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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

April 2025

  • A food market in Hama, Syria, in 2023.

    Trump’s tariffs are ruinous, but are western sanctions any better? Just look at Syria

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer hosts a No 10 business roundtable on 3 April in the wake of Trump’s announcement.

    The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will be gone in four years

    Simon Jenkins

March 2025

  • Donald Trump holds an executive order concerning tariffs at the White House, Washington, 13 February 2025.

    Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US

    Simon Jenkins
    The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Pupils sit a GCSE exam at Maidstone Grammar school, Kent

    GCSEs harm our young people. Ministers should have the guts to abolish them – and start again

    Simon Jenkins
    A report out this week highlights how destructive the cult of the exam is in Britain’s schools. But it doesn’t go far enough, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

    • Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy

      Simon Jenkins

    • When the horror stops, the key to peace in Gaza and Ukraine will be how power is shared

      Simon Jenkins

    • Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration

      Simon Jenkins

February 2025

  • JD Vance and Donald Trump

    No matter how distasteful we find Trump and Vance over Europe, they speak a blunt truth

    Simon Jenkins
  • Staff and volunteers at the Norwood and Brixton food bank distribution centre at St Margaret’s church in London, England

    Even Prince William doesn’t attend church – it’s time for a new Reformation

    Simon Jenkins
  • Donald Trump gives a fist pump.

    If Trump really cared about his ‘favourite’ US president, he would leave Gaza and Greenland alone

    Simon Jenkins
  • British Prime Minister Starmer holds press conference on migration in London<br>epa11745586 Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference on migration in Downing Street in London, Britain, 28 November 2024. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated net migration to the UK was 728,000 in the 12 months to June 2024, down 20 percent from a revised figure of 906,000 in the year to June 2023. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN / POOL

    It’s clear Britain can’t survive without immigration. Now Labour must convince voters

    Simon Jenkins

January 2025

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    Starmer wants the economy to grow, baby, grow. Woe betide the ‘blockers’ who get in his way

    Simon Jenkins
    By sweeping aside everyone from local planners to defenders of the green belt, Labour is handing a gift to Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Alan Cumming taking a selfie with Kirsty Wark in a TV studio.

    The government wants to future-proof the BBC. How about embracing a subscription model?

    Simon Jenkins
    Lisa Nandy needs creative ideas for the broadcaster. A hybrid funding settlement could protect its Reithian tradition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • A packed House of Commons awaits the result of the assisted dying debate, which heard emotional testimonies from many MPs, 29 November 2024.

    I don’t want to hear MPs’ personal testimonies in parliament. Issues like assisted dying are for heads, not hearts

    Simon Jenkins
    On matters of war, of life and death, we hear emotional stories from politicians. It may be engaging, but I’m not sure it is right, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

December 2024

  • Jeju Air CEO Kim E-bae , left, and other executive members bow in apology to relatives of passengers at the Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP)

    Here’s a tip for the world’s politicians: sorry shouldn’t be the hardest word

    Simon Jenkins
    There is a clear benefit in taking responsibility for mistakes. So why do so many leaders fob off the public with obfuscation, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Potholes In The Middle Of A Mountain Road<br>Pothole Britain for G2 - Web

    Potholes everywhere, shoplifters rampant – today’s Britain looks as broken as it feels

    Simon Jenkins
    This is what happens when power over public services is stripped from local councils and handed to Whitehall, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

    • If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them

      Simon Jenkins

    • Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy

      Simon Jenkins

    • Biden pardons his son, Trump will absolve his criminal allies. America shouldn’t stand for this

      Simon Jenkins

November 2024

  • A group of 10 people standing in front of the Houses of Parliament, next to a number of small trees with pink notes hanging from the branches.

    It’s outrageous that religious faith is being brought into the assisted dying debate

    Simon Jenkins
    Britain is a largely secular country. Those who oppose the bill before parliament should not be interfering with other people’s right to choose for themselves, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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