Genuinely sad to do this, the end of a once great newspaper. #bezos #wapo

Just taking a moment to remember that when A J Ayer was working for the Special Operations Executive in 1941-2 he spent time in Algiers, and so may have passed an 11 year old Jacques Derrida in the street, maybe even kicked a football with him... #Ayer #Derrida

Little known picture of T. S. Eliot as an extra in the 1978 film Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. #tseliot

Very Freudian that, unlike other thinkers, if you disagree with some of the fundamentals of Freud you are accused of 'resisting' him. I disagree with some of the fundamentals of Hegel, but that's not 'resistance'.

Do you like little books? Do you like ethics? Are you looking for the ideal stocking filler which combines both? Here's a little thing I done this year, which I think is quite good.

Have spent the last couple of weeks reading Jorge Semprun's The Long Voyage (also translated as The Cattle Truck) and Literature or Life. Can't believe I hadn't come across his work before. Why isn't he spoken of among the greats? Or is he, but I somehow missed it...

My biography of Jacques Derrida, An Event Perhaps (Verso). All excellent bookshops etc.