Jake Wallis Simons
@JakeWSimons

Columns: @Telegraph. Podcast: @The_Brink_ (with @Mr_Andrew_Fox). My ‘Thinking HQ’: Substack. New book: ‘Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself’

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The best thing about the Piker-Corbyn love-in? The styling

This is a free article from my Substack. For more, check it out here. I can’t stop looking at the styling. Chef’s kiss on that colour palette: more browns and mustards than anybody has seen since the

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Do British Jews still support Israel?

On BBC Radio 4’s PM this week, presenter Evan Davis put me up against Hannah Weisfeld of leftwing Jewish organisation Yachad UK to adjudicate a row the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, set off this week:

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What have the Palestinians ever done for us?

I was on Talk TV this morning, and spent a fair portion of it doing arithmetic. About 530,000 Jews live beyond the Green Line. The overwhelming majority are in towns a few minutes from Jerusalem

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Who’s afraid of the West Bank settlers?

Andy Burnham is said to be weeks away from banning trade with the Israeli settlements. This is a policy demanded by more than 140 Labour MPs, championed by Ed Miliband at the Foreign Office, and

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Lord Sikka should hang his head in shame for comparing Reform’s policies to ‘Auschwitz’

It was the sixth time. That is the detail which turns Lord Sikka’s post from a moment of rhetorical incontinence into something considerably worse. Responding to Reform’s plan to move foreign-born

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What this most depraved of crimes tells us about uncontrolled migration

This week, a jury in Harrow convicted a man of a crime so depraved that I can’t bring myself to open with it. I’ll grit my teeth and do my best to return to the repulsive incident by the end of this

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The wildfire siren should be a wake-up call for the government to get serious

Pardon the pun, but which bright spark thought of that? The wildfire alert frightened the pants off the public – to coin a Covid-era phrase – thus drawing attention to the government’s woeful lack of

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The enemy we welcomed

The Islam Channel, Britain’s most successful Muslim TV channel, has been accused of glorifying jihadism and inciting hostility against the West. A complaint submitted in March 2025 by liberal Muslim

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Islam and the 'art of death'

The most influential, enduring and pernicious Islamist organisation to embody the legacy of Hitler is one of the West’s principal adversaries today, though most people do not recognise it. Dedicated

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What Edmund Burke would say about Andy Burnham's T-shirt

Just before taking office, Andy Burnham told the country that his appointment would herald “the most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years”, unravelling “four decades” of Margaret

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'We're not against Muslims, we're just against being killed'

Three stories came together this morning. Firstly, as details continue to emerge about the perpetrator of the latest atrocities in Berlin, why have we still failed to learn the lessons about calling
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Day one and already Burnham is doing stupid stuff

What is the question to which “Ed Miliband” is the answer? As of this afternoon, it is: “Who has Andy Burnham appointed foreign secretary?” Troublingly, however, it is also: “Which discredited foreign
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