Simon Jenkins

As everyone knows, the only way to stop the slaughter in Syria is for the US to work with Assad – and to stop worrying about what looks good.

The reality is that the eurozone’s managers care more about their loans and their beloved currency than they do about Greece.

Policing cities will always be tough, but that merely increases the need for clear political control.

The UK cosying up to Iran points to a creeping hypocrisy at play in Western military intervention.

The West’s insensitive handling of issues in the Ukraine created Russian President Vladimir Putin’s version of the Cuban missile crisis.

Defiant crowds may destroy an old regime, but seldom do they build a new one that endures.

There could be no more dreadful idea than to pour more armaments into the sectarian war that is consuming Syria.

While Rome burned, Nero put on fancy dress, stood on a tower and played his lyre, writes Simon Jenkins.

Cellphones may at last be falling victim to etiquette, but this is largely because even talk is considered too intimate a contact.

The Norwegian tragedy is just that, a tragedy. It does not signify anything and should not be forced to do so.

What would you do this morning if you were a Greek? Would you agree to your government cutting public-sector jobs, pay and pensions?

It’s for governments, not journalists, to guard public secrets and there’s no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks’ revelations, argues <b>Simon Jenkins</b>

Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world.

Our way of life is threatened not by an al-Qaeda nutcase, but politicians like former US vice-president Dick Cheney in thrall to a fantasy war.

The reason for invading Afghanistan seemed like a good idea at the time. Simon Jenkins reports.