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Jake Wallis Simons

2 months ago | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

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Free cars for bedwetters!

2 months ago | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

Did nobody at the benefits office notice the irony of approving a £52,770, taxpayer-funded BMW for people who claim disability allowance because they wet the bed at night? What about all those vehicles doled out to those with Munchausen Syndrome, which, as Allison Pearson points out today, is “a psychological condition where someone feigns symptoms of illness to gain sympathy or attention”? But irony is in short supply these days, having gone the way of intelligence.
Shame on Rory Stewart and Alistair Cambell

Mar 9, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

Last month, when intrepid podcasters Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell bravely made their way to newly liberated Syria to interview Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — who had exchanged his combat fatigues for a golden tie and jacket for the occasion — it all felt a bit rum. On X, Campbell posted: “This is why we were in Syria. Long interview with fighter turned President Ahmed al-Sharaa. We discuss on RestIsPolitics tomorrow and the full interview out on LEADING Monday.
Jake Wallis Simons

Mar 5, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

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Suddenly the Arabs want to develop Gaza?

Mar 5, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

Stone the crows! The Arab League has suddenly found the motivation to formulate its own plan for Gaza in the wake of Donald Trump’s plan to relocate its population and turn it into an American riviera. Regional leaders have proposed to build about 200,000 new homes in the Strip. Leaked documents from a summit in Cairo suggest that they have taken inspiration from the Trump plan and are now pledging a luxury development but without first displacing the civilian population.
Has the BBC committed a criminal offence?

Feb 25, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

Quite how the BBC can have got itself into this fix is hard to believe. Everybody knows that the Gaza Strip is run by Hamas, which exercises total control over every aspect of life, or as many as it can still reach in its depleted state. Every media organisation operating in Gaza via proxy knows that permissions, information and access are granted by the jihadi group.
No, Donald Trump. No.

Feb 19, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

The Donald started reasonably well. How we cheered when he gave DEI a good bashing, then talked tough on Canada and Mexico, getting them to take border security seriously without having to carry out his threat of monstrous tariffs. Then came his suggestion for Gaza, which was more controversial.
There is only one solution?

Feb 15, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

Shortly after October 7, I wrote a column for the Telegraph describing the two-state solution as a “luxury belief”. It provoked a great deal of criticism. One commentator was so appalled that he devoted a column of his own to a response. His opening line read: “Still, in the face of the blood tide, we moderates sing the same old song of the two states.” This, I think, confirmed my argument rather than his. I’m not one of those who opposes the two-state solution in principle.
Jake Wallis Simons

Feb 14, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

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Feb 12, 2025 | jakewallissimons.substack.com | Jake Wallis Simons

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