Howard Jacobson: artistic creation frees us from ‘right thinking’

Art can’t be judged by pressing ‘like’ and ‘not like’ buttons, and it should stand outside of ideology. Let’s forget thou-shalt-nots and remember the necessity of playFor some time now we have been in one of those “periodical fits of morality” Lord Macaulay found so ridiculous – minding our step, privileging the taking of offence over the giving of it, going in fear of people who have strong opinions when it should be axiomatic that an opinion is the least interesting thing a&n