Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with…

- Simon Jenkins

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intell…

- Simon Jenkins

If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free coun…

- Simon Jenkins

The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard o…

- Simon Jenkins

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

- Simon Jenkins

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain fought and certai…

- Simon Jenkins

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

- Simon Jenkins

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

- Simon Jenkins

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

- Simon Jenkins