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Simon Jenkins, journalist and author. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the Evening Standard.

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I’ll admit it: I’ve cycled through red lights. But Britain’s traffic laws are to blame, not me

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By Simon Jenkins Verified
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‘As a lifelong cyclist I admit to finding a certain exhilaration in riding a bike.’ Photograph: John Rensten/Getty Images I plead guilty. I have loved and used the streets of London all my life, as a cyclist, driver and pedestrian. Touch wood, I have done so without accident, blemish or insurance claim. Yet now I find myself perpetually on the wrong side of the law. Regulation has become bureaucratic and chaotic.
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I'll admit it: I've cycled through red lights. But Britain's traffic laws are to blame, not me

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By Simon Jenkins Verified
| MSN UK Verified
I plead guilty. I have loved and used the streets of London all my life, as a cyclist, driver and pedestrian. Touch wood, I have done so without accident, blemish or insurance claim. Yet now I find myself perpetually on the wrong side of the law. Regulation has become bureaucratic and chaotic. When I try to drive at the authorised speed of 20mph on many through roads, I am hooted at and overtaken by vans, cars, coaches and buses.
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Modern war is systematically erasing human history

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By Simon Jenkins Verified
| Taipei Times Verified
By Simon Jenkins / The Guardian Add TT as Preferred Source Wars might not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the Strait of Hormuz, a grim stalemate seems to have invaded the earth beneath. Aerial bombardment knows limited resistance and even less victory or defeat. Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Iran and their allies seem able to defy diplomacy and drop bombs on each other for ever.
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