Sherelle Jacobs
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]
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.[3][4]
She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time in November 2019 and on Any Questions? in May of the same year.[5][6] Jacobs is a Brexit supporter and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[7][8] Jacobs is sceptical towards elements within the environmental movements claims of a climate emergency, while still believing climate change is an existential problem.[9]
In February 2019, Jacobs was described by Owen Jones[10] as espousing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in an editorial for the Daily Telegraph.[11]
Personal life[]
Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School[12] and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Notes[]
- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs". The Guardian.
- ^ "Sherelle Jacobs".
- ^ The Paths of the Arab Spring. World Politics Review. June 4, 2013. ISBN 9781939907110 – via Google Books.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, Sherelle Jacobs, Paul Mason, Gina Miller, Sir Anthony Seldon". BBC.
- ^ Hopkins, Daniel (21 November 2019). "Bolton's Question Time line-up announced". Bolton News. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Withers, Matt (21 November 2019). "Who is on the BBC Question Time panel tonight?". New European. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "TCW's Brexit Roll of Honour: The Telegraph's Sherelle Jacobs". 27 March 2019.
- ^ Jacobs, Sherelle (2019-12-03). "The UN's 'woke' climate change propaganda is an insult to science". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ Jones, Owen (March 28, 2019). "Why we need to talk about the media's role in far-right radicalisation". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 5, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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