About Simon Reader
Businessman, part-time journalist whose articles have achieved international acclaim, senior student of martial arts yet man of peace - has the tastes of a southern European aristocrat and the tongue of a Parow-based tow truck operative. Likes: panama hats, petanque, the Amalfi Coast, Chopin, German engineering (and general vibe) and classic literature. Dislikes: football, football fans, football fans on aeroplanes, Iran's dictator, Iran's Supreme Leader, Polly Toynbee, Harriet Harman. Will make the best Syrah the earth has ever seen...one day.Website:
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Southern Write Notes: Year End…
When that mischevious John Robbie played straight into the hands of the sneering eco-Nazis moonlighting as ’social intellectuals’, the inaccessibility of rational participation was not nearly as annoying as the [...]
Read More(Approaching) Christmas Diary…
Only Emos and the British make number 2’s on aeroplanes.
When the monk Da Mo spent seven solitary years in a cave perfecting the martial art which would eventually become Kung [...]
A Terrible Crime, A Terrible Greed
“And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave [...]
How I Met Jacqui Smith
I have a recurring nightmare.
I’m in England but not London – 45 minutes southwest – in a nightclub called Pantiles in the Bagshot constituency. I’m seated around a bar table [...]