Saturday 04 July 2009 Media Standards Trust

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  • Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He has edited the Times and the London Evening Standard.
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  • Simon Jenkins has written articles published in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Sunday Times.
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Most Recent article

As soldiers die, the MoD is stockpiling for the cold war

The Guardian, today
Defence ministers are too concerned with showing off their military muscle to provide what fighting forces actually need

Simon Jenkins has written...

  • More about 'brown' than anything else
  • A lot about 'labour' in the last month

Simon Jenkins by numbers...

  • 264 articles (since May 2007)
  • Average article: 40 column inches (1187 words)
  • Shortest article: 11 column inches (336 words)
  • Longest article: 91 column inches (2722 words)
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The topics Simon Jenkins mentions most:

 americans   blair   brown   cameron   europe   european   gordon brown   labour   london   nato   obama   olympics   russia   taliban   thatcher   tony blair   tory   treasury   washington   whitehall 

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