Jade Little Mix: How a Brit-Pop Side Hustle Became the World’s Favorite Glitter-Splattered Diplomatic Crisis By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between Duty-Free and Disillusionment In the grand tradition of exporting manufactured rebellion, Britain has once again gifted the planet a cultural hand-grenade—this time wrapped in sequins, marinated in Auto-Tune, and labeled Jade Little Mix. What began…
Oxford United vs. Leicester City: A Timeline of Hope, Hubris, and the Endless Replay Button By Dave’s Locker International Desk In the grand, gilded amphitheater of global finance, where sovereign wealth funds play three-dimensional Monopoly with actual countries, the Oxford United versus Leicester City timeline is a quaint footnote. Yet to the planet’s 3.5 billion…
The Rugby Championship—formerly the Tri-Nations until Argentina crashed the party in 2012—kicks off again this August, and the planet braces for eight weeks of calibrated carnage. Four nations, one trophy, and the faint hope that the rest of humanity might finally learn to tell a ruck from a maul. Spoiler: we won’t. Still, the tournament…
Shane Warne: How a Man in Cream Whites Turned Cricket into Global Schadenfreude When Shane Warne bowled “the ball of the century” at Old Trafford in 1993, the planet was still divided into neat Cold-War time zones, dial-up internet sounded like a dying modem, and the phrase “global superstar” was reserved for Michael Jackson and…
Shivi Ramoutar and the Paradox of the Global Kitchen: Why Your Next Jerk Chicken Might Start in a Frankfurt Test Tube By the time you read this, Shivi Ramoutar’s new cookbook is already propping up a wobbly table in a Jakarta co-working space, doubling as a mouse-mat in Lagos, and serving as ironic décor above…
The Derek Carr Paradox: How One Quarterback’s Trade Request Quietly Terrified the Global Order By Santiago “Santi” Vargas, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker GENEVA—While the Swiss were busy polishing the Large Hadron Collider and pretending their mountains aren’t full of Nazi gold, Derek Carr—yes, that Derek Carr—ignited a chain reaction more unpredictable than any particle physicist…
Arsenal F.C. vs Nottingham Forest: A Timeline of Hope, Hubris, and the Slow Unraveling of Civilization By Our Man on the Touchline, Watching the World Burn One VAR Decision at a Time Arsenal versus Nottingham Forest sounds, to the uninitiated, like a quaint English domestic—two sets of fans politely disagreeing over whose turn it is…
Buffalo Won: The Day the Herd Turned the World Upside Down By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Geneva GENEVA—Somewhere between the yak caravans of Lhasa and the water-coolers of Davos, the phrase “Buffalo Won” started trending. It wasn’t the Super Bowl, the Indian Premier League, or even the Mongolian Naadam finals. It was, improbably,…
**Property Empress Sarah Beeny and the Global Cult of Domestic Aspiration** In the grand theater of late capitalism, where we collectively pretend that watching strangers renovate their homes constitutes entertainment, Sarah Beeny emerges as something of a minor deity. The British property guru has spent two decades transforming the mundane act of buying and selling…
Thunderbirds, or as most of the planet now calls them, “the flying ambulance that lands on your Instagram feed,” have become the rare military export that nobody minds receiving. Picture a scarlet jet screaming over a refugee camp in Jordan, dropping nothing more lethal than colored smoke and a promise that someone, somewhere, still has…
SUVA—On a humid Tuesday night, when most of the planet was doom-scrolling through inflation charts and wondering which border might combust next, roughly 20,000 people squeezed into the National Stadium here to wave phone torches at a stage shaped like a giant outrigger canoe. The Fiji Tribute Concert—marketed with the fragile optimism of a pop-up…
Silent Hill F: Japan Exports a New Nightmare, and the World Lines Up for Tickets By Dave’s Locker International Desk TOKYO—In the same week that global inflation refuses to die and the Doomsday Clock nudged another metaphorical millimeter toward midnight, Konami decided what the planet really needed was a fresh reason to sleep with the…
