Gerald Jacobs
Gerald Jacobs is literary editor of the Jewish Chronicle. His latest novel is Pomeranski (Quartet)
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
Scapegoat of a paranoid era
Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial
Minority of one
Baddiel is concerned in this short, polemical book with Jews being “left out”
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain