Simon Jenkins

What do we learn from these poppies ‘weeping’ from a tower in Derby?

For the sake of art as much as society, it’s time to stop remembering the war

10 November 2018 9:00 am

A cascade of poppies falls from ‘weeping windows’ across Britain. A 50-metre drawing of Wilfred Owen appears in the sand,…

Letting terror win

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Publicity and panic make us all accessories to jihadi murders

War still has the best tunes

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Why our politicians keep going back to military intervention, no matter how often it fails

Restorative justice

14 March 2015 9:00 am

The perfect retaliation to Isis is to repair and rebuild what they destroy

The war on rural England

28 February 2015 9:00 am

The coalition is letting developers concrete over the countryside, but that won’t help young people buy houses

Don’t blame the blob

9 August 2014 9:00 am

Owen Paterson shouldn’t hold green activists responsible for his sacking. The culprit was David Cameron

A POINT OF VIEW

12 October 2013 9:00 am

Until I plotted a book on England’s best views I had not realised how much people cared. Ask them to…