The Tractor Also Rises: How a Middle-Aged British Blowhard Became the World’s Accidental Agricultural Prophet By Our Man in the Manure PARIS — In a week when the UN warns that soil degradation could shave 10 % off global GDP by 2050, the hottest export out of the United Kingdom is neither whisky nor royal…
A Name That Travels: How “Laken Snelling” Became the World’s Favorite Meme-Cum-MacGuffin By Dave’s Foreign Desk, still jet-lagged in three time zones PARIS—Somewhere between the espresso fumes at Café de Flore and the perpetual drizzle of a British B-road, the words “Laken Snelling” started showing up on every smartphone screen like an unsolicited life-coaching text….
Josh Brolin’s Chin Has More Passport Stamps Than Your LinkedIn Profile By Our Bureau of Expensive Mid-Life Crises, Geneva When the World Economic Forum wants a mood board for “late-capitalist gravitas,” it apparently just air-drops a 4K still of Josh Brolin squinting at a green screen. From the neon sewers of Seoul to the tax…
Gen Z Years, or How to Age Gracefully in a World That Never Learned to Adult by Our Correspondent Somewhere Between TikTok and Existential Despair The generational cartographers at Pew finally drew the line: 1997–2012. In other words, if your first phone had Snake instead of Spotify, congratulations—you’re a millennial fossil. If you learned to…
Generation Z: The Planet’s First Global Cohort Learns to Live on the Ashes of Optimism By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between Jakarta and Johannesburg If you want to meet Generation Z in the wild, skip the TikTok montages and try the overnight bus from Nairobi to Kampala. You’ll find them trading memes about climate collapse in…
