Sir Simon David Jenkins was born on 10 June 1943 and is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.
16 Facts About Simon Jenkins
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Simon Jenkins was editor of the Evening Standard from 1976 to 1978 and of The Times from 1990 to 1992.
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Simon Jenkins's father, Daniel Thomas Jenkins, was a Welsh professor of divinity at Princeton University and a Minister in the Congregational and then United Reformed Church.
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Simon Jenkins was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Simon Jenkins was then features editor and columnist on the Evening Standard before editing the Insight pages of The Sunday Times.
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Simon Jenkins edited The Times from 1990 to 1992, and since then has been a columnist for The Times and The Guardian.
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Simon Jenkins retained a column at The Sunday Times and was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
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Simon Jenkins gave up both on becoming chairman of the National Trust in 2008, when he resumed an occasional column for the Evening Standard.
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In February 2010, Simon Jenkins argued in a Guardian article that British control over the Falkland Islands was an "expensive legacy of empire" and should be handed over to the Argentinian government.
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Simon Jenkins argued that they could be leased back under the supervision of the United Nations and that the 2,500 or so Falkland Islanders should not have "an unqualified veto on British government policy".
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Simon Jenkins voted for the UK to Remain within the European Union in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, arguing in The Guardian that leaving would provide Germany with dominance over the remainder of the union: "It would leave Germany effectively alone at the head of Europe, alternately hesitant and bullying".
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Simon Jenkins has written several books on the politics, history and architecture of England, including England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses.
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Simon Jenkins was a member of the Millennium Commission from February 1994 to December 2000, and has sat on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation.
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Simon Jenkins married the American actress Gayle Hunnicutt in 1978; the couple had one son.
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Simon Jenkins married Hannah Kaye, events producer at Intelligence Squared, in 2014.
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Simon Jenkins was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year Honours.