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Howard Jacobson: The money men were bound to win, but Melvyn showed us how good TV can be
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Our writer admires how his friend kept the South Bank Show's bean-counters at bay
Howard Jacobson: A letter to an anti-Semite who isn't
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Your anti-Zionism is tending to an extremism.
Howard Jacobson: Never underestimate the power of the of those old Austrian-Slavic legends
Saturday, 2 May 2009
It’s the madness of erotic love which ballet can speak of as nothing else can
Howard Jacobson: Why should Susan Boyle have to curry favour with this squalid culture?
Saturday, 25 April 2009
It's tyrannical to signal that only the sveltely sexy are worthy of our attention
Howard Jacobson: Ginger zingers, banana nirvanas and all my other juicy nightmares
Saturday, 11 April 2009
One point stands out: lime juice stings a cut finger beyond endurance
Howard Jacobson: The scorn shown to Jacqui Smith's husband is proof of people's hypocrisy
Saturday, 4 April 2009
I don’t watch blue movies. But then I’ve watched too many to be any longer curious
Howard Jacobson: Someone should make a final stand for humankind
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Those who say we misplace the threat of terror are committing us all to suicide
Howard Jacobson: Reinvention is the joy and purpose of art. Truth is for judges
Saturday, 21 March 2009
The novel proper has been losing ground to real life improper for years
Howard Jacobson: What do you do if you've got too much time on your hands? Start a fight
Saturday, 14 March 2009
The boredom of existence explains our going astray in nine cases out of 10
Howard Jacobson: Our bankers could learn a thing or two from the Victorians – namely honour
Saturday, 7 March 2009
They had the moral refinement to do away with themselves when the game was up
Howard Jacobson: Earning respect has got nothing to do with whether or not you're educated
Saturday, 28 February 2009
There is nothing specifically of our time about hating a clever clogs. We always have
Howard Jacobson: Go to the opera and a man with a bald head is always blocking the view
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Couldn't they reserve a few good seats for our society's cultural vagabonds?
Let’s see the ‘criticism’ of Israel for what it really is
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Emotions have run high over events in Gaza. Howard Jacobson argues that just below the surface runs a vicious strain of ancient prejudice.
Howard Jacobson: When it comes to art and the human condition, keep morality out of it
Saturday, 7 February 2009
The larger your imagination the fewer feelings you don't understand
Howard Jacobson: You can never get enough sex, but you can have too much money
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Society will always be unjust. The question is how great we can bear the disparity to be
Howard Jacobson: Get your tailoring right, and you can set out to solve the world's problems
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Too much attention to exterior show a man is trivial; too little and he is a fanatic
Howard Jacobson: There's all the difference between a silly lad and a murderous racist
Saturday, 17 January 2009
The palace is still no place to acquaint a boy with the ironic locutions of the street
Howard Jacobson: Harold Pinter didn't get my joke, and I didn't get him – until it was too late
Saturday, 10 January 2009
I listened in rapture. An observer would have picked us for master and acolyte
Howard Jacobson: The Palestinians might be winning the propaganda war, but at what cost?
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Israel could not have done other than it is doing, but that does not make it right
Howard Jacobson: Few can do love and loss like the Old Testament – except Leonard Cohen
Saturday, 27 December 2008
Can you see where the singer got his taste for the eroticism of betrayal?
Howard Jacobson: The road to despair usually involves buying Christmas gifts for men
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Men see through this shallow pandering to a manliness they are expected to possess
Howard Jacobson: Careless talk costs lives, so keep your scaremongering to yourself
Saturday, 13 December 2008
The spectacle of a society flagellating itself morning and night is not edifying
Howard Jacobson: Another act of terrorism, another attempt to play the blame game
Saturday, 6 December 2008
To argue that Palestine fuelled the massacre in Mumbai is preposterous
Howard Jacobson: Thanks to Leonard Cohen, I can see the light that slips through the crack
Saturday, 29 November 2008
It’s like a reprimand to people of my temperament. Could he be singing to me?
Howard Jacobson: Read more literature and less history. That's the lesson of Hitler's deformity
Saturday, 22 November 2008
We feel safe with a monster we have the power to deflate
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