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Tim Lewis: The Quiet Puppet-Master Turning Arsenal into a Global War Machine of Data, Debt, and Dark Delight
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Tim Lewis, Arsenal’s quietly lethal non-executive director, has spent the last three years doing something that would make most arms dealers blush: weaponising a football club. In boardrooms from Mayfair to Manhattan, the former City lawyer—nicknamed “the scalpel” by colleagues who still have their fingernails—has overseen the transformation of Arsenal from well-mannered London ornament to…

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Analysis | International

Jennifer Tilly: Global Poker Queen, Camp Empress, and Last Icon of a Drowning World
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Jennifer Tilly: The Last Diva Standing at the Collapsing Poker Table of Civilization by Dave’s International Desk Somewhere between the ninth orbit of a €100k pot-limit Omaha hand in Monte Carlo and the red-carpet flashbulbs of the Cannes Marché du Film, Jennifer Tilly continues to cash in on a currency that most of humanity has…

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Analysis | International

Azerbaijan: Where Oil, Drones, and Eurovision Glitter Meet the New Silk Road
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

BAKU—Somewhere between the Caspian Sea’s oily sheen and the Caucasus’ perpetual family feud sits Azerbaijan, a country that has turned geopolitical whiplash into a national sport. For outsiders, it’s the place that keeps winning Eurovision despite democracy scores that make North Korea wince. For energy traders, it’s the pipeline that lets Europe pretend it isn’t…

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Analysis | International

James May: The Last Slow Man Standing Between Us and the End of the World
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

James May, the man who once spent eight hours gluing together a 1:32 scale Airfix Spitfire while the rest of us were doom-scrolling about the end of the world, has quietly become the last credible moral voice in global television. This is, of course, the same television industry that just green-lit “Celebrity Cage Fight: Climate…

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International | Sports

The Slaven Bilić Paradox: How a Croatian Rockstar Manager Exposed Football’s Beautiful Lie to the World
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

**The Slaven Bilić Paradox: How a Croatian Rockstar Exposed the Beautiful Lie of Modern Football** In the grand theater of Premier League management, where tactical geniuses are born and buried within eighteen-month cycles, Slaven Bilić’s West Ham tenure reads like a particularly Balkan tragedy—with better hair and worse endings. The Croatian’s doomed expedition at the…

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Analysis | International

Durham University: Britain’s Gothic Assembly Line for the Global Elite
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Durham, England – In the grand casino of global higher education, where Harvard chips cost the GDP of a small island nation and Oxford’s croupiers still wear Tudor ruffs for branding purposes, Durham University sits at the high-rollers’ table with the quiet menace of a poker player who’s already mortgaged the family castle. To the…

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Analysis | International

Global Hangover: How the House of Guinness Became the World’s Most Intoxicating Metaphor
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Somewhere between Dublin’s Liffey and Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge, the phrase “House of Guinness” now carries a weight heavier than its original 1759 gravity. Once a humble brewery scribbled on parchment by Arthur Guinness—who, legend insists, signed a 9,000-year lease because even then the Irish hedged against Brexit—the name has metastasized into a multinational metaphor…

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International | Trending

Lewis Capaldi’s Hyde Park Concert Unites World’s Heartbroken in Spectacular Display of Globalized Grief
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

**Lewis Capaldi at Hyde Park: A Global Gathering of the Emotionally Exhausted** Lewis Capaldi’s recent Hyde Park performance wasn’t just another concert—it was a planetary summit of the perpetually heartbroken, a United Nations of romantic disappointment where delegates arrived armed with tissues rather than briefcases. While the Scottish singer-songwriter belted out his signature melancholic anthems…

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International | Sports

Sebastian Korda: The Soft-Power Serve That’s Quietly Redrawing the Global Tennis Map
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

In the grand geopolitical chessboard that is professional tennis, Sebastian Korda has emerged as the polite, weaponized neoliberal son-in-law your oligarch uncle never saw coming. The 23-year-old Floridian, currently swinging a racquet like it’s a last-ditch trade agreement, carries a surname that once belonged to Cold-War ping-pong diplomacy and now belongs to the algorithmic feed…

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Current Events | International

Phoenix on the Brink: How America’s Fastest-Growing Desert City Became the World’s Cautionary Tale
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Phoenix, Arizona—population 1.7 million, average July temperature roughly equivalent to the surface of Mercury—has always marketed itself as the city that rose from dusty obscurity to become America’s fastest-growing desert mirage. Yet the mythic bird on the municipal seal is beginning to look less like a symbol of rebirth and more like a canary in…

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Current Events | International

The Planet-Wide Plague Tour: How COVID-19 Became the First Truly Global Citizen
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

The Great Global Cough: How a Microscopic Squatter Redrew Borders Without a Passport It began, as all grand tragedies do, with a shrug. Somewhere between a wet market and a virology lab—location still hotly debated by people who’ve never run a PCR in their lives—a spiky little freeloader packed its bags, bought a one-way ticket…

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International | Trending

Radio 2: The Last Imperial Broadcast—How Britain’s Middle-Aged Mixtape Just Might Rule the World
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

The BBC’s Radio 2, that venerable sound-track to British middle age, has lately become a diplomatic incident waiting to happen. From Jakarta to Johannesburg, expats tune in via VPNs, pretending the shipping forecast still concerns them, while governments from Brasília to Beijing monitor its playlist for signs of imperial relapse. After all, when a 55-year-old…

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