Sherelle Jacobs

Sherelle Jacobs (born 1988) is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph and has previously written for The Guardian.

Quotes

• There is no point mincing words: Thatcherism and Reaganomics have been demolished by the very animal spirits of the free markets that, some 40 years ago, they unleashed in good faith. History has come full circle, with neoliberalism, like the mythical monster Ouroboros, devouring its own tail.
  • "The stagnant West must rediscover freedom to salvage its prosperity", The Telegraph (19 December 2022).

• It is time for the Leave camp to start saying the unsayable: the Tories have made such a hash of Brexit that the project is probably now unsalvageable.
  • "Britain is going to rejoin the EU far sooner than anyone now imagines", The Telegraph (16 January 2023).

• The mind boggles when it comes to Sadiq Khan. In many ways, he is a faceless phantom – a fascinatingly bland Labour apparatchik incapable of an original thought or phrase. And yet somehow he has managed to build himself into the consummate dictator-bureaucrat, London's own answer to Leonid Brezhnev or Raul Castro.
• [H]e is a genuinely disturbing political figure, spinning his own universe of deception out of London’s dystopian hellscape.
  • "London has crashed and burned under Sadiq Khan’s mayoralty" The Telegraph (21 August 2023).

• You've got to hand it to Liz Truss. It is customary for prime ministers to spend their retirement wasting into tragic figures.
• There’s something slightly different about Truss. Perhaps because she wasn't in office long enough to go mad, there has been no period of roving in the existential wilderness.
  • "Truss is right – but must she stand alone in the fight for freedom?", The Telegraph (18 September 2023).
  • Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, was in office for only 49 days.

• The conventional attitude is that, if World War Three arose, it would be by accident. But we should entertain the possibility that autocratic leaders – tortured by the prospect of death in the event of their fall from power – will be willing to pursue survival strategies that, while irrational to us, appear deeply rational to them.
  • "World War Three is approaching fast, and too few are willing to admit why", The Telegraph (30 January 2024).

• Tory Brexiteers promised that leaving the EU would allow Britain to "take back control" of its waters, and enable our fishermen to feast on a "sea of opportunity".
• The question is why Brexit has spectacularly failed. Of course, the conventional Remainer wisdom is that it was doomed from the start. But this neglects the elephant in the room: as it turns out, Britain is terrified of freedom.
• Britain is equally terrified of free trade, lest it plunges us into a libertarian dystopia awash with cancerous meat and alcoholism. ... The new Brexit alcohol duty regime that links rates to specific alcohol strength outdoes Brussels in its convoluted paternalism.
  • "Britain is now irrationally terrified of freedom. It should just rejoin the EU", The Telegraph (1 April 2024)