Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon Jenkins is a newspaper columnist and author currently associated with The Guardian after fifteen years with News International titles.

A former editor of The Times and The Evening Standard newspapers, he received a knighthood for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours. Among his many other awards, he was named What the Papers Say Journalist of the Year in 1998.

Jenkins started his career at Country Life magazine then moved to the Times Educational Supplement and from there to the Evening Standard, before editing the Insight page of The Sunday Times.

He was editor of the London Evening Standard from 1976-78, and then political editor of The Economist magazine from 1979-86, when he wrote extensively about South Africa. After founding and editing The Sunday Times Books section, he was editor of The Times from 1990-92. On 28 January 2005, he announced he was leaving The Times and he joined The Guardian that summer after a break to write a book

Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

Simon has written books on London Architecture, Thatcherism and the Falklands War. His most recent books were on England's houses and churches and the architecture of Wales.