The Curious Afterlife of Robert Howard on a Planet That Keeps Reinventing Barbarism By Our Special Correspondent in the Global Cynics’ Lounge Let us begin with a confession: typing “Robert Howard” into any search engine is like tossing a flaming skull into a barrel of cultural gasoline. Half the planet thinks you mean the Texan…
Bagpuss, the saggy cloth cat from 1974, is currently enjoying a second life on four continents—streaming in 17 languages, trending on Brazilian fan-art forums, and inspiring a boutique line of ethically sourced felt mice in Kyoto. All this for a programme that was originally cobbled together in a converted cowshed outside Leeds with a budget…
Betty White at 103: The Last Global Consensus Before We All Started Hating Each Other Again If you mention Betty White in a bar in Berlin, a classroom in Lagos, or a noodle stall in Ho Chi Minh City, the reaction is eerily identical: a soft smile, a nostalgic sigh, perhaps a gentle clink of…
The Crawleys Go Global: How a Yorkshire Country House Became the Planet’s Favorite Fever Dream Picture it: while the Middle East was being carved into protectorates with the precision of a drunk cartographer, and Europe was busy stockpiling munitions like a housewife hoarding canned beans before Y2K, a fictional Earl of Grantham was worrying about…
PARIS—Somewhere between the first croissant and the third existential crisis, Andy Roddick’s name still flits across café screens like a stubborn pop-up ad from 2003. It shouldn’t make sense: here we are, two decades deep into the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic infinity loop, and yet the Nebraskan with the howitzer serve is trending again—this time because a TikTok…
Nintendo eShop to Close: A Funeral March for the World’s Smallest, Most Expensive Nation-State By Dave’s International Desk (Tokyo → Rio → Lagos → Your Couch) TOKYO—On a humid Thursday, Nintendo politely informed the planet that, come March 2025, the eShop for 3DS and Wii U will flat-line. The announcement landed in fourteen languages, which…
