BBC iPlayer: The Empire Streams Back By Our Man in the Cloud, somewhere over the North Sea LONDON—Somewhere in a dimly lit server farm outside Slough, the ghosts of Empire are buffering. What used to be the British Broadcasting Corporation’s stately radio crackle has been reborn as BBC iPlayer, a pixelated Union Jack fluttering across…
Angela Rayner and the Great British Rebrand: A Tragedy in Three Acts, with Global Audience Participation When Angela Rayner strides onto the international stage, the world leans in like a pub full of expats watching the last dart of a tie-break: equal parts hope, dread, and morbid curiosity. As Labour’s deputy leader and self-styled “loud…
Olly Murs and the Quiet Collapse of the Post-Brexit Pop Empire A dispatch from the wreckage of global soft power, with sequins. By the time the first missile fragments rained down over the Red Sea, Olly Murs was somewhere above the Persian Gulf in seat 3A, rehearsing falsetto runs for an Abu Dhabi brunch crowd…
