Umm, anyone got a spare economics textbook to send to Sir Simon Jenkins? The worst evil economics can inflict on humans is unemployment. Not lower pay, poor working conditions, costly housing or enforced migration; just the lack of a job. To be able-bodied and out of work is debilitating to an individual and a waste

The bulldozer roared into life, emitting clouds of toxic fumes, and ground forward across the green and pleasant English meadow, crushing the cowslips and orchids in its path. At the controls were the mild-mannered John Slaughter, director of external affairs at the Home Builders Federation, and the equally inoffensive-looking Ian Fletcher, policy director of the British Property Federation.

This is just terribly, terribly, amusing. Several people have already referred in comments to Simon Jenkins’ article in the Guardian on tax today – which is very good (everyone has their day). I recommend it. As he concludes: Property taxes cannot be evaded, and properly imposed are a fair generator of government revenue. Better, they are traditionally paid in

The latest issue of the Spectator features an article in qualified defence of Rupert Murdoch by William Shawcross, author of Murdoch: the Making of a Media Empire. In it, Shawcross writes: ‘Simon Jenkins, now a Guardian columnist, wrote before the current horrors that Murdoch ‘is the best thing that ever happened to the British media and they hate it.’ He was right. There are obv...

Louise Bagshawe, the Conservative MP and author, and Simon Jenkins discuss the danger of so-called politically-charged words.

Simon Jenkins (no lefty) began an article in the Guardian yesterday with: "The British left is a disgrace." There is no shortage of those wanting to agree with him in the comments that follow, although most point out that if he is describing the Labour leadership of the last 15 or more years as being of the Left then he is sadly misguided.

The news that Gary Mann - sentenced in Portugal for football hooliganism - is to be extradited, reminded me of one of the finest pieces I had the pleasure to run during my period as Comment Editor of The Times....

I believe that the best response to the careening unexamined prejudice of the esteemed Mr Jenkins' latest article on Comment Is Free is a line-by line takedown...

It’s a small, but telling example. The Evening Standard ran a piece from Simon Jenkins, which included a bit of myth-recycling about what the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health had said about people clearing snow from outside their property. There were two problems. First, either Simon Jenkins or a sub-ed dropped the word “probably” making the quote

Well, continuing in my theme of talking about folk heading off to mountainous nations with more sensible tax laws than in the UK, I see that Sir Simon Jenkins thinks that Britain would be well rid of the thousands of financiers and other folk who are threatening to leave the UK because of high taxes. Jenkins is a rum fish: he is often quite astute in pointing out, for example, the damaging impact ...