Big Ben, the Clock, and the Empire That Still Refuses to Admit It’s Over By Our Man in London (still pretending the Wi-Fi works) LONDON—On any given day, a thin queue of tourists from Wuhan to Wichita shuffles across Westminster Bridge, selfie sticks raised like incense to a minor deity. Their target: the 96-metre Victorian…
Jimmy Floyd Is Already Everywhere By the time you finish this sentence, the man, the meme, and the metaphysical migraine known as “Jimmy Floyd” will have colonized another time zone. If the name sounds like a budget airline pilot who moonlights in reggaetón, congratulations—you’ve grasped the global absurdity better than most foreign ministries. Because while…
GLOBAL FENDER-BENDERS & THE MERCENARIES WHO LOVE THEM A dispatch on car-crash lawyers from our correspondent who once watched a Lagos traffic jam swallow an ambulance whole Lagos, 8:03 a.m. The danfo minibus kisses the rear bumper of a freshly-imported Tesla—an unholy union of 1990s carburetor and 2020s firmware. Within seconds, two men in fluorescent…
Brewery Lane, Newtownards: A Tiny Street with a Hangover the Size of the World Dave’s Locker, International Desk – Somewhere between the sixth pint of Guinness and the seventh lecture on supply-chain resilience, it struck me that Brewery Lane in Newtownards, County Down, is less a street than a geopolitical metaphor in brick form. The…
Alan Brazil: When a Breakfast Show Becomes a Geopolitical Barometer By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, Dave’s Locker International Desk The name “Alan Brazil” sounds like a low-budget airline you’d regret booking at 3 a.m., yet it belongs to a man who has somehow turned fried eggs, betting odds, and the pre-caffeine grumbles of…
Scratch marks the spot—whether on a lottery ticket in Lagos, a DJ’s vinyl in Berlin, or the arm of a refugee who just realized the camp’s Wi-Fi password is “Password123.” The word itself is a global chameleon: noun, verb, existential sigh. Peel back one layer and you find the entire planet trying to itch an…
An International Field Guide to Personal Injury Attorneys, or How to Monetize Gravity By the time you finish reading this sentence, at least four people on four different continents will have slipped, tripped, or otherwise obeyed Newton’s least-favorite law and discovered that the ground is not, in fact, optional. Enter the personal injury attorney—part litigator,…
The Transnational Ballet of Gargantuan Steel and Litigious Grace By Diego “Diesel” Morales, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Somewhere between the Malacca Strait and the M6 outside Birmingham, an eighteen-wheeler hauling Vietnamese sneakers took a corner too fast, scattering its cargo like a piñata of global capitalism. Within minutes, a German insurer, a Singaporean logistics firm,…
NEWSROUND: THE PLANET’S DAILY DOSE OF WHIPLASH, NOW WITH EXTRA SCHADENFREUDE By Our Correspondent, filed from Somewhere with Spotty Wi-Fi The word “newsround” used to sound quaint—like something a BBC announcer chirped between puppet segments while your toast burned. Today, however, it is the metronome of global anxiety: an endless, algorithm-curated carousel of triumph and…
Terence Crawford and the Quiet Art of Global Violence By A. Serrano, Foreign Correspondent (currently hiding from creditors in a Moldovan airport bar) Omaha, Nebraska—birthplace of TV dinners, Warren Buffett, and now the planet’s most polite destroyer of men. Terence “Bud” Crawford has, in the grand tradition of American exports, taken something provincial (the Midwestern…
Crash Course in Global Capitalism: The Car Accident Lawyer as Diplomat, Debt-Collector, and Existential Witness Dispatch from the intersection of rubber, asphalt, and human folly – everywhere and nowhere at once. By the time you finish this sentence, roughly nine fender-benders will have blossomed across the planet like ugly metal flowers. In São Paulo, a…
Cincinnati Weather: A Global Parable in Fahrenheit Geneva—While the Security Council debates grain corridors and methane pledges, an equally decisive front is shaping up 4,200 miles away on the banks of the Ohio River. Cincinnati, population 309,000, is currently auditioning for the role of “Atlantis with Skyline Chili.” The city has spent the last month…
