Protesting that ‘bad’ grammar should not hold someone back will not stop it from doing so. Accuracy is in everyone’s interestI say tomahto and you say tomayto. My wife says dahrling and I say my dear. We all speak differently, and some of us speak diff…
Boris Johnson’s military alliance in the Pacific is reckless post-imperial nostalgia | Simon Jenkins
The Aukus deal has enraged China and humiliated France, when British diplomacy should be concentrated on EuropeThe Aukus defence deal between Britain, the US and Australia grows murkier by the day. Essentially it is the outcome of an industrial dispute…
Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswolds farm is an ill omen for the countryside | Simon Jenkins
Rural England may be a far cry from the Klondike. But there’s a gold rush going on out thereIn 2008 Jeremy Clarkson thought a little agriculture on the side might do him good. He bought a farm in fashionable Cotswold country, acquired a Lamborghini tra…
The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?Britain’s MPs this week uttered one long howl of anguish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, politicia…