The Red Arrows over the Tyne: Aerial Ballet in the Age of Apocalypse By the time the first lycra-clad pilgrim shuffled across the start line in Newcastle last Sunday, global positioning satellites had already logged four coup attempts, three wildfires, and one cryptocurrency collapse. Yet for exactly nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds, as nine scarlet…
Red Arrows Today: A Global Spectacle of Smoke, Mirrors, and Geopolitical Maneuvering By D. Lockhart, Dave’s Locker Foreign Bureau It started, as most things do these days, with a red squiggle on a radar screen in a windowless room outside Brussels. NATO analysts, fresh from their morning croissants and existential dread, noticed nine Hawk T1…
England vs South Africa: Two Nations, One Cricket Match, and the Illusion of Global Significance By Our Correspondent Who’s Learned to Love the Absurd London—For 48 hours this weekend, the planet’s most urgent diplomatic crisis is not Ukraine, Gaza, or the slow-motion implosion of the Antarctic ice shelf, but whether a red leather sphere can…
