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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World Cup Diary
Well, it all started on a Friday morning. Sky News’ best asset, a man named Jeremy Thompson who is every bit a gentleman as he is impartial, interviewed a chap [...]
Read MoreNo City for Old Men
His name is Wyndham Montbottom St. George Caincross. In Westminster he’s called Lord Caincross. If you regard a man by a Randian single-minded pursuit of success, and you believe success [...]
Read MoreBlighted, Buggered, Bastardized…Blighty
When Nick Clegg ascended to the leadership of the Liberal Democrats – a party once described by a future Prime Minister (who we’ll get to later) as ‘a void within [...]
Read MorePre-World Cup Diary: Scoundrels & Dead Horses
In 2002, amidst a famine he was complicit in arranging, then ZANU-PF Information Minister and party spokesperson Jonathon Moyo crossed the border in his Chinese 4 x 4 with trailer, [...]
Read MoreEaster Diary
The new 12th man is monumental. Something we dare not speak of, like skateboarding, is a grudging respect for Australians. An extract: an abandoned Greek baby is found outside the [...]
Read MoreThe Somali Who Sold His Soul
Conflicts between truth and perception rage when England’s Daily Mail headlines an article whereby the head of a body of English football hooligans encourages visiting English football hooligans to wear [...]
Read MoreHow South Africa’s Foreign Policy Was Born….
It is an evening south of winter – early September 2005 – in the nation’s political capital. Purple bulbs of Jacaranda line the avenues of the more exclusive suburbs; the [...]
Read MoreHermanus Diary
On the day white Johannesburg liberal scoundrels were preparing to depart their Ponzi – schemed Minaret replicas to attend the Polo in Plettenberg Bay, I was at the coal face [...]
Read MoreSouthern 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 [...]
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