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Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist, author and BBC broadcaster. His recent books include England's Hundred Best Views, and Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention

October 2025

  • Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping at the G20 in Rio de Janeiro, 18 November 2024.

    Britain would do well to remember where its power over China lies

    Simon Jenkins
    It’s ridiculous for the government to splurge on defence while it slashes spending on its most valuable asset: culture, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Trump welcomes Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to the White House on 17 October 2025.

    In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists’ greatest ally. That deserves our backing

    Simon Jenkins
    It’s a fool’s game trying to understand the president’s true motives, but do our misgivings matter if the outcome is a speedy end to war, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

    • The latest Prince Andrew abuse claims are a new low for the Royal Family brand. In this form, it can’t survive

      Simon Jenkins

    • We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it

      Simon Jenkins

    • Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot

      Simon Jenkins

September 2025

  • Place settings for the state banquet at Windsor Castle on 17 September 2025.

    Trump’s visit revealed a stark truth: Britain feels more than ever like a country stuck in the past

    Simon Jenkins
    The pageantry highlighted the fact that we have no vision for our future, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Illustration: Nate Kitch

    Starmer fancies himself a leader among leaders – but his tough talk on defence is just expensive bluster

    Simon Jenkins
    With the world in crisis, the PM is spending billions to back his posturing. But he has no clout over Gaza or Ukraine, and it’s time he acted accordingly, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Images of Donald Trump held by demonstrators during a protest demanding the release of Israeli hostages, Tel Aviv, 2 September.

    Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so?

    Simon Jenkins
    The former PM’s leaked visit to the White House is concerning. This scheme is an outrage that no other Arab – or western – state could back, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

August 2025

  • The Prince and Princess of Wales on their bikes in Moray, Scotland, in November 2023.

    As William moves to Forest Lodge, an era of pushbike royals beckons. Will that save the monarchy?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Students at a London school after receiving their A-level results

    As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Houses in Kensington and Chelsea, London.

    If mansion owners paid a fair council tax, local authorities wouldn’t be in such a mess

    Simon Jenkins
  • Donald Trump on his Aberdeenshire golf course with wind turbines in the background

    He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

    Simon Jenkins

July 2025

  • Classroom with teacher pointing at girl with her hand up

    Another way we are failing an entire generation: we must teach young people to speak

    Simon Jenkins
  • British troops board the last helicopter to leave Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as UK forces withdraw, 27 October 2014.

    This fiasco didn’t start when Britain leaked Afghans’ names, but when we invaded their country

    Simon Jenkins
  • Residents of Walshaw Moor in Yorkshire, the proposed site of Calderdale Energy Park.

    Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Kemi Badenoch speaking during prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, on 2 July 2025

    This was Les Mis in the Commons – and Kemi Badenoch couldn’t resist hamming it up

    Simon Jenkins

June 2025

  • Thomas Pullin Opinion illustration WEB

    Note to Starmer and the other sabre-rattlers. Why spend billions on weapons – soft power would keep us safe

    Simon Jenkins
  • HS2 workers watch a boring machine breaking through at Washwood Heath depot near Birmingham, 9 May 2025

    How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it’s time to listen to Nigel Farage

    Simon Jenkins
  • Workers in orange he-vis and hard hats look up at concrete section being moved by machinery

    Labour had the chance to finally kill off HS2. Instead, it’s throwing more money into the pit

    Simon Jenkins
  • Sadiq Khan stands in a cannabis factory.

    Sadiq Khan is right: Britain must decriminalise cannabis – or remain in the dark ages

    Simon Jenkins
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