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2 weeks ago | 
spiked-online.com | Simone Hanna
Trump’s ban on American officials dating Chinese citizens is joyless and draconian.
Share Topics Politics USA World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Donald Trump that ‘love’ is his third-favourite word, behind ‘god’ and ‘religion’. ‘Tariff’, he said, is his fourth favourite.
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4 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Simone Hanna
Those of us who signed up for DNA testing kits from 23andMe did so thinking we’d unlock deep ancestral secrets. Maybe we’d discover we had royal blood, or finally settle the family debate over whether great-grandpa Dmitri was really Kenyan after all. Often, the results were far less conclusive: the tests revealed that we were 12 per cent Neanderthal, distantly related to Genghis Khan’s less-heralded cousin, Mungo, and possibly allergic to liquorice. Not uninteresting, but not that exciting, either.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Simone Hanna
Reform UK has been riding high in the polls for months, capitalising on voter frustration and positioning itself as the insurgent force on the Right. But with four years to go until the next election, the party already seems determined to self-sabotage, within a week going from talking about being the “real opposition” to looking like a pop-up Christmas market – appearing overnight, making lots of noise and then vanishing without trace.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Simone Hanna
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Simone Hanna
One can only marvel at Britain’s contradictory approach to obesity. On one hand, the Government delights in shaming citizens into shedding pounds whilst guzzling up their taxes to feed the ever-hungry NHS. On the other, when faced with actual solutions – say, weight loss drugs for the clinically obese – fiscal prudishness prevails, and the NHS, we are told, is too starved to help.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Simone Hanna
He is Britain’s only MP with “Rizz” Recently, I found myself hopping onto a train to a party. Nothing inherently unusual about this. I am, after all, a woman in my early twenties with nights to kill, drinks to down and men to meet, but this was no ordinary party, and I was meeting no ordinary man. The train I took was from London to Clacton: I was going to Reform’s election night party. The atmosphere upon entering was filled with excitement, bordering on glee.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Simone Hanna
Environmentalists have turned swigging your favourite soft drinks into a hellish experience.
Share Topics Politics Science & Tech World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. I would lick a swing seat before I drank the tap water in London. I remember my first taste of it more vividly than my first alcoholic drink. You turn on the tap, expecting refreshment.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Simone Hanna
Relationships between colleagues should be none of our bosses’ business.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Simone Hanna
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds We British pride ourselves on our politeness. When the tedious conversation about British values rears its head, it’s one of the few things people can agree on. Not for nothing did Orwell remark that “the gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic.” It is how we view ourselves, and are viewed the world over.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Simone Hanna
Or, why the hell can I not get a drink after 9? There are no Shakespeare sonnets about the pub, but if there were, I’m sure the Bard would’ve said something like, “Wow, I really enjoyed that”. It’s a shame he didn’t, because he wouldn’t have been lacking for inspiration – London’s taverns and alehouses of the day were not exactly known for their civility.
