Howard Jacobson
Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson’s most recent book, The Act Of Love, was published to wide acclaim in 2008. An acerbic cultural critic with a passion for literature and art, he is known for his ebullient wit as well as his unique take on the Jewish experience in Britain.
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Howard Jacobson: Austerity doesn't hurt when the sun is out
Saturday, 29 May 2010
If you have to tell people the party’s over, you don’t want to be doing it in the dead of winter
Howard Jacobson: Some human rights are plain wrong
Saturday, 22 May 2010
The culture of the inviolability of the individual has found a congenial resting place in our schools
Howard Jacobson: Here's why the 'elite' are in charge
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Clegg and Cameron have power because there aren’t enough people educationally equipped to seize it from them
Howard Jacobson: Three days of sorrow and joy – of a sort
Saturday, 8 May 2010
I cast my vote. Not to put A in but to keep B out. Was it to secure this privilege that men risked their lives?
Howard Jacobson: A morality play for these muddled times
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Remember that the next time you ask for honesty: you don't want to hear it
Howard Jacobson: A one-eyed giant nearly stopped me getting home
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Having a column to write, I went in search of other Englishmen as anxious to escape as I was
Howard Jacobson: How a leader can come along who seems to speak for a nation's hurt
Saturday, 17 April 2010
This is not a good time to imagine mourning a single politician, let alone a cadre of them
Howard Jacobson: Pupil power has left us with uneducated children and humiliated teachers
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Teaching has been turned upside down. Ignorance is the arbiter of knowledge
Howard Jacobson: Peace becomes possible now that Israel is being treated like a grown-up
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Anti-Zionism of the sort that peppers letters pages has much to answer for
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