Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson is a novelist and essayist. His latest novel Live A Little was published in paperback by Vintage last month. He is currently writing a memoir
No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
