Simon Lincoln Reader
Simon Lincoln Reader was born in Johannesburg. He spent a decade living in London, where he worked in financial services, eventually co-founding investment marketplace Lofotr Investors. He writes a Friday column for The Daily Friend, podcasts twice week and is a trustee of the Kay Mason Foundation, a charity awarding bursaries to young people in Cape Town.
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The Great John Cleese Factory Defect
The Academy Awards were held nearly two weeks ago in Los Angeles. Didn’t watch – looking for meatier entertainment these days: if it doesn’t include a voodoo ceremony featuring arguing, gesticulating black priests that could result in the live sacrifice of a pop starlet, I’d rather just link up with a local progressive boomer inquisition, bear witness to some Sunday torture.
Comparing western progressive boomers and making them very cross
There’s probably no way to measure it, but it’s hard to think of more generational beef than today’s progressive boomers have with based Gen Z in America.
How bizarre
Delighted to inform you that World HealthExcellency Spiritual President for Life, Field Marshal-ess Jacinda Ardern (she/her), DEI, CRT and HIV, Kween of All the Safe and Effective Vaccines of the Earth and Lockdowns of its Prospects, Conqueror of the Incel Manosphere in the Pacific in General and New Zealand in Particular, has decided to settle down. In Sydney, Australia.
Mosiuoa Lekota was a better man than 100% of UK politicians
At an event in Pretoria in December 2003 unveiling a most unusual co-operation pact between American institutions and the Department of Defence relating to the provision of antiretroviral medication to SANDF personnel (reports at the time suggested a considerable number of personnel were HIV+), Mosiuoa Lekota joined a small group I was in, discussing student politics. I knew nothing about the subject; just pretended to sound interested.
Not even savages shoot Malawian gardeners
The Russians who came to London in the early 2000s never shot a Malawian gardener, despite leaving a trail of bodies all the way back
Make South Africa less England about Israel
Toward the end of last year, something unusual started happening in London. At pro-Gaza marches, already a weekly fixture in the professional protester’s calendar, the
There’s never been a better time for China to take over the world
One of the best social media accounts to follow belongs to a South African commercial diver named Rene Nel. Rene doesn’t do politics, but spearfishes,
The Darkest Prince
There’s a place called Lygone Street in Melbourne, Australia, that was once the patch of a violent thug called Alphonse Gangitano. Gangitano featured in the
The Trump cognitive decline conspiracy
I enjoyed a delightful thought sequence the day I put down Jacob Savage’s The Vanishing Writer, published in Compactmag and reportedly read over 20m times.
Why we hate Davos (despite never even having attended)
On the 9th of June 2020, Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab woke up as he usually did with wires attached to