Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment. — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“On his death even The Times remarked that, ‘never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king’.” — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars. — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain fought and certainly the most expensive. Its climax was total victory. Yet there was no parade, no medals, no colours hung in cathedrals. The Cold War saw no battles and cost almost no blood. Where… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share
The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science,… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
