

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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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

The return of free speech
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jan 24, 2025
If ever small hope existed that a generation of South African reporters, raised on despair and bias as we slept, would one day afford themselves

Into the depths of a fiery hell – DEI in LA
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jan 19, 2025
Few places are immediately as confusing than Los Angeles, which is essentially a collection of 44 Hermanuses and 44 Hawstons, each with their own names,

The crime that broke Britain
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jan 10, 2025
Britain started off 2025 being asked questions in the way that a man caught making love to a goat would be asked questions. This relates

Is Western civilisation “back”?
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Dec 13, 2024
With so much emphasis on the profound insights of local transgender activist Max du Preez (“bigot”) toward the end of last week, you may have

The shadow of the “Banana” republic
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Dec 6, 2024
The British civil servants, or mandarins, sitting around the table at Lancaster House all knew Canaan Banana was a depraved little bastard. They knew, but

Gloves off between Musk and Starmer
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Nov 29, 2024
Elon Musk must be terrified. Word in Downing Street is that a crack squad of diplomats and former civil servants is being assembled to travel

Bickering over Bekker
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Nov 22, 2024
Not content with moaning about Elon Musk (something they’re told to do by the YouTube channels belonging to US cable networks) or moaning about the