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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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,
The “centre-left” are in trouble
The left, or those who pretend to be, are in trouble. I’m not talking about their control being threatened – they retain a firm grip
Lesson from London
Donald Trump is right: London’s Sadiq Khan is the worst mayor in the world, possibly since records of bad mayors began. In fact, you might