**The M3 Manifesto: How a British Traffic Jam Became a Global Metaphor for Existential Despair** LONDON—In the grand theater of human suffering, few performances are as consistently underwhelming yet universally relatable as the M3 traffic jam. While the BBC dutifully reports “severe delays between junctions 9 and 14” with the same gravitas they might announce…
**The M23 Meltdown: How a British Motorway Became a Global Metaphor for Everything Wrong with 2024** While the world watched Gaza burn, Ukraine bleed, and global democracy perform its best impression of a drunken tightrope walker, the United Kingdom—ever the master of prioritization—found itself convulsing over the closure of a 27-mile stretch of asphalt in…
The iron serpent, that 19th-century miracle we still pretend is the future, is slithering across the globe with renewed swagger. From Mumbai’s sweat-soaked commuter carriages to Switzerland’s punctual-as-a-Swiss-banker milk runs, trains are enjoying what marketing departments call a “renaissance” and what the rest of us call “the moment when humanity remembers it can move horizontally…
