Sherelle Emma Jacobs is a British journalist. She is the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph[1] and has written for The Guardian .[2] She appeared on the panel of the BBC's Question Time on 21 November 2019 as the only non-politician on the panel.[3] She has also been heard on Any Questions?[4] Jacobs is a Brexit supporter[5] and has been lauded by The Conservative Woman website as a rising star.[6] Jacobs rejects the existence of a climate emergency.[7]
Jacobs attended St Paul's Girls' School[8] and read history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London before going into a career in journalism. After working on the breaking news desk for Deutsche Welle in the German city of Bonn, Jacobs worked 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.[9][10]