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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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
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