

Simon Lincoln Reader
Simon Reader grew up in Cape Town before moving to Johannesburg in 2001, where he was an energy entrepreneur until 2014. In South Africa, he wrote a weekly column for Business Day, then later Biznews.com. Today he manages a fund based in London, is a trustee of an educational charity, and lives between the UK and California.
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In defence of an idiot
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Apr 4, 2025
The scene in the video of 25 March is a quiet street in Boston, Massachusetts. A woman wearing a burka and a white coat is

Bozell may be the US ambassador and he’s not housetrained!
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 28, 2025
For some time now there’s been a collective wish that Koos Bekker would rock up unannounced at News24 and hold court with an urgent intervention:

I could never stop following Steyn …
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 21, 2025
I couldn’t even try being impartial when writing about the broadcaster Mark Steyn because he’s all I’ve ever really known. Most impressions I have of

Smarmy Carney looking for a barney
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 14, 2025
There once was a BBC journalist – a Canadian liberal who was also an academic and wrote for London’s The Observer newspaper – who one

Can SA make biltong out of beef between Europe and US?
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 7, 2025
The beef currently between the US and Europe should be observed, because it’s instructive for the pending beef between the US and South Africa –

Slap the British Marxists who influenced ANC!
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Feb 28, 2025
When King Charles II returned from exile in 1660, he carried with him some impressive grievance. Upon his restoration he ordered the remains of the

The narrative is trembling
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Feb 21, 2025
This may surprise you, but South Africa’s most troubled editor, Adriaan Basson, doesn’t actually like Donald Trump – kind of startling because you’d never know,

Rasool not the man for the job
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Feb 14, 2025
Ebrahim Rasool is one of those politicians with the best intentions and the worst outcomes. A hooker could die in his hotel room, and it

The fig leaf of DEI
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Feb 7, 2025
Before an idea qualifies as bad, it has to pass through a series of tests, but Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, bunked those exams

Lessons from Zimbabwe
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jan 31, 2025
It’s the 5th of November 1997, and one of Robert Mugabe’s flunkies is loitering near the fax machine at the office on the corner of