The planet’s most expensive parade has always been a travelling circus, but until recently you had to bribe a local satellite guy, learn three dialects of buffering, or actually buy a ticket to the grandstands just to watch it. Enter F1 TV, Liberty Media’s attempt to let the entire globe mainline carbon-fiber drama straight into…
**The Great Cosmic Tease: When the Moon Gives Earth a Half-Hearted Wink** Across the globe yesterday, millions of humans emerged from their digital caves to witness a celestial phenomenon that has captivated our species since we first figured out that staring directly at the sun is a terrible idea. The partial solar eclipse—a cosmic event…
While the rest of the planet worried about collapsing ice shelves, drone attacks on grain silos, and the curious habit of central banks to print money the way college freshmen print term papers at 3 a.m., the United States devoted yesterday’s dwindling daylight hours to a far more urgent matter: determining the precise sequence of…
PARIS—While diplomats elsewhere were busy failing to agree on a joint communiqué about the weather, a 17-year-old from Los Angeles quietly reminded the planet that soft power now travels faster than any G-7 motorcade. JuJu Watkins, USC’s freshman aerialist, dropped 51 points on Stanford last weekend, a haul that trended from Lagos barbershops to Seoul…
The Seychelles, that perfumed comma of granite and coral flung across the western Indian Ocean, has long served as a convenient metaphor for whatever geopolitical itch the world needs scratched. Once a dependable postcard of honeymoon clichés—turquoise water, coco-de-mer nuts shaped like anatomically improbable buttocks—it now doubles as the planet’s most improbably strategic speck. At…
The Amex Stadium, a glass-and-steel bauble nestled between the English Channel and the South Downs, will host what the Premier League’s marketing department calls “a seismic six-pointer” between Brighton & Hove Albion and West Ham United. Seismic is a relative term: outside the EU’s post-Brexit customs bubble, tectonic plates are shifting in Ukraine, Taiwan, and…
The Chelsea vs Leicester City fixture, a quaint Midlands-London pas de deux, has quietly become the Premier League’s own Rorschach test for the global order. Watch it from a café in Lagos where the generator coughs like an asthmatic goalkeeper and you’ll see a morality play about inherited privilege versus insurgent hustle. Stream it in…
The circus has moved on from Miami’s pastel parking-lot chic to the altogether more earnest asphalt of Barcelona, which means F1 “today” is already tomorrow somewhere else. Still, if you squint past the carbon-fiber confetti and the obligatory shots of drivers pretending to read the energy-drink label on their steering wheels, you’ll see the same…
The gentle art of watching Premier League clubs court a 22-year-old Londoner who still looks like he’s borrowing his dad’s suit reached new levels of geopolitical absurdity this week. Cole Palmer—Chelsea’s resident smirk-wearing, left-footed chaos generator—has reportedly become Manchester United’s latest object of desire, a move that, on the surface, is about football but, beneath…
Cyprus: The Island That Refuses to Pick a Side (and Why That Keeps the World Awake) There’s a small, sun-bleached rock in the eastern Mediterranean that has perfected the art of strategic ambiguity. Cyprus—population 1.2 million, give or take a few ghost citizens—has been hosting the geopolitical equivalent of a group chat that no one…
Rome, Eternal City, capital of popes, emperors, and—on any given Derby della Capitale—capital of unfiltered collective psychosis. While the rest of the planet frets over supply chains, submarines, and the precise shade of Mr. Musk’s mood ring, two square kilometres of the Italian peninsula prepare to detonate over 22 men in shorts chasing a ball….
Cape Canaveral, USA – Another Tuesday, another column of fire punching through Florida’s famously humid sky as Elon Musk’s SpaceX hurls 60 more Starlink satellites toward their parking orbit 550 kilometres up. For residents of this swampy slice of the Sunshine State, the spectacle has become as routine as alligator crossings and early-bird specials, yet…
