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Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist, author and BBC broadcaster. His recent books include England's Hundred Best Views, and Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention

July 2024

  • British prime minister David Cameron, wearing a hard hat and hi-vis vest in March 2015.

    David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer at the Nato summit in Washington DC, 11 July.

    It’s worrying to see the prime minister cheerleading for war. Will Ukraine turn into Starmer’s Iraq?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Rishi Sunak in front of the black railings at No 10, with a downcast expression on his face.

    He’s beaten and humiliated, but Rishi Sunak has one final job to do – for party and country

    Simon Jenkins
  • The Commons debate on the King’s Speech during the state opening of parliament on 7 November 2023.

    Labour to win, Tories to lose: but why can’t Britain have radical MPs free to speak their minds?

    Simon Jenkins

June 2024

  • eton college playing fields

    Message to Labour: don’t tax school fees. Make private schools work for the public good

    Simon Jenkins
  • Nigel Farage appears on the BBC’s Panorama.

    Farage’s Ukraine comments were hardly offensive – other party leaders could use a history lesson

    Simon Jenkins
  • line of electricity pylons in countryside

    Come 5 July, an almighty fight looms. Keir Starmer, take on the countryside at your peril

    Simon Jenkins
  • Nigel Farage speaks to journalists after launching Reform’s manifesto in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, on 17 June 2024.

    Now we know Farage and Reform’s so-called policies. The worst thing Sunak can do is copy them

    Simon Jenkins

  • A Tokyo developer will demolish a building for spoiling the view. Why doesn’t Britain care about beauty?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Cut Rishi Sunak some slack – his D-day blunder is hardly the worst thing he’s done

    Simon Jenkins

  • I’m a floating voter. Wes Streeting has my attention, but who else has bold, radical ideas?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Crowing about the Trump verdict will only hurt Biden – populists thrive on claims of persecution

    Simon Jenkins

May 2024

  • BRITAIN-MEDIA-NEWSPAPERS<br>A news stand displays copies of the free London newspaper the Evening Standard in central London on May 29, 2024. A new weekly publication will replace the daily Evening Standard as the newspaper struggles to survive in post-pandemic London. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    So it’s goodbye to London’s Standard, my old paper – and to the heart of democracy, local news

    Simon Jenkins
  • Rishi Sunak visiting a secondary school in south west London

    Our schools don’t prepare young people for life. National service could change that

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer at a Labour general election campaign event at Gillingham football club, Kent, on 23 May 2024

    Memo to Keir Starmer: say change, change, change all you want, but soon our problems will be yours to fix

    Simon Jenkins
  • Stella Assange seen in the distance holding a microphone. A large crowd of people holding banners, mobile phones and cameras stand in front of her.

    Julian Assange has paid a heavy price for his leaks – the US should let him go home

    Simon Jenkins

  • For a bird’s eye view of British conservatism, look at sport. No wonder VAR in football is in trouble

    Simon Jenkins

  • Britain’s ‘most dangerous’ years lie ahead, warns Sunak. It’s cheap politics from a floundering PM

    Simon Jenkins

  • It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

    Simon Jenkins

  • England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped

    Simon Jenkins
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