Sherelle Jacobs
@Sherelle_E_J
Daily Telegraph Columnist. Ballerina by night. #Wolverhampton [email protected]
Disorder is being normalised and criminals are being treated as victims… it’s no surprise then that Britain is creeping towards lawlessness And it could eventually prove the Labour Government’s undoing. My latest for @Telegraph below 📷 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/1…
I'll be speaking at @HTLGIFestival, #HTLGI25, which is just around the corner this Bank Holiday with @yanisvaroufakis, @jordanfstephens, @sapinker, @bureaucatliu, @ShashiTharoor, @shinisomara and many others. Still a few tickets left! howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/…
Reform’s new law and order campaign is fascinating on several levels. ‘Britain is Lawless’ could prove an earworm slogan in the tradition of ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ or ‘Get Brexit Done’. I was shoved by a fare-dodger on the tube the other day (he was trying to get through on my…
My column today for @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
✍️ The problem is not one single leak, but a culture in which failure has no serious consequences | Writes @Sherelle_E_J Read more below ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
There is clearly a scandalous problem with bureaucratic dysfunction in the British Armed Forces that the political class just doesn't want to get into. Military sources have told me of their exasperation that the British Army has, for various reasons, been allowed to evolve into…
The BBC is just so plainly, fundamentally obsolete. The only thing that has shielding it from a vertiginous Kodak/Blockbuster moment is the licence fee. Its dangerous reliance on a handful of top stars – a legacy of the antiquated linear broadcast model, when watching your fave…
My latest Substack long read sherellejacobs.substack.com/p/how-the-left…
It’s official. Labour’s hope to finally replace Rwanda with their own ‘progressive realist’ deterrence policy – in the form of a diplomatic ‘set piece’ migration deal with France – has fizzled. At best today’s agreement might be spun as an experimental pilot; at worst, it is…
The moral mantra that is now being relentlessly blared across the airwaves – that “those with the broadest shoulders should contribute more” – is really starting to grate. The sign of a healthy and morally upstanding society is not the benevolent redistribution of riches from…
🗣️ 'Labour have just blown Britain’s last chance to fix the NHS’ | @Sherelle_E_J 'This is not a Government the public believes is serious about change, but rather one descending into chaos' Read the full column below 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…
All hell breaking loose in the Labour Party this evening, which has descended into civil war. Starmer allies I've spoken to are volcanic with rage over the welfare rebellion and the fallout - not least today's dramatic scenes with Rachel Reeves in the Commons. One described their…
So I guess the basic takeaway from this week is that the New Right is a hot mess. There is a foundational problem here, which one can observe both sides of the Atlantic. Namely while conservatives are fundamentally more willing to *act* compared to their liberal counterparts, and…
Runcorn is a stupendous - perhaps game changing - victory for @reformparty_uk . Still, I am shocked that some people in the Westminster bubble are shocked. This is a constituency that has been so mismanaged by Labour that it doesn’t even have a public swimming pool. Deep…
thetimes.com/culture/theatr… To this Times piece on ‘toxic’ ballet industry, I can say from my own experience that ballet is one of those rare enclaves that has proved surreally immune to 21st century feel-good/everyone’s-a-winner/HR-wellbeing standards. That’s not completely a bad…
Brits find it irresistible to compare Donald Trump's market blowup with Liz Truss's mini-budget meltdown. But another reading is that Trump’s trade war woes are redolent of the early Thatcher’s troubled experiment with monetarism. We shouldn’t forget that major epochal…
Peston’s analysis of Trump's T-bond/debt trap is largely correct here but the rest is misleading sensationalism. The dollar’s dominance and status of US Treasury bonds as a safe haven in times of crisis has certainly not collapsed – and to suggest that this has been permanently…
We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison. Because, as I have…
Slightly surprised by the consensus forming that China will *definitely not blink first* in the showdown with Trump. Sure, Washington might be overplaying its hand by thinking that it can win a battle of resolve with an authoritarian state as the midterms lurk around the corner.…
Make no mistake, Trump’s tariff war poses an existential threat to the EU project. Until now, America has looked the other way as the EU has risen into a regulatory superpower courtesy of the ‘Brussels Effect’ (its capacity to unilaterally shape global standards and regulations…
It is vital that we try to understand the epochal shift that underlies American tariffs. Put simply, the world superpower is imprisoned in a gilded cage, from which it is now seeking to escape. Namely, America is trying to break out of the trap of dollar hegemony. Dollar hegemony…