Simon Lincoln Reader
Simon Lincoln 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 is a partner at a London-based litigation funder, a trustee of an educational charity, and a member of the advisory board of the Free Speech Union of South Africa. He travels frequently between California, the UK, and South Africa. All on his green passport.
Articles By This Author
Body-cavity inspecting the Daily Maverick’s People of the Year
An aeroplane flown by a one-legged pilot suffering an episode of climate anxiety crashes into a homeless shelter. A train whose driver was cross-dressing for
I’ve finally found the world’s worst politician ever
Sometime in 2023 a woman with a stern expression and short jet-black hair appeared on the cover of a newspaper supplement. Now ten years ago,
South Africans are terrible at cancel culture
Just before the turn of the millennium, I was sitting in a flat in Stellenbosch when I got a call from a guy I knew
“Race-based” is driving everyone mad
In 2019, a white, former Labour MP called Angela Smith decided she was fed up with racism, and wanted to tell everyone that it was
Don’t let prestige media do to SA what the BBC has done to the UK
Whenever the BBC plunges itself into scandal, be it its own fact-checking division caught lying, or a hunky young intern waking up in a fire
What gave us Mamdani?
Friends of mine in New York, delightful, wildly successful fellows who have about ten jobs each despite none of them boasting an education past the
Was I wrong to show SA’s vigilante justice to UK liberals?
I am not a member of the National Liberal Club in Whitehall because I am a liberal or rather, the classic version: not a race
One to make, one to break, one to take … three South Africans and Keir Starmer’s Labour
On Tuesday last week I exited a reporters’ virtual briefing and was immediately anxious as to whether I’d accidentally ingested a quaalude. Happily, others in
Is peace racist?
The idea that Palestine should occupy the precise centre of modern intersectional grievance theory wasn’t conceived by Palestinians. It was rather by septuagenarian English boomers,
In praise of both Jeff Wicks and General Mkhwanazi
General Mkhwanazi is upsetting academics. They’re cross because twice now at the parliamentary ad-hoc committee hearing he’s scoffed at the idea that presenting a granny-disemboweling,