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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 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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March 2024

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 It is out of date and wrong

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

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    Putin is a dictator and a tyrant, but other forces also sustain him – and the west needs to understand them

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    Loyalty was once the glue that held the Tories together. But now they’ve come unstuck

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  • Britain’s prison system is brutal and broken. Why does reforming it seem so impossible?

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  • The moral of Kate’s picture-editing debacle is simple: the royal family should tell all

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  • Put yourself in the shoes of a Donald Trump voter – and understand what drives his success

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  • Nato is growing reckless over Ukraine – and Russia’s German military leak proves it

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  • Like a pub argument on Love Island – The Jury TV series shows all that’s wrong with Britain’s judicial system

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February 2024

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    The money Sunak ‘saves’ from HS2 seems to be shrinking with every announcement

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    While the PM makes empty promises to the north, he lacks the courage to cancel the white elephant London-Birmingham line, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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    It’s unhenged: millions will be denied one of England’s greatest views

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    A high court judge has ruled to allow the £1.7bn Stonehenge tunnel – and robbed motorists of a precious glimpse of something ancient, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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    The right to roam … but you have to trespass to get there. England’s countryside rules are truly absurd

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    It is a scandal that 2,500 beauty spots are designated as places to walk and enjoy, but no one can legally reach them except the landowners, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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