPs to make a plan for phasing out fossil fuels.... as.ft.com/r/7dd2eaf9-0...
One of my favourite mag pieces of late is this appropriately joyful and poetic piece by Matthew Holman on the great Frank O'Hara's lesser known work as an ambassador of American art for Nelson Rockefeller's International Program .... its so good. Gift link here as.ft.com/r/eafb8692-f...
Frank O’Hara and the end of the ‘American Century’
The poet and curator was at the forefront of US efforts to project its high art as forcefully as its military might abroad — an idea that now looks dead
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May 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
One of my favourite mag pieces of late is this appropriately joyful and poetic piece by Matthew Holman on the great Frank O'Hara's lesser known work as an ambassador of American art for Nelson Rockefeller's International Program .... its so good. Gift link here as.ft.com/r/eafb8692-f...
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My cover story in today's FT Magazine, for which I listened to THIRTY EIGHT EPISODES of the Katie Miller Podcast, in their entirety. 🫠
Meet the Millers. (Illustration by Pierre Mornet / Grant Wood)
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Meet the Millers. (Illustration by Pierre Mornet / Grant Wood)
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Inside the White House’s most inscrutable marriage. (No not that one)
What the union of Stephen and Katie Miller says about Maga world
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May 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My cover story in today's FT Magazine, for which I listened to THIRTY EIGHT EPISODES of the Katie Miller Podcast, in their entirety. 🫠
Meet the Millers. (Illustration by Pierre Mornet / Grant Wood)
as.ft.com/r/910e125d-f... (GIFT LINK! 🎁)
Meet the Millers. (Illustration by Pierre Mornet / Grant Wood)
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in professional news, come monday i've got a new role at the FT: commissioning editor on FT Weekend Magazine. very excited; send pitches.
April 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
in professional news, come monday i've got a new role at the FT: commissioning editor on FT Weekend Magazine. very excited; send pitches.
The brilliant Suzy Hansen has written an essay for @FTMag from an extract of her new book "From Life Itself" about what happened in one Istanbul neighbourhood over a decade of political chaos and its so good... as.ft.com/r/8b8bed7f-3...
How a lawless Istanbul neighbourhood weathered a decade of political shocks
Through regional wars, terrorism and mass migration, an area of the old city was transformed by forces beyond its residents’ imaginations
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May 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
The brilliant Suzy Hansen has written an essay for @FTMag from an extract of her new book "From Life Itself" about what happened in one Istanbul neighbourhood over a decade of political chaos and its so good... as.ft.com/r/8b8bed7f-3...
I cannot recommend this week's cover story by @christopherjm.ft.com highly enough. It's the frankly astonishing story of the fortitude of one Ukrainian drone commander on the eastern front... don't miss it... as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4...
‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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May 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I cannot recommend this week's cover story by @christopherjm.ft.com highly enough. It's the frankly astonishing story of the fortitude of one Ukrainian drone commander on the eastern front... don't miss it... as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4...
Delighted to have @rahulabhatia.bsky.social in the magazine this weekend. His essay on Dubai and the psychological bargains its residents make in order to justify staying in place while a war hovers in the background is just beautiful... as.ft.com/r/cb855c7b-9...
April 11, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Delighted to have @rahulabhatia.bsky.social in the magazine this weekend. His essay on Dubai and the psychological bargains its residents make in order to justify staying in place while a war hovers in the background is just beautiful... as.ft.com/r/cb855c7b-9...
This piece by Orlando Reade in the mag is a fascinating tale that jumps from Paradise Lost, to 19th-century New Orleans to Mardi Gras 2026 where Milton's radical streak is still very much in evidence in Trump's America. Read it, for free, I urge you... as.ft.com/r/0530b559-8...
The search for the faceless king of Mardi Gras
[FREE TO READ] How a Milton scholar’s journey to the poet’s dark side led him to New Orleans, birthplace of the secretive ‘Mistick Krewe of Comus’
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April 5, 2026 at 8:02 AM
This piece by Orlando Reade in the mag is a fascinating tale that jumps from Paradise Lost, to 19th-century New Orleans to Mardi Gras 2026 where Milton's radical streak is still very much in evidence in Trump's America. Read it, for free, I urge you... as.ft.com/r/0530b559-8...