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    Jonathan Derbyshire is the FT's executive opinion editor. Before joining the FT, he was managing editor of Prospect and culture editor of the New Statesman.
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    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      ObituaryCarla Bley
      Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, 1936-2023

      Working with big and small groups alike, she wrote ‘the music of the devil’ with remarkable facility and sophistication

      Carla Bley in 1993. She was not an uncritical camp follower of the emerging avant-garde in jazz, thinking free jazz ‘needed work’
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      John Gray’s The New Leviathans — is the world doomed to get worse?

      From global crises to rising geopolitical tensions, the philosopher warns us against assuming that progress is inevitable

      Rubble lies on the ground next to the remains of a tree and an apartment block where all the windows have been blown out
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Javier Milei
      Libertarianism is having a moment with Argentina’s Milei

      The rightwing presidential hopeful is among a new generation of politicians reviving the movement

      FT montage of Javier Milei superimposed over the flag of Argentina and a $100 note
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Populism in Europe
      A new Catholic counter-revolution is under way in Europe

      From Italy and Spain to Poland, rightwing parties stress national sovereignty and conservative family values

      Ewan White illustration of a hand putting a ballot paper in the form of a cross in a voting box
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      ObituaryHarry Frankfurt
      Harry Frankfurt, philosopher, 1929-2023

      The authority on free will scored a surprise bestseller with ‘On Bullshit’

      A balding man with beard and glasses sits on an ottoman near bookshelves
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Medical science
      For all the brain benefits, you won’t catch me napping

      New research suggests a daytime sleep can delay neurodegeneration, but what about those who just can’t?

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Free and Equal — why John Rawls’s philosophy matters today

      Daniel Chandler offers a powerfully argued case for renovating democracy’s tattered social contract

      A man stands with a ‘Tax the rich’ sign
    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      ObituaryEmahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
      Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, musician and nun, 1923-2023

      Her compositions managed to evoke Chopin, the Mississippi Delta blues and the sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Kate Forbes
      What should a secular society really look like?

      The debate over Kate Forbes has focused attention on the place of religious beliefs in the public square

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Manchester Unspun — the story of the city’s resurrection

      From the opening of the Haçienda to the property boom, adopted Mancunian Andy Spinoza tells a vivid story with the pride of a native

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      ObituaryTom Nairn
      Tom Nairn, political theorist, 1932-2023

      He was best known for his writing on the fragmenting of the British union, which he viewed as inevitable

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      ObituaryAdolfo Kaminsky
      Adolfo Kaminsky, forger and photographer, 1925-2023

      The facsimiles he produced helped thousands of French Jews and other persecuted peoples

      Adolfo Kaminsky in 2019
    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      Year in a word: Polycrisis

      Multiple interlinked global emergencies have been unfolding simultaneously

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Philosophy for life

      What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

      A young boy in shorts and a blue T-shirt hangs upside down from a railing inside a New York subway train
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      ObituaryPharoah Sanders
      Pharoah Sanders, jazz musician, 1940-2022

      A leading figure in the free jazz movement, the saxophonist’s explorations pushed the outer limits of harmony and form

      Pharoah Sanders: ‘Whatever comes through me, I’m trying to express and free myself, and let it out, whatever it is’
    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Either/Or by Elif Batuman — a complex coming of age

      The novelist continues her quirky, semi-autobiographical story of student life in this amusing sequel to ‘The Idiot’

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Metaphysical Animals — the women philosophers who countered logical positivism

      A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      FT Books Essay
      Literature’s ‘enfant misérable’: the driving force behind Michel Houellebecq

      The French writer owes his standing to provocative social critique — but does his antagonistic image mask a concern for humanity?

      Michel Houellebecq, photographed in 2014
    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Speak, Silence: In Search of WG Sebald — joining the holes

      This biography of the great German writer places his work at the heart of the catastrophes of 20th-century history

    • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
      Health
      A cautionary tale for cycling converts

      A cardiac episode offers lessons in philosophy as well as the need for health checks

      Cyclists racing on country roads
    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
      Peripheral vision: three bike routes to London’s outer edges and beyond

      Two-wheeled explorations of the capital’s outskirts peel back layers of history

    • Friday, 11 June, 2021
      ObituaryEdward de Bono
      Edward de Bono, author and polymath, 1933-2021

      The bestselling Maltese-born physician coined the phrase ‘lateral thinking’

      Edward de Bono believed that the techniques of lateral thinking could be taught and, just as importantly, sold
    • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
      FT MagazineTravel
      Lurching towards a new era in freedom of movement

      ‘A trip to Porto gave me only a glimpse of what European travel might be like in the post-pandemic era’

    • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
      Football
      England’s football fans return to their natural habitat

      Match at Wembley Stadium reinforces the connection between clubs and their supporters

      Manchester City fans made up some of the 8,000 people allowed to watch the Carabao Cup final live at Wembley Stadium in April
    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
      FT Books Essay
      Philip Roth — a life on his own terms

      Blake Bailey’s long-awaited biography does not shy away from the more controversial aspects of the writer’s career

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