Simon Evans
Simon Evans is a comedian. His recent BBC Radio 4 series Simon Evans Goes to Market is available on BBC Sounds @TheSimonEvans
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East