Jon Kaye.Connection, identity, belief and the strange business of being a person.
Someone on a podcast explained Gen Z to me this week. Gen Z are roughly aged between 14 and 29. They values honesty. Gen Z wants authenticity. Gen Z doesn't trust institutions. Gen Z discovers music through social media. Gen Z…
I’m in a lot of WhatsApp groups. Family groups. Work groups. Groups for projects that finished three years ago. Groups created to organise one dinner 3 years ago. And several where I have absolutely no idea why I’m there.
Every morning I walk the dog. It's 75 minutes of peace. No emails. No meetings. No phone calls.
At 1am on Monday morning, I’ll be awake watching England play Mexico in the World Cup. I can’t remember the last time I was voluntarily awake at 1am on a Monday.
Nobody tells you creativity is political. It's usually talked about in terms like self-expression, or problem-solving, or channelling your inner child.
The internet made everyone a publisher. It forgot to make enough editors.
I’ve got a confession. A few years ago, I liked the phrase “my truth.”
My son keeps asking me about day trading. Not in a formal, “Father, please explain the mechanics of leveraged speculation” kind of way. More in the way teenagers ask about something they’ve already half-decided is interesting…
Last weekend, I watched the boat race live on the Thames. It was an unbelievable atmosphere.
As a parent, you dread these moments. You know the ones. The “right, we need to talk” moments.
Sometimes you realise why clichés become clichés. It's not because they’re clever. It's because they’re true. This week I’ve been ill. Properly ill.
If you've ever watched football on TV, then you'll have heard the commentator say: “He’s 20 years of age.” As opposed to years of what? Years of custard? I think you mean that he's 20 years old. Nobody has ever said "years of…
If you needed proof we’ve collectively lost our minds, the startup Aaru is a pretty good exhibit. Aaru is allegedly worth a $1bn. It uses AI agents (“bots”) to simulate human responses for market research: focus groups, surveys,…
The world is so bloody messy these days. Trump has ripped up decades old global political alliances. There are wars still going on (!) in 2026. The climate is fucked. And we seem to be spending all our money on AI chips and data…
Politics is broken, and not in the way you think it is. It’s not the shouting, the scandals, or the lack of morals. The real issue sits underneath all of that. We've built a system where politics is a job. A career. A way to earn…
- Exclusive Announcement! I have a confession to make: I don’t have ADHD.
Well, I do too. Thirteen GCSEs, two AO levels (yes, I'm that old), four A levels, Cambridge university degree and two Masters degrees.
When push comes to shove, people do what’s best for themselves. Actually, they don’t even need a shove. It’s their default position. (Not even your friends and family care about you).
On Tuesday night, something extraordinary happened. I was at a Coldplay concert expecting the usual mix of great music, lights, a bit of nostalgia and a great show.
Just this morning, I saw a cyclist on a Lime bike gliding through a red light without even glancing sideways. No hesitation. No fear. Just full of confidence that there’d be no consequences. And he was right.
Ever feel like you’re the only one not getting it? Like everyone else is on the same team, vibing to a frequency you can't hear? We all feel like that sometimes, of course. It’s a weird kind of disconnection, not loneliness…
The truth is out there. Or at least that's what Scully told us. But you’re not actually seeing the truth. You're not seeing the world as it really is - you’re seeing it as you are.
A few years back, the UK appointed a Minister for Loneliness. It sounded like satire. A government job title plucked from a dystopian novel. But it wasn’t a joke.
We know so much these days. We can predict the weather days in advance, simulate the big bang, trace neural pathways in the brain, split atoms, and 3D-print working organs.
My son came home from school the other day and proudly told me that he'd just got 100% in his Latin test at school. He was right to be proud. I was too.
For over 40 years, I’ve been a Manchester United football fan. And for all of that time, I’ve had a simple expectation: they win.
I was taking the dog for a walk earlier this week. It was a beautiful afternoon. The sun was shining. I felt happy. Half an hour later, and as far from home as I was planning to get, I noticed that the blue sky had gone. It was…
It's bloody cold at the moment in London so when I woke up with a jolt at 5am, covered in sweat, I knew something was up. I was never going back to sleep so I got up, slumped down the stairs and turned the coffee machine on.
Is it just me or are there more and more arseholes in the world today? People just walking down the middle of the road. Happens all the time round me. What’s wrong with the pavement?
If you were invisible, what would you do first? OK, now wipe the smut from your mind and think of something that doesn’t involve someone being naked.