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”
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country