Chicken Shop Diplomacy: How Amelia Dimoldenberg Accidentally Became Soft Power in a Deep-Fried World By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk LONDON—In the grand, gilded tradition of British exports—colonialism, the Beatles, and whatever Boris Johnson is—comes Amelia Dimoldenberg, a 30-year-old journalist armed only with a microphone, a deadpan stare, and the caloric equivalent of a NATO stockpile….
The Ryder Cup Scoreboard: A Global Thermometer for Western Civilization’s Grip on Sanity By Our Correspondent in the 19th-Hole Bar, Somewhere over the Atlantic If you squint at the Ryder Cup scoreboard just right, it starts to resemble the Dow Jones—only with fewer bailouts and slightly more tartan. Every two years, a patch of otherwise…
Tim Curry: The Transatlantic Villain Who Conquered the World, One Cackle at a Time By Our Man in the Green Room, Somewhere Between Belgrade and Burbank In the grand, grease-painted theater of global pop culture, certain figures transcend mere stardom and become diplomatic incidents waiting to happen. Enter Tim Curry: the Cheshire grin in a…
Harris English and the Mirage of American Exceptionalism By Geneva Desk, Dave’s Locker International Correspondent There is something deliciously ironic about a man named “English” becoming the quietest American success story in a sport invented by Scottish shepherds who had nothing better to do than swat rocks across rabbit fields. Yet here we are, in…
Alabama vs Georgia: When a College Football Grudge Becomes a Proxy War for the Planet’s Nervous Breakdown Dave’s Locker | International Desk ATLANTA—While the rest of the world spent New Year’s Eve stockpiling rapid tests, fireworks, or sheer existential dread, the American Deep South was busy rehearsing its own ritualized apocalypse: Alabama versus Georgia, college…
Russell Henley and the Geopolitics of a Quiet Birdie From Dave’s Locker International Desk In the grand carnival of global affairs—where TikTok algorithms decide elections and crypto moguls vanish into thin air—a 33-year-old man from Macon, Georgia, quietly two-putted his way into the conversation last month. Russell Henley’s victory at the Houston Open didn’t trend…
Rome, Saturday 22:30 CEST – Somewhere between the 18th green and the 19th hole, the Ryder Cup is doing what NATO summits, G7 communiqués and Davos panels only dream of: forcing sworn adversaries to sit in the same golf cart and pretend they like each other. Every two years, the United States and Europe pause…
The Man With Too Many Passports: How Tigran Keosayan Became an Unwilling Poster-Boy for a World That No Longer Knows Where It Ends and Netflix Begins Dave’s Locker – International Desk MOSCOW—When Russian border guards politely invited Tigran Keosayan to step out of his chauffeured Mercedes last week, the scene had all the elegance of…
Lagos: The City That Swallowed Optimism for Breakfast By a correspondent who once tried to outrun Third Mainland traffic with a bicycle, a prayer, and a half-charged phone They say every city has a heartbeat. Lagos, on the other hand, has arrhythmia. It stumbles, it races, it flat-lines at 3 a.m. in gridlock, then miraculously…
PARIS—If you drew a straight line from the Kremlin war room to the Hollywood Hills, you’d find Perrie Edwards somewhere on the flight path, sipping an oat-milk latte and accidentally destabilising the algorithmic order of the known world. The former Little Mix soprano—now solo artist, fashion house muse, and walking soft-power missile—has become a case…
The International Brotherhood of Last Resorts By L. V. Cranston, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker In the marble-floored courthouse in The Hague, a Serbian barrister sips espresso while drafting closing arguments for a man accused of turning entire villages into arithmetic problems. Four thousand kilometers away, in Lagos, a silk-gowned Queen’s Counsel pores over 200-pages of…
Travis Decker: The Man Who Accidentally Became a Global Brand by Our Correspondent Somewhere Over the Pacific Somewhere between the 14-hour flight from Dubai to São Paulo and the third lukewarm airline G&T, it occurred to me that Travis Decker is less a person than a weather system. Like El Niño or a crypto bull…
