Jemima Kelly

Lo-fi, unpolished performances have become more popular than carefully stage-managed versions of reality

Overconfidence since the election victory of Donald Trump could tee the sector up for its next collapse

From kimchi to K-pop and ‘Squid Game’, the country’s cultural exports are drawing a surge of visitors

Voters didn’t enter the polling booths holding their noses; they went in with their eyes wide open

Isabel Berwick talks to Michael Skapinker, Stephen Bush, Claer Barrett and Jemima Kelly

Moral grandstanding is not the best way to convince people to come over to your side

Doing more than one thing at once can feel overwhelming — but it can also be liberating

The former president’s latest town hall was a spectacle even by the standards of modern American politics

Our fractured, algorithm-driven attention economy is all too easily exploited when people aren’t paying attention

Unsightly kerbside debris to some, eco-friendly cycles for hire have improved urban journeys

This campaign may be awash with crypto money and rhetoric but it’s not clear that either of the candidates really care

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

Repelled by the characters of those who decry censorship, we fail to value rights that are fundamental to liberal democracy

Democrats are beating the former US president at his own game

The US college campus where there are no culture wars

The critics of cancel culture and echo chambers have turned into an intolerant tribe of their own

Reactions to the Ambani wedding show we have lost our distaste for fortunes on extravagant display

America’s former and probably future First Lady fears neither the faux pas nor her husband

The smartphone, once hailed as a tool of great progress and prosperity, has been getting a bad rap of late. It emerged this week that when new students at Eton start the school year in September, their devices must not come with them. Instead, they will each be given a “dumb” Nokia phone that is unable to access the internet and only allows calls and texts. Deprived teens might feel the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who popularised the idea that we should blame smartphones for rising rates of me…

It didn’t have to be like this. The Democrats didn’t need to be in the midst of a crisis less than four months out from the US election, scrambling to deal with the reality that their candidate is just not up to another four years in the job. There was another way, one that would have required facing some hard truths, a little introspection and — crucially — some foresight. But it wasn’t one that President Joe Biden, his staff or his backers were willing to take. And the bitter irony is that th…