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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
