Simon Jenkins Quotes
- The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it
- 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…
- Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed…
- An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.
- If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it…
- The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard…
- 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, economics…
- 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…
- Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of…