Richard Tice is what happens when a property-developer-turned-politician discovers that Brexit is not, in fact, a temporary mood swing by the British electorate but a durable export commodity. From the glass towers of London’s Canary Wharf to the fluorescent glare of European Parliament committee rooms in Strasbourg, Tice has become the living embodiment of a…
**BIBIMBAP AND HANDCUFFS: HOW A GEORGIA IMMIGRATION RAID BECAME KOREA’S LATEST EXPORT** *The global economy works in mysterious ways—Samsung builds your phone, Hyundai builds your car, and apparently, the Korean government builds your immigration enforcement policies.* In a delightful twist of globalization that absolutely nobody asked for, South Korean immigration officials recently descended upon the…
Paddy Pimblett and the Global Gladiator Economy By Dave’s Locker International Desk Liverpool’s own Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett, a man whose hairline looks like it’s been negotiating Brexit since 2016, walked into the Octagon last Saturday night and did what the World Bank, the IMF, and three successive U.S. administrations have failed to do: he…
**The Global Village Idiot: How Joe Rogan Became the World’s Most Influential American Export (Sorry, Democracy)** In an era where American soft power traditionally meant Hollywood blockbusters, jazz music, or the occasional aircraft carrier, humanity has collectively decided that our most significant cultural export is… a former Fear Factor host who looks like he could…
Lucy Connolly and the Global Ripple of a Very British Temper Tantrum By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged in Duty-Free Limbo Word Count: 610 The name Lucy Connolly had, until recently, the international recognition of a village fête raffle ticket—utterly meaningless once you crossed the M25. Yet within 48 hours it trended from Lagos to Lima,…
Walker Cup Results: When America’s Golfing Teenagers Become Collateral Damage in the Global Soft-Power Arms Race By “Lucky” Luciano Verde, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker St Andrews, Scotland – The scoreboard reads USA 14½, GB&I 11½, which is the polite, tartan-wrapped way of saying the United States has once again weaponized orthodontics and college meal plans…
In the grand, overheated circus of British politics, the phrase “Nigel Farage partner” does not, alas, refer to a plucky EU bureaucrat forced into an arranged fox-trot with the man who spent three decades trying to divorce her. Rather, it signals the latest curiosity from the international sideshow: the revelation that Farage’s long-time French partner,…
The Ballad of the Global Supertramp: How One Man’s Train-Hopping Became the World’s Favorite Escape Fantasy PARIS—In a century when passports are biometric, borders are militarized, and your phone rats out your location every 3.7 seconds, the word “supertramp” has staged an unlikely comeback. Originally the surname of one Richard Davies—better known to his probation…
**The Jaysley Beck Phenomenon: How One Woman’s Tragedy Became the World’s Mirror** The name Jaysley Beck likely means nothing to the average Bangladeshi garment worker or Brazilian street vendor, and why should it? Another promising British military recruit found dead at 19, another coroner’s ruling of suicide, another family’s grief splashed across tabloids—it’s hardly the…
Miss America 2026: When the World’s Prettiest Diplomat Waves the Flag for Soft Power Atlantic City, January 2026 – The sash industry is booming again. While half the planet argues over water rights and the other half wonders which streaming service will cancel them next, the Miss America Pageant has quietly re-branded itself as “Global…
The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards—aka the VMAs, or “Diplomatic Immunity for Sequins”—were held Tuesday night in Newark, New Jersey, a city chosen, rumor has it, because the airport has a direct flight to every nation currently under U.S. sanctions. One might expect a glorified high-school talent show to have limited geopolitical relevance, yet the…
Tokyo, 2024 – In the Land of the Rising Sun, the sun is politely asked to clock in a few extra hours because the national pension calculator is wheezing like a 40-year-old fax machine. Japan, once the planet’s poster child for bullet-train modernity, now finds itself the global canary in the demographic coal mine: a…
