Simon Evans
Simon Evans is a comedian. His recent BBC Radio 4 series Simon Evans Goes to Market is available on BBC Sounds @TheSimonEvans
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
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction