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.
Articles By This Author
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
What Minnesota tells us about the fate of white liberals
You may have never heard the phrase “Minnesota nice” probably because you’ve never had to, but in the context of what has unraveled in that
Maybe international law is just rubbish
Barely a week into a new year and I’ve decided I’m going to conquer Robben Island. Yes yes awfully sorry about the history and so
Beware the wrath of the 15-year-old white boy
Local transgender activist Max du Preez was extremely upset this week, delaying some activities related to his annual octogenarian nudist summit – he was hosting
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