Gerald Jacobs
Piecing it together
Although Howard Jacobson’s latest novel is vastly unlike his previous comic works, it just may be his masterpiece
Kicking the Football Habit
With the community-based bond between football clubs and their fans having long since disintegrated, why do the fans of hopeless teams remain addicted?
Operatic Passions
High Court Judges may not like it but The Jeremy Kyle show has a consistent underlying morality
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”