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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

  • BCC Global Annual Conference 2024<br>Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch during the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Global Annual Conference 2024 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. The event is a key event for business leaders from across the UK and the globe to come together to discuss the BCC's Election Manifesto, 'The Future of the Economy'.&nbsp;Picture date: Thursday June 27, 2024. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire

    Kemi Badenoch wants to drag the Tories further right. That is a huge mistake

    Simon Jenkins
  • PMQs at the House of Commons in London<br>Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in London, Britain, July 24, 2024. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. IMAGE MUST NOT BE ALTERED.

    Keir Starmer, please – scrap the distasteful weekly brawl that is PMQs

    Simon Jenkins
  • ‘Harris’s urgent task is to weld a shattered Democratic party into a fighting machine.’

    Kamala Harris is no dominating leader – and that may be her biggest strength

    Simon Jenkins
  • 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

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

    Simon Jenkins

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

    Simon Jenkins

  • 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
    The sad decline of this nearly 200-year-old institution has culminated with a decision to end the daily print edition, says Guardian columnist 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
    Forget the military, but working under supervision in the NHS, care sector or for a charity could be hugely beneficial for many, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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

      Simon Jenkins

    • 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
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