Delta Air Lines: When a Georgia Peach Tries to Fly the Whole World By Our Man in Seat 24B, Somewhere over the Doldrums There are airlines that merely move people; then there is Delta Air Lines, an Atlanta-born overachiever that appears determined to drag the entire planet through Hartsfield-Jackson whether it wants to go or…
Great North Run Medal: A Global Snapshot in Pewter and Pretension By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between the Tyne and Terminal 2 Picture it: 60,000 pairs of trainers slapping tarmac from Newcastle to South Shields, a human conveyor belt of charity T-shirts, nipple tape, and existential dread. At the far end waits the Great North Run…
Tyreek Hill’s 170 km/h Florida Joyride: Why the Whole Planet Should Buckle Up By the time the Miami-Dade Police Department’s helicopter finally caught up with Tyreek Hill on Sunday morning, the Dolphins wide receiver had already treated the MacArthur Causeway like his personal Autobahn, clocked speeds a Gulfstream jet would consider respectable, and reminded the…
The Gregorian calendar, that cheerful fiction we all agreed to pretend is real, insists the Formula 1 circus is in town once again—this time in Jeddah, a city whose coastal corniche looks suspiciously like Monaco after a particularly aggressive sand-blasting. Somewhere between the call to prayer and the call to Netflix, millions of humans will…
