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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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
Bad apples in Trump’s potential picks
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Nov 15, 2024
Aseem Malhotra is a British cardiologist who rose to fame during the vestigial tail of “Covid” and its political implications. Today he is being tipped
Relieve us from the smoking ruin of an endlessly formulaic civilisation
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Nov 1, 2024
Adriaan Basson, man with his finger on the pulse − News25 and all – writes from London: “Hullo,” he says, “Donald Trump is a threat
British invasion 2.0 – but this time it’s not the Beatles
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Oct 25, 2024
Do you remember that time in 2011 when Jacob Zuma, fed up with all the positive news emerging from the island nation of Cape Verde,
Mbeki kicks the hornet’s nest
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Oct 18, 2024
Thabo Mbeki has upset a bunch of white people and I pity him because I’ve seen what happens when a distinguished black man confronts the
The Gambia must colonise Britain
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Oct 11, 2024
A sort of boot sale kicked off last Thursday in a setting akin to a Safeway carpark, and the first item was given away for
The fall and fall of the Tories
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Oct 4, 2024
You may not be interested in England’s decline as you have your own mentalists – like Herman – to watch out for, but the decline is
Who is Keir Starmer?
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Sep 27, 2024
Those who say the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, is a vapid automaton good only for platitudes are wrong. He felt
Former Slave Owners Unite!
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Sep 20, 2024
Perhaps it was the imbecilic behaviour of last week’s US Presidential debate moderators, perhaps it was Kamala Harris deciding to be insufferable again – despite