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
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants