The Empire Strikes Back—With a Mic: How BBC Sports Became the World’s Genteel Referee While Rome Burns By the time the vuvuzelas had mercifully fallen silent in Johannesburg, the BBC’s World Cup coverage had already been translated into forty-three languages, pirated across three continents, and memed into oblivion on whatever corner of Weibo wasn’t behind…
Laura Kuenssberg: The BBC’s Political Gladiator in the Global Colosseum By Dave’s Locker International Desk To the uninitiated, Laura Kuenssberg is merely the BBC’s former political editor—now elevated to Sunday-morning inquisitor on *Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg*—a job title that sounds suspiciously like a hostage video. Yet beyond Britain’s damp little island, her significance has metastasized…
The BBC’s rugby coverage usually opens with a brassy fanfare and a slow-motion montage of glistening foreheads, but zoom out a few thousand miles and the same footage looks less like sport and more like a ritual re-enactment of Empire—performed, naturally, in four languages and beamed to 180 territories where nobody has ever knowingly scrummed….
BBC News UK: The Empire’s Last Polite Broadcaster Tries to Stay Relevant While the World Burns by Our Correspondent in a Café with Suspiciously Imperial Décor, Somewhere East of Calais The planet tunes in each day—via shortwave, TikTok clip, or the backseat screen of a Delhi Uber—to watch a small island politely explain itself to…
The World According to Auntie: Why the BBC Still Matters (and Still Gets Yelled at by Everyone) By the time the Greenwich pips finish pipping, the British Broadcasting Corporation has already been accused of colonial nostalgia, metropolitan elitism, and—on a slow Tuesday—ruining the nation’s tea by running a story about oat milk. Such is the…
BBC iPlayer: The Empire Streams Back By Our Man in the Ether, somewhere between GMT+8 jet-lag and existential dread The British Broadcasting Corporation, once content to beam clipped vowels into crackling short-wave radios from Lagos to Lahore, has quietly reinvented itself as the Netflix your history teacher warned you about. BBC iPlayer—originally pitched in 2007…
BBC Cricket: The Empire Strikes Back—With Sponsors and a Theme Tune By Our Man in the Pavilion Bar, Nursing a Warm G&T and Existential Dread When the BBC’s Test Match Special crackles back onto long-wave each May, you can almost hear the collective sigh of a planet that has quietly agreed to pretend the 21st…
