Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph[1] and has previously written for The Guardian.[2]

Early life and education

Jacobs was born in the London borough of Brent in 1988. Her mother was the daughter of a Wolverhampton steel worker and her father, who ran a card store, was an immigrant from Nigeria. Jacobs has said she is "from a family of working-class people whose lives were defined by their flunking of the 11 plus", and that her "white ancestors literally worked themselves to death in coal pits".[3] Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School[4] and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Career

Jacobs started her career working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of Bonn. Jacobs subsequently worked in Tunisia as a freelance journalist. While in Tunis, her journalistic interest was focused on the Arab Spring, its problems and the rise of Islamist extremism in the Maghreb.[5][6]

She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year.[7][8] Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[9][10] Jacobs is sceptical towards elements within the environmental movements claims of a climate emergency, while still believing climate change is an existential problem.[11]

In February 2019, Jacobs was criticised by Owen Jones[12] for using the term "Cultural Marxism" in an editorial for the Daily Telegraph.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Telegraph. 25 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (8 February 2018). "Rivers of Blood still wounds me. But I understand why my white family supported Enoch Powell". The Telegraph.
  4. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (1 May 2018). "Justine Greening has got it wrong. We don't need to punish Etonians - we need more families like mine". The Telegraph.
  5. ^ "Sherelle Jacobs".
  6. ^ The Paths of the Arab Spring. World Politics Review. 4 June 2013. ISBN 9781939907110 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, Sherelle Jacobs, Paul Mason, Gina Miller, Sir Anthony Seldon". BBC.
  8. ^ Hopkins, Daniel (21 November 2019). "Bolton's Question Time line-up announced". Bolton News. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  9. ^ Withers, Matt (21 November 2019). "Who is on the BBC Question Time panel tonight?". New European. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  10. ^ "TCW's Brexit Roll of Honour: The Telegraph's Sherelle Jacobs". 27 March 2019.
  11. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (3 December 2019). "The UN's 'woke' climate change propaganda is an insult to science". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  12. ^ Jones, Owen (28 March 2019). "Why we need to talk about the media's role in far-right radicalisation". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  13. ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (27 February 2019). "There's only one way to win a culture war against the metropolitan elite". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 June 2021.

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