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”
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
An election without ideas
We need intellectual substance, not just idle gossip
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise