Simon Jenkins
Columnist at The Guardian
Columnist at Evening Standard
Simon Jenkins, journalist and author. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the Evening Standard.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Simon Jenkins
At next week’s local elections, few will be voting on how their council is run. They will be passing judgment on Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and other national figures. Local democracy no longer thrives in Britain. An opinion poll would be cheaper. Cut to the humble youth club. I supported a private charity in my old borough of Camden, north London, that was struggling to turn young people, mostly in their teens, away from a life of crime. The local council-run youth club had been forced to close.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Simon Jenkins
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Simon Jenkins
I remember being 16 in the 1960s. The prime ministerseemed geriatric and I was sure he should be in care, while a group of us went to meet our young MP, a certain Margaret Thatcher. She was young, but she didn’t seem as if she was with the times. We could not dream of voting for someone like her. Matter closed. Sixteen-year-olds are great fun but they are not grown up. They cannot marry in England and Wales, drive, smoke, get a tattoo or buy alcohol on their own.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Simon Jenkins
Among the more improbable countries that Donald Trump punished most severely last week was Syria, with a 41% tariff in retaliation for its part in the “raping and plundering” of the US economy. That should teach it a lesson for toppling Bashar al-Assad last year. The Damascus regime that subsequently came to power is pleading for help in keeping order and restoring its economy. But the chief obstacle is not Trump’s absurd tariff – now reduced to 10%.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Simon Jenkins
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