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Evening Standard column

Simon Jenkins

Powers that turn police into judge and jury

You are warned. Never agree to a police caution for doing something wrong unless you are guilty as sin. You will have a criminal record

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Once again our leaders just pass the buck on drugs

Sacking David Nutt is hardly the 'brave' move the Home Secretary claims: the real target has to be the law itself

Even with no new runway Heathrow is still far too big

So is it victory? Sensational weekend reports that the British Airports Authority has abandoned its bid for a third runway at Heathrow remain unconfirmed, and indeed denied by the company

Rio must learn from our costly Olympic mistakes

Memo to Rio from London: enjoy it while it lasts. Brazil's winning of the Olympics last Friday was greeted by Pele in tears, President Lula da Silva weeping with joy and an entire nation ecstatic

You get what you pay for - and that includes university

Students may cry foul at calls for higher fees but higher education and London’s economy will be better for it

David Cameron talks the local talk - but will he walk it?

Tory low-cost easyCouncils could be a dummy run for Whitehall – as long as Mr Cameron sticks to his guns

You're his boss, Boris - don't let Paul Stephenson forget that

At last, a London row that really matters and where only one side can be right. London's police chiefs are demanding that politicians stop interfering in how they police the streets

We must support the Kensington road revolution

The new battle of London is to be fought on the playing fields of Harrods. The hellcats of Hans Town will mix it with the bullies of Basil Street

Now gives us back control of our own police force

I am a privileged citizen. I have a law officer on almost permanent duty outside my door

Nothing more than a bad New Year's Eve celebration

Give me a break. At least a freak show has freaks and mime has meaning. In the past 24 hours I have visited Trafalgar Square three times

Enough of digital fun - we want the real thing now

A funny thing happened on my way back from Springsteen at Glastonbury. I was driving across Hyde Park and distinctly heard Springsteen again. And I mean the man, not a recording

After the Chelsea barracks banter, can we get back to the brief?

So tell us about the play, Mrs Lincoln. For all the sound and fury over the prince, the architectural lord and the Qatari royal family, the Chelsea Barracks site is still there, languishing and wretched

Blame greedy bosses for the great Tube mess

Bob Crow is an easy scapegoat for London’s transport woes but weak management has played a major part...

Let Londoners be the judges of their beautiful spaces

The defeat of plans to sell off part of Regent’s Park is an overdue kick in the teeth for the planning mafia

Unleash the dinosaur

Free entry for museums is a relic of the past that is robbing London's cultural institutions of revenue we cannot afford to lose in a recession

Come on, Boris, free our streets of this clutter

Of all the places to start a revolution, the last on my list would be Ealing. Yet to Ealing goes the palm, spurred by a minor revolt in the equally unlikely Kensington and Chelsea

How can these sad exiles prefer cash to London?

Those now fleeing our tax rates did much to contribute to our economic woes. Despite this, we must pity them

Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead

Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need

The Met and its cohorts are out of control. Step in and sort them, Boris

The Met is in a mess and knows it. The reason is that nobody is in charge, and nobody will do what must be done, which is wind up the riot squad, fatuously renamed the Territorial Support Group. It has become that most lethal institution, a quasi-autonomous force within a force. It has become London's echo of Ulster's former B-Specials.

These expenses scams violate the spirit of the law – and MPs know it

It may not be fraud but as accusations of diddling the taxpayer reach the top of government we are owed more than excuses from those we elect

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