Simon Jenkins

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Who can prevail on Putin now war in Ukraine has started? Peace depends on it | Simon Jenkins China Russia Ukraine 2yrs
Britain should stay well out of Russia’s border dispute with Ukraine | Simon Jenkins Russia UK Ukraine 2yrs
Johnson’s imperial bombast could suck Britain into more deadly interventions | Simon Jenkins China Russia UK 3yrs
Johnson insulting France over Channel crossings will only make things worse | Simon Jenkins France UK 3yrs
Give the Parthenon marbles back to Greece – tech advances mean there are no more excuses | Simo... Greece 3yrs
Boris Johnson’s military alliance in the Pacific is reckless post-imperial nostalgia | Simon Je... China France UK 3yrs
Boris Johnson’s biggest lie about Europe is finally coming home to roost | Simon Jenkins 3yrs
The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins UK Afghanistan 3yrs
It has taken 20 years to prove the invasion of Afghanistan was totally unnecessary | Simon Jenk... Afghanistan 3yrs
Getting on the right track with HS2 benefits | Letters 3yrs
Simon Jenkins is wrong about the NHS infected blood inquiry | Letters 3yrs
Sanctions are imposed by the sanctimonious, and achieve nothing | Simon Jenkins Belarus 3yrs
This portrayal of policing as casually corrupt is an insult to serving officers | Letter 3yrs
Plaid Cymru has a mountain to climb, but Welsh independence is no pipe dream | Simon Jenkins Ireland Cymru 3yrs
What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan achieve? Ruination | Simon Jenkins UK Afghanistan 3yrs
Boris Johnson’s bluster is meeting the complex reality of Northern Irish politics | Simon Jenki... Ireland 3yrs
Scottish independence isn't going away. Will the Tories be its curators – or victims? | Simon J... 3yrs
The government must pay the farmers and fishers struggling with its bad Brexit deal | Simon Jen... 3yrs
‘Getting tough' on China makes headlines, but abroad nobody cares what Johnson says | Simon Jen... China 3yrs
 

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Boris Johnson would only have himself to blame for a no-deal Brexit | Simon Jenkins UK 4yrs
Trump has tested the limits of the US constitution – but it's still holding | Simon Jenkins US 4yrs
Boris Johnson has to stop playing games and agree a deal with Europe | Simon Jenkins UK 4yrs
The Iraq war is finally getting some proper scrutiny – from a TV programme | Simon Jenkins 4yrs
The Tories’ latest Brexit plans expose frictionless trade as a fiction 4yrs
Britain can't protect Hong Kong from China – but it can do right by its people | Simon Jenkins China UK 4yrs
As Europe emerges from lockdown, the question hangs: was Sweden right? | Simon Jenkins Sweden 4yrs
Britain’s approach to security and war needs a radical rethink | Letters UK 5yrs
The US and Britain face no existential threat. So why do their wars go on? | Simon Jenkins US UK 5yrs
If Johnson adds a customs union, remainers should finally accept his deal | Simon Jenkins 5yrs
Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan | Simon Je... US Syria Iraq Afghanistan 5yrs
Boris Johnson has to deliver a Brexit deal. And now he may be on track to do it | Simon Jenkins 5yrs
The London arms fair is an inexcusable disgrace – it’s a stain on the nation | Simon Jenkins 5yrs
Brexit, the backstop and the will of the people of Northern Ireland | Letters Ireland 5yrs
Boris Johnson should call the DUP’s bluff and create a border in the Irish Sea | Simon Jenkins Ireland 5yrs
The prime minister has a bust of his Greek hero in No 10. But Boris Johnson is no Pericles | Si... Greece 5yrs
The sea captain facing jail after saving the lives of refugees – podcast UK Italy 5yrs
On Hong Kong, Jeremy Hunt still thinks Britain rules the waves. He’s wrong | Simon Jenkins UK 5yrs
Selective memory and the D-day anniversary | Letters 5yrs
The wrangling to become Tory leader is turning Britain into an oligarchy | Simon Jenkins UK 5yrs
The EU election changes nothing. May’s deal is still the only way forward | Simon Jenkins 5yrs
Friday briefing: Push for meat-free day at schools Iran 5yrs
Venezuela’s dead revolution shows the limitations of the crowd | Simon Jenkins Venezuela 5yrs
The north needs HS2 for its economic future | Letters 5yrs
Nicolás Maduro must be praying for the US to intervene in Venezuela | Simon Jenkins US Venezuela 5yrs
Donald Trump has a point – the world should start solving its own problems | Simon Jenkins US Syria 5yrs
France’s political crises are always played out in riots – unlike Britain’s | Simon Jenkins France UK 6yrs
Brexit PREDICTION: Political commentator 'knows EXACTLY where Brexit will end up' Norway 6yrs
Our warring MPs should realise all Brexit roads lead to Norway | Simon Jenkins Norway 6yrs
Zip wire for the Lake District hits a snag | Letters 6yrs
Should museum artefacts be returned to the countries they came from? | Letters 6yrs
Forget Brexit, war in Ukraine is the biggest threat to Europe | Simon Jenkins Ukraine 6yrs
Give the Easter Islanders their statue back – it doesn’t belong in the British Museum | Simon J... UK 6yrs
Britain will go back into the European club. History proves it | Simon Jenkins UK 6yrs
May’s Brexiter anarchists are deserting her – but they don’t have a plan | Simon Jenkins 6yrs
Trump’s sanctions against Iran help the US’s enemies and weaken its friends| Simon Jenkins US Iran 6yrs
Fear and anger won the election in Brazil. It could happen here too | Simon Jenkins Brazil 6yrs
Sajid Javid’s immigration proposal exposes the insanity of Brexit | Simon Jenkins UK 6yrs
Economic justice is the very bedrock of Christian faith | Letters 6yrs
From Sweden to Brexit, immigration is the issue dividing Europe | Simon Jenkins Sweden 6yrs
Britain’s reaction to the Salisbury poisonings plays into Putin’s hands | Simon Jenkins UK 6yrs
HS2 and the continuing north-south divide | Letters 6yrs
Is execution Britain’s new populist ruse? | Simon Jenkins US UK 6yrs
Trump’s tweet to Iran cannot bully the west away from making peace | Simon Jenkins Iran 6yrs
Don’t worry, a no-deal Brexit won’t be allowed to happen | Simon Jenkins UK 6yrs
Blame liberal democracy’s flaws for Erdoğan’s win, not the voters | Simon Jenkins Turkey 6yrs