Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on windfarms reflects the Tories’ failure to protect rural England

As the Conservatives squabble over planning and housing targets, England’s countryside is being destroyed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Will Labour really axe the Lords, that laughing stock of democracy? I’ll believe it when I see it

It is time for this institution to be replaced by a council of the people, but Starmer may not have the stomach for reform, says Guardian columnist...

According to the census, we’re now a land of many faiths. There is no place for an established church

The king and Anglican leaders should take note that if the country is changing, so should its institutions, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Dear PM, if Scots want closer links with Europe, why not? Let’s have a Scottish protocol

Rishi Sunak has gloated at the supreme court’s rebuff to Nicola Sturgeon. He’d be better off fashioning a proper devolution deal, says Guardian...

Professions, heal thyselves – only you can make the public sector better value for money

Rishi Sunak should take on doctors, barristers, teachers and academics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Rishi Sunak’s Brexit plans may be more sensible, but the issue is far from over

Most of Britain’s trade is with Europe, and Brexit has crippled it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The real ‘black hole’ in the UK’s finances is HS2 – let’s kill off this monstrosity for good

Successive prime ministers have lacked the courage to end this vanity project. Is Rishi Sunak any different, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Beware The Crown’s blurring of fact and fiction in this age of dangerous untruths

It might be ‘only’ a TV show, but the boundaries between history and make-believe need to be clear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Rishi Sunak has surrounded himself with yes-men. What he really needs is a Willie

As Margaret Thatcher knew, a PM’s success depends on wise advice – and Sunak should look to his backbenches to find it, says Guardian columnist...

Here’s the best way for Britain to solve the migrant crisis: give them work visas

The UK needs new workers and people want to come here. The real problem is populist politics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

M&S is a shining example of how not to treat the high street – or the planet

The retailer wants to knock down and rebuild its flagship store, or leave. It should do the latter, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Tories have one last chance to restore stability and banish Johnson for good

The parliamentary party must unite around Rishi Sunak to end the fiasco of the past six years, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

After Truss, it’s the club v the mob – the Tories’ last chance before Britain demands an election

The Conservatives know the people’s verdict would be devastating. But they can’t be allowed to carry on in a state of perpetual chaos, says...

Electing a new leader would be risky – but these are desperate times for the Tories

Getting rid of Truss may be the only way for Conservative MPs to save their skins, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Only proper online regulation can stop poisonous conspiracists like Alex Jones

A US court has imposed a huge fine for lies he spread about a school shooting. But he will continue to sow mayhem, says Guardian columnist Simon...

It’s time to banish Britain’s Celtic ghosts

Liz Truss says she ‘gets it’ – but how many more U-turns can she stomach?

A disastrous conference may force the prime minister to return to the moderate Toryism she rejected, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The best course left to the Tories is to oust Liz Truss – and install a caretaker leader

A unifier like Michael Gove could prepare the party for effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Truss U-turned on tax cuts for the super-rich – now she can axe the rest of her disastrous budget

If the PM and Kwasi Kwarteng want to stem public fury, they must go further, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Trussonomics has been exposed as a childish absurdity. Trussopolitics is even worse

The prime minister and Kwasi Kwarteng must now eat humble pie and try to steer Britain out of the crisis they created, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Pouring cash into London to solve regional inequality? That’s trickle-down Trussonomics

The UK economy needs the rest of the country to help reverse decades of decline, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Putin’s nuclear threat shows a desperate man out of options

Using such weapons has no tactical purpose – it would only lose the Russian president support at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Simon...

All this pomp and splendour proves it: without our support the royals can’t survive

The public mourning for the Queen has been a PR triumph. But this shouldn’t disguise the need for reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Why is Liz Truss sacking top civil servants? Because she wants to suppress dissent

This is government Trump-style, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Facile, empty and cliched – Liz Truss’s first week has been a disaster

The new prime minister made promises on the campaign trail she hoped would be forgotten. She is already paying the price, says Guardian columnist...

King Charles III has views and passions, but his first job is to reform the monarchy’s image

He will be a very different monarch to his mother. He should use that to his and the nation’s advantage, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Britain’s traumatised education system needs a break – and a decent minister

After two-plus years of Covid and seven secretaries of state in the past six years, teachers and students deserve more support, says Guardian...

The first task for a Prime Minister Truss: get Sunak back into cabinet

Her rival to the Tory throne would at least bring some coherence to an otherwise extraordinarily lightweight front bench, says Guardian columnist...

Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous

The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflict, says Guardian columnist...

England’s water industry now represents the unacceptable face of capitalism

Million-pound salaries for bosses, billions for shareholders – all while sewage is dumped in our rivers and sea, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever

The online safety bill in the UK is shaping up to be a censor’s nightmare, but we need to take this debate seriously, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Commonwealth and church leaders take note: the days of colonial prejudice are over

It should not have been down to the athlete Tom Daley to call out blinkered attitudes to LGBTQ people, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Who knows if Truss or Sunak is right on the cost of living crisis – where are all the economists?

The profession seems to have gone AWOL, just when we could do with a bit of modelling on tax cuts v handouts, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the west is flirting with disaster

It’s one thing to declare yourself ‘rather dead than red’, quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us, says Guardian columnist...

Liz Truss’s Oxbridge proposal is the latest vacuous idea from a slapstick Tory race

The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The ruble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever - our sanctions have backfired

Energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring and millions are being starved of grain. Surely Johnson knew this would happen, says Guardian...

There is one man to blame for the lorries backed up in Dover: Boris Johnson

Tory leadership candidates, as they spout their pseudo-Thatcherite cliches, lack the guts to admit Brexit is not working, says Guardian columnist...

Being ‘economical with the truth’ has a long history in British politics – but enough is enough

Liz Truss’s claim that tax cuts will reduce inflation are eerily reminiscent of Boris Johnson’s infamous style, says the Guardian columnist Simon...

Why the Labour party is praying for the Tories not to vote for Rishi Sunak

In the race for the top job there’s the alumni of Academy Boris – and then there’s the former chancellor, Keir Starmer’s biggest headache,...

The public saw Boris Johnson as warmly authentic, then devious and corrupt

He faced phenomenal challenges but had a disrespect for parliament and the public that finally caught up with him, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Johnson’s terrible legacy: the PM who held his party and his country hostage

The public, MPs and one-time allies in cabinet want him out. Johnson’s decision to face them all down is a landmark in our political history, says...

The United Kingdom is broken. It’s time for a new British federation

Celtic grievances can no longer be waved away by Whitehall, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Keir Starmer’s Brexit plan is a mouse of a policy – what is he so afraid of?

By refusing to discuss rejoining the single market or the customs union, Labour can’t deal with the ‘fatberg’ of red tape, says Guardian...

Scrapping the NI protocol is just the start. Johnson’s trade wars are Trumpism in action

Brexit has left Britain out on a limb. Yet the PM seems hellbent on alienating our trading partners to boost his own position, says Guardian columnist...

Second homes can be a blight and a blessing on British towns. We need the right balance

Since childhood I have lived some of the year in a Welsh valley. It is possible to become a part of the local community, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Whenever Johnson has a problem, he calls Zelenskiy – and the bill is rapidly mounting

Each domestic disaster is followed by a call pledging more aid to Kyiv – it’s the most expensive therapy session in history, says Guardian...

The answer to the Parthenon marbles dispute: George Osborne and a 3D printer

If the British Museum chairman is serious about returning the treasures to Greece, digital technology is his friend, says Guardian columnist Simon...

Get ready for King Charles, the monarch who speaks his mind

He has described as ‘appalling’ the Tories’ plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Don’t expect him to change, says Guardian columnist...

The west’s calls for a total victory in Ukraine can lead only to ruinous escalation

Whatever settlement is reached to end the war, it will be a compromise, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The storm clouds of Brexit and Covid have moved on – but Britain just isn’t working any more

From childcare to the courts, public service failures are causing chaos, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins