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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

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
  • Putin sitting at a table in conversation with the first deputy prime minister, Denis Manturov.

    The west’s reckless escalation of the war in Ukraine will cause more suffering, for no strategic gain

    Simon Jenkins
  • Housing Construction Sites As UK Government Fleshes Out Planning Changes<br>Houses under construction at Whitstable Heights, a new housing development in Whitstable, UK, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Deputy Prime Minister&nbsp;Angela Rayner&nbsp;said the UK's new government will make it easier for councils to build on the green belt and restore mandatory local housing targets as she fleshed out Labour's plans aimed at delivering 300,000 new homes a year this Parliament. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it

    Simon Jenkins
  • The site of a Russian rocket attack on an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 11 November 2024

    What should Biden do with his remaining time? Get a peace deal done in Ukraine

    Simon Jenkins

  • Yes, Trump is awful. But if there’s a silver lining, it’s a chance for progressives to reflect on what they got wrong

    Simon Jenkins

  • What to do after Grenfell? Stop building these family-unfriendly tower blocks for a start

    Simon Jenkins

  • A huge, hideous Canary Wharf by Regent’s Park: this could be the result of Labour’s plan for HS2

    Simon Jenkins

October 2024

  • Trump supporters wearing red hats stand at a rally

    It’s easy for the British to insult Donald Trump – but here’s why it’s a very bad idea

    Simon Jenkins
  • All fall down … Glasgow’s uninhabitable Red Road flats being demolished in 2015.

    The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’

  • Abandoned church in Gloucestershire with a boarded-up window behind a rusty open gate

    The Church of England is panicking about declining congregations – here’s what it should do instead

    Simon Jenkins
  • Chris Hoy with his gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics.

    Could we all be as positive as Chris Hoy facing death? Perhaps knowing when we will go changes everything

    Simon Jenkins

  • Pylons rule and rural beauty is up for sale. Why do those in power so hate the countryside?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Starmer’s House of Lords reform only scratches the surface of its problems

    Simon Jenkins

  • Sudan’s forgotten war is bloody and horrifying – but US bombs aren’t the way to stop it

    Simon Jenkins

  • Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start

    Simon Jenkins

  • Former PMs have a wealth of experience. Why not put some on the Tory leadership ballot?

    Simon Jenkins

September 2024

  • A mural by graffiti artist Eme Freethinker depicting German chancellor Olaf Scholz after the country legalised recreational cannabis use on 3 April, 2024.

    Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas?

    Simon Jenkins
  • A woman working from home in her kitchen and smiling.

    Working from home is the great social experiment of our age – it’s too soon for the state to wade in

    Simon Jenkins
  • Sue Gray

    Sue Gray’s salary isn’t the problem – it’s the backstage power struggle Starmer cannot afford

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer with David Lammy standing behind him. Starmer is talking and they are surrounded by a crowd of journalists holding microphones and cameras.

    Keir Starmer’s missile bravado could jeopardise Nato’s careful balancing act in Ukraine

    Simon Jenkins
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