Jenny Hjul

Edinburgh

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Reform surge in Scotland won’t strengthen the Union

1 week ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

When the voters of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse go to the polls on Thursday, it will be a test not just of local opinion but a verdict on SNP-run Scotland, in the approach to next year’s Scottish elections. No wonder First Minister John Swinney is worried. The Holyrood seat, held since its creation in 2011 by the Nationalists, has become a two-way contest between the SNP and Reform, with the latter quite likely to win its first Scottish foothold.
Why Ramaphosa won the Oval Office showdown

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

More than 30 years after the collapse of apartheid in South Africa, there are still some whites who bemoan its passing. “It was a good time, because we had no crime. There were no problems. People, blacks and whites, got on very well with each other. Everything worked”.
The Royal Horticultural Society has completely lost the plot

2 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Jenny Hjul

CommentJenny Hjul1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. This week as the great and the good descend on the grounds of Chelsea’s Royal Hospital for the flower show there may be some disappointed faces at what, to the untrained eye, looks like an exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.
A period of silence from Lineker would now be welcome

3 weeks ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Gary Linekar (via Alamy/ 2RB8GJ5)For the past couple of months, the BBC has been asking its audience to help shape its output, now and in the future. “Your opinion matters to the BBC”, said the online survey, asking people like you and me to have our say. It is part of the biggest ever public engagement exercise run by the national broadcaster as it prepares for the review of its current charter, which runs until 2027.
Labour must do more to champion the arts

4 weeks ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Jennie Lee at the Labour party conference in Brighton, 1962 ( via Alamy/ 2Y6ER5K)Labour’s mission to “turbocharge” the arts is yet to take off and hopes that the new government would reverse the cultural decline under years of Tory rule appear to have been over-optimistic.
On Greenery, Blair gets it right again

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Tony Blair’s intervention in the net zero debate this week took the political establishment by surprise, but not because he wasn’t talking sense – even Labour-supporting unions agreed with him. Yet, just ahead of a by-election - which Labour went on to narrowly lose to Reform - and local council elections, the timing of his attack on his party’s "doomed to fail" energy policy was considered odd.
Trust Shakespeare to reveal the mystery of marriage

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

The discovery of a lost Shakespeare letter has left biographers with a “horrible problem”, say scholars, because it busts the myth that the playwright’s marriage was an unhappy one. The accepted narrative that Anne Hathaway was an uneducated woman who spent her days in Stratford-upon-Avon while William was making his fame and fortune in London, now seems false.
Starmer must accept new reality of gender ruling

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Susan Smith and Marion Calder, directors of For Women Scotland, outside the Supreme Court in London (via Alamy/ 3APA36N)Let there be no doubt that the ruling by the Supreme Court that a woman is defined by biology alone marks a seismic change in British life.
Harry is more at home in a war zone than in Britain

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Prince Harry’s surprise visit to meet the war wounded in Ukraine on Thursday was in stark contrast to his earlier appearance in public this week, in court for the latest showdown over his security arrangements. Before his departure from Britain for a new life in the US five years ago, Harry was most in his element among veterans, and helping the injured is still seen as his best work.
RIP Just Stop Oil, you protested too much

2 months ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

The announcement by Just Stop Oil that it has, well, just stopped because it has achieved its aims will likely bemuse fellow eco warriors who thought the climate crisis was ongoing. The group, which became known for throwing soup at priceless art works and disrupting traffic, said it would cease high-profile protests after its chief demand, to end new oil and gas extraction, is now government policy.