BIZARRE: 15 - You Need To See This

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

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 Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022

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 Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022

The first thing Prime Minister Liz Truss needs to do? U-turn on everything she believes in

She’s a small-state ideologue, but all that matters is that she carries the UK through this economic crisis, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

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 columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2022

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 Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2022

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 Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2022

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 Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2022

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 Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2022