Simon Jenkins: The success of the British Olympic team in Beijing has been like that of British troops in battle

Now they want to bolt the stable door. With British troops at last due to leave Iraq next spring, everyone is for a public inquiry. That is fine. But what about an inquiry into where they are going, straight from the frying pan into the fire, from Iraq to Afghanistan? In Basra the British army had at least a tattered remnant of a war plan. In Helmand the only plan is to be target practice for the ...

Simon Jenkins: Today must surely see the state become a bank. But the chancellor has been hopeless - and Westminster on holiday

Simon Jenkins: How, and why, did we get to the point where bureaucrats in Paris have to come to the rescue of British public design?

Simon Jenkins: The state shirked its role while City stupidity and greed slid into thieving. When the crisis subsides, an inquiry is needed

In March 2004, Simon Jenkins wrote an outspoken denunciation of Tony Blair’s warnings about domestic terrorism in Western societies. The subheading nicely sums up the essence of Jenkin’s argument: Simon Jenkins says that Tony Blair’s Sedgefield speech was just another attempt by the Prime Minister to scare us into believing that we are all in mortal

Simon Jenkins: Those drooling over the free market's collapse are wrong: this passing crisis is down to lax regulation and craven ministers

Simon Jenkins: The press are idiots to condemn the model for cycling without a helmet. The real villains are over-active traffic managers

Simon Jenkins: Alex Salmond is about to learn that abolishing property taxes offers political jam today, but wormwood tomorrow

Simon Jenkins: Margaret Thatcher was a revolutionary leader who improved people's lives. The left's continued fury will serve to cheer her