Molly-Mae Hague and the Global Collapse of Meritocracy: A Dispatch from the End of the World By: A Correspondent Who’s Already Packed the Go-Bag In the grand bazaar of human self-delusion, few stalls are as brightly lit as the one labelled “hard work pays off.” Enter Molly-Mae Hague, 24, ex-Love Islander turned creative director of…
The Curious Case of Donald Trump X: An International Postcard from the Edge of Reason By “Grim” Giovanni Rossi, Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker PARIS, FRANCE — Somewhere between the croissants and the existential dread, the world woke up to discover that “Donald Trump X” is no longer a typo made by sleepy copy editors but…
The Return of the Gold-Leafed Meme: “Trump X” as Planet-Wide Shared Trauma By Luisa Branca, International Affairs Correspondent, somewhere between the duty-free shop and existential dread. In the grand tradition of sequels nobody asked for—think Godfather III, New Coke, or the 2008 financial crisis—comes “Trump X,” a freshly trademarked brand that sounds like a limited-edition…
Luigi Mangione: The Ivy-League Suspect Whose Arrest Went Viral on Five Continents by Dave’s Locker International Desk NEW YORK—It’s not every day that a manhunt for a 26-year-old Ivy-League graduate becomes a global spectator sport, but Luigi Mangione has managed the improbable: uniting the doom-scrolling masses from Lagos to Lisbon in the shared conviction that…
The Name That Echoes from Kyiv to Caracas John Solomon, American by passport, has become a sort of global Rorschach test: everyone peers at the same inkblot and sees whatever scandal they need to survive the news cycle. In Washington he is either the last honest gumshoe or a walking conflict-of-interest dressed in a trench…
The Classrooms of Babel, 2025 Edition By Our Man in the Departures Lounge When the first bullet of 2025 struck a smart-board in suburban Milwaukee on a brisk Tuesday morning, the world’s reaction was less gasp than shrug. CNN International cut to a live feed of a Tokyo vending machine restocking canned bread; Al-Jazeera ran…
Sage Steele: From Bristol to the World—How One ESPN Exit Became a Global Rorschach Test Somewhere over the mid-Atlantic, halfway between the Connecticut campus where Disney keeps its talking heads on ice and the Qatari capital that just bankrolled the last World Cup, Sage Steele’s lawsuit quietly expired this spring. No trumpet, no ticker-tape—just a…
The Welsh-English Love Story That Quietly Conquered the Planet By our resident correspondent, still recovering from the cultural whiplash of discovering that a modest sitcom about two families can do what NATO summits cannot: make disparate nations laugh at the same joke. In the grand geopolitical chessboard of 2024—where AI threatens elections, oceans boil, and…
The Vice Presidential Arms Race: How the World’s Second Bananas Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Spotlight By Dave’s Locker Global Affairs Desk In the grand diplomatic theatre, the vice president is usually the understudy who spends opening night double-checking that the presidential fly is zipped. Yet from Nairobi to New Delhi, Caracas to…
From the other side of the Atlantic, America looks a bit like that friend who keeps insisting they’re “totally fine” while juggling chainsaws and quoting self-help slogans. The latest dispatch from the land of supersized everything carries the usual bouquet of fireworks: a former president on trial (again), a sitting president mixing up continents (again),…
Netanyahu at the Helm: A Global Weather Report from the Eye of the Hurricane By the time most world capitals finish their second espresso, Benjamin Netanyahu has already rewritten the day’s geopolitical forecast. To his fans, he is the indispensable air-traffic controller of Middle Eastern turbulence; to his critics, a one-man low-pressure system that refuses…
Paris, 02:47 local time – Somewhere between the after-hours bar at Le Baron and the fluorescent glare of a 24-hour pâtisserie, a push-alert pings on a diplomat’s burner phone: “A-list actress caught lip-syncing to own leaked voice notes outside Nobu Malibu.” The attaché sighs, orders another espresso martini, and forwards the link to a colleague…
