Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson: The state is always wrong and the individual is always right. Don't old habits die hard?
Published: 26 May 2007
The term Kafkaesque answers to a deep anxiety in us about power being wielded cruelly
Howard Jacobson: Forty years ago, not even the prospect of a living hell would make me quit smoking
Published: 19 May 2007
I loved my Stuyvesants, looking forward to the next before I'd sucked the life out of the previous
Howard Jacobson: When a child is stolen, it takes us into the unfathomable heart of human existence
Published: 12 May 2007
It evokes ancient terrors. Not for nothing do fairy stories abound in tales of lost children
Howard Jacobson: So it's not Iraq or Afghanistan that drives terrorists - it's drunk women in nightclubs
Published: 05 May 2007
What emerged in the bomb trial was a hotchpotch of prejudice, ignorance and sexual immaturity
Howard Jacobson: Disappointment awaits those who delve into the so-called mysteries of a writer's life
Published: 28 April 2007
The means by which experience and memory are transmuted into art are unfathomable to him
Howard Jacobson: The Americans will give up their love affair with guns when we do the same with cars
Published: 21 April 2007
In the past six months alone, 840 people were killed or maimed by drivers under 20
Howard Jacobson: Whoever said we are all entitled to express our opinions didn't reckon on the internet
Published: 14 April 2007
Every man is now a commentator, with his own blog, or his own link to a blog, or his response to someone else's blog
Howard Jacobson: Debase yourself first before someone else gets the opportunity to humiliate you
Published: 07 April 2007
We backed off from confrontation; we played along with the diplomatic falsities
Howard Jacobson: In these hypersensitive times, you don't need air miles to fly to the Land of Umbrage
Published: 31 March 2007
The air is thick with slights, more imaginary than real, and we want somebody to say sorry for them
Howard Jacobson: From Jane Austen to the diary of a London call girl, it's all the same to us these days
Published: 24 March 2007
Billie Piper was all blazing pout and pouting bosom. We like a heroine to be principled but not buttoned up
Howard Jacobson: Just what our dreary street life needs in these days of iPods: entertaining con men
Published: 17 March 2007
A new scam has appeared. And it gave me so much pleasure I want to share it with you
Howard Jacobson: It is better to be governed by old, nodding Lords than by cash-for-honours addicts
Published: 10 March 2007
Tony Blair believes we have voted him into the right to wealth. That comes with being elected now
Howard Jacobson: You wouldn't think that love, marriage and psychoanalysis would make a fun night out
Published: 03 March 2007
It was Irving Berlin's 'Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better' that brought the house down
Howard Jacobson: Clowns aren't funny. They're malicious, vile creatures who deserve everything they get
Published: 24 February 2007
What you pray for now is that Kaspar will learn from the inside what an unpardonable liberty clowning is
Howard Jacobson: Our unhappy, drunken children are the result of not placing any value on culture
Published: 17 February 2007
Why can't we say their lives would be better if they were curious about something other than celebrity?
Howard Jacobson: Independent Jewish Voices can carry on talking to themselves. I don't want to know
Published: 10 February 2007
Its fantasy of itself as a doughty band confronting the might of official bias is self-indulgent
Howard Jacobson: Imagine the scene when Sol Kerzner comes face to face with a typical Beswick urchin
Published: 03 February 2007
Gangs of four-year-olds roamed the precinct demanding protection money
Howard Jacobson: Imagine what Charles Dickens would have done with a character like Jade Goody
Published: 27 January 2007
While he saw qualities in the downtrodden, he did not confuse misfortune with virtue
Howard Jacobson: 'Big Brother' encourages something worse than racism
Published: 20 January 2007
The debate as to whether Jade and her super-dumb cohorts are racist is not worth having
Howard Jacobson: It probably isn't wise to look to Robin Cook for inspiration when writing your epitaph
Published: 13 January 2007
Why do I wish the Iraq war had not been intermingled with his mortal remains?
Howard Jacobson: Even the wicked can show some dignity, no matter how much we try to deprive them of it
Published: 06 January 2007
It was written across Saddam's face when he declined the black hood and accepted the noose
Howard Jacobson: There is nothing to fear when you reach the seventh age of man. On the contrary
Published: 30 December 2006
Leave aside their proximity to death and the old have the best of it. They know what they know
Howard Jacobson: It's official... if you take the trouble to read Shakespeare, your brain will thank you for it
Published: 23 December 2006
Forgive my jubilation, but I have been waiting for this scientific proof for a long time
Howard Jacobson: Be careful whose history you deny, for to hate them you must steep yourself in them
Published: 16 December 2006
There is no historian of the Holocaust That Never Was who isn't a Jew-hater first
Howard Jacobson: Sometimes a bit of irrational behaviour can stop you from acting like a plonker
Published: 09 December 2006
Even those without imagination of disaster know you don't go round telling bosses where to stuff it
