Simone Hanna
Simone Hanna is a writer who discusses society and lifestyle issues. Follow her at @simonelhanna
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
The sad decline of London pubs
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9?
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism