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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

June 2024

  • Caravan for Trump demonstration in West Palm Beach, Florida, 2 June.

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

    Simon Jenkins
    The more the political establishment damns the ex-president, the more those outside its reach are drawn to him, says Guardian columnist 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

  • Schools should bond communities: faith schools divide them. Why are ministers making that worse?

    Simon Jenkins

April 2024

  • Campaigners, including many personally infected and affected by infected blood, gather in Westminster, London, July 2023.

    Patients maimed by infected blood, innocents jailed, lives ruined. We want real justice – not inquiries

    Simon Jenkins
  • Gondolas by the Sospiri Bridge, near St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 2 August 2023.

    That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

    Simon Jenkins
  • The state opening of parliament in the House of Lords, November 2023.

    No matter how bad the Rwanda bill is, a bunch of unelected peers shouldn’t decide its fate

    Simon Jenkins
  • Van with message from Cancer Research UK urging MPs to back smoking ban, London, 16 April 2024.

    The UK’s smoking ban is government meddling at its worst and most pointless

    Simon Jenkins

  • Britain has no business intervening in the war in Gaza. So why did it defend Israel against Iran?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

    Simon Jenkins

  • Even its old boys are turning on the stuffy Foreign Office. They’re right to do so

    Simon Jenkins

  • Scotland’s hate crime law may be well intentioned, but the police should not stymie public debate

    Simon Jenkins

March 2024

  • Judges resign from men-only Garrick Club in Covent Garden, London, England, Uk - 25 Mar 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14401108f) Exterior view of the Garrick Club as reports state that at least four judges have resigned from the club in Covent Garden following the backlash over its men-only membership. Judges resign from men-only Garrick Club in Covent Garden, London, England, Uk - 25 Mar 2024

    I’m a Garrick member. The exclusion of women is the opposite of liberal. It is out of date and wrong

    Simon Jenkins
  • ‘Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, is said to have been targeted alongside other parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.’

    Does China spy on Britain? Of course. But we have more important things to discuss with them

    Simon Jenkins
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