simon jenkins in london to talk about british politics and history, journalism and architecture. mr. simon jenkins is the author of many books including battle for the fault land and a short history of england. >> now joining us from london on book tv is simon jenkins. here is a little bit about our guest before we get started in our chat with him. he served as the editor of the evening standard newspaper as well as editor of the times of london as well. he served as a columnist for that paper and also worked with the as political editor and he is a huffingtonpost.com blogger and the former chairman of the national trust here in england and he is the author of several books. he's written about the war and about newspapers, imperialism, race relations, government policy. three of your latest books include churches, margaret thatcher and a history of