LOS ANGELES — Somewhere between the 7th-inning stretch and the next geopolitical crisis, the Dodgers and Phillies resumed their ancient ritual of bat-meets-ball, a pastoral pageant now beamed to 182 territories that haven’t known a pastoral day in their collective lives. From Kyiv bomb shelters to Lagos traffic jams, insomniacs toggled between BBC alerts and…
Hozier, Global Prophet of the Post-Apocalypse Blues By “Foreign Desk” Dave, filing from everywhere Wi-Fi still works So the world is on fire—literally, if you live in Greece, California, or the bit of Canada that forgot snow was a thing—and into this planetary barbecue strides a soft-spoken Irishman with a guitar and the voice of…
Arizona vs Kansas State: A Dust-Bowl Derby for the Age of Global Collapse By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Pacific The world’s longest-running reality show—American college football—returns to its regularly scheduled desert melodrama this Saturday, as the Arizona Wildcats host the Kansas State Wildcats in a contest so regionally specific it…
Monty Don: The Last Gardener Standing Between Us and Planetary Mulch An International Dispatch from the Frontlines of Foliage Dateline: Somewhere over the Atlantic, where cabin pressure and geopolitical pressure feel eerily similar. If you’ve never heard of Monty Don, congratulations—you’ve successfully dodged British state television’s most sedative export since the Shipping Forecast. Yet from…
The Curious Case of Jay Wynne: A Local Weatherman Who Accidentally Became a Global Metaphor By the time Jay Wynne’s Wednesday-evening forecast went viral on five continents, the man himself was already asleep in his modest flat in Reading, dreaming—one likes to imagine—of isobars and kettle steam. By dawn, a clip captioned “British meteorologist predicts…
Somewhere between the Charles River and the apocalypse, Tufts University sits like an ivy-clad bunker for the globally anxious. From a distance, it looks like another postcard of New England autumn, but zoom in and you’ll see a campus where future diplomats, vaccine engineers, and hedge-fund ethicists rehearse for a planet that may not bother…
London’s Forecast: When the City’s Drizzle Becomes the Planet’s Barometer By our correspondent in the bunker beneath the Mediocre Café, Geneva Let us begin with the obvious: “BBC Weather London” is not merely a forecast; it is a global Rorschach test disguised as a polite green-and-yellow map. A commuter in Lagos, an oil executive in…
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…
