Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 05/04/2026Pigeon Town Steppers second line, New Orleans 042
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/12/2025It's that time of year. This seems about right. 040
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 21/07/2025I don’t think anyone captured the essence of Mailer-ness as Diane Arbus did (from the fabulous ‘Constellation’ show at the Oark Avenue Armory) 050
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 16/07/2025I was the NS's culture editor back then, not the deputy. But in all other particulars Nick Lezard's recollection of my small part in his becoming a columnist is spot on 0130
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 14/06/2025Louis Moholo-Moholo, 1940-2025. One of the giants of the South African jazz diaspora in the UK. RIP. 081
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 25/02/2025A privilege to be sent on my way to New York with a Banx 1190
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 04/02/2025Grimly amusing that a @wsj.com video on McKinley and tariffs should carry an ad from the province of Ontario, “your workforce partner” 1112
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 14/01/2025Tony Book, RIP. My dad took to me to Upton Park to watch City play out a dour 0-0 draw with West Ham when I was about eight. We were standing in the West Stand paddock near the dugouts. Skip noticed I was struggling to see and let me sit on the bench with him. Unforgettable. 1364
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 08/01/2025Or the consumptive, bed-bound author of a multi-volume roman fleuve 0110
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 08/01/2025Homage to Robert Merle on the front page of L'Humanité this morning 171
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/01/2025@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social reveals on his Substack this morning that Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan is “probably” his favourite film. I watched it for the first time in years recently. While it might not be my *favourite* film, it’s certainly a minor masterpiece of acting and screenwriting 070
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 14/12/2024Strava’s new AI doesn’t seem especially impressed by my “recent cycling activities” 390
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 05/12/2024Georgia's prime minister giving Javier Milei a tonsorial run for his money 050
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 05/12/2024A young Michel Barnier with Georges Pompidou. They are the only French prime ministers to have lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly, 62 years apart 1265
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/12/2024'We had to destroy the village in order to save it." 050
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/12/2024Handy graphic from @liberation.fr listing French PMs under the Ve Republic by length of tenure 33215
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/12/20241966 was structuralism’s annus mirabilis. The sales figures that year for, inter alia, Lacan’s Écrits and Foucault’s Les Mots et Les choses are remarkable (from volume I of François Dosse’s Histoire du structuralism) 051
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/12/2024Nicely put in @lemonde.fr: Michel Barnier faces the prospect of being the “most ephemeral” prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic 050
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 25/11/2024Incendiary stuff from South Africa’s The Brother Moves On at the Barbican this evening 030
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 23/11/2024The endless quest of the French Socialist Party 081
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 18/11/2024In tonight’s excursion to the London Jazz Festival, the Charles Tolliver Big Band at the Barbican 1110
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 17/11/2024The splendid Village of the Sun tonight in the London Jazz Festival 030
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 16/11/2024Watching Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece 7221
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 20/09/2024If it’s like this now, imagine what things will be like in six months’ time. There’s a definite whiff of the final couple of years of Mitterrand’s second septennat 020
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 17/08/2024Reading about an earlier, arguably more consequential, great migration 130
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 19/11/2023The magnificent James Brandon Lewis Quartet at Cafe OTO this evening 020
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 08/11/2023On this day last year I was in Cabourg in Normandy searching for traces of Proust 000
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 03/11/2023Writing an obituary of Carla Bley took me to this fabulous 1961 Jimmy Giuffre 3 date, which contains some of the earliest recordings of her songs. Gorgeously austere and limpid trio playing by Giuffre, Paul Bley and Steve Swallow 030
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 01/11/2023Researching a slightly belated obituary of Carla Bley for the FT and listening to compositions she contributed to two George Russell recordings made in the early Sixties. Lydian Chromatic-tastic 030
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 29/10/2023I’d like to see how the French data breaks down here (chart from Martin Wolf’s latest column) 110
