Although his personal prejudices and cultural bugaboos are occasionally too much to take-and, well, whose aren't? God knows I tire of my own frequently enough-I am on the whole a big fan of Independent columnist Howard Jacobson, who happened to write what may be my favorite novel from the previous decade. Anyway, his column this weekend did an excellent job of expressing a discomfort with a popular figure that I had been thus far unable to put into words. READ MORE