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?
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song