LONDON – Somewhere between an espresso and a stiff gin, the news reached Fleet Street: James Comey, the 6-foot-8-inch Boy Scout who once ran the world’s most glamorous police force, has been indicted. The charge sheet, reportedly thicker than the average Brexit impact assessment, alleges he fibbed to Congress, leaked like a post-war British pipe,…
James Comey: The Man Who Made Bureaucracy a Global Spectator Sport By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Watching the World Burn PARIS—In the grand tradition of international intrigue, few things are as reliably entertaining as watching a tall, earnest American ex-FBI director wander the planet like a remorseful giraffe, signing books and explaining—again—why he…
Across continents, from the marble hallways of Brussels to the fluorescent-lit cubicles of Singapore, one name has begun to ricochet through the global technocratic echo chamber: Chad Mizelle. The phrase itself sounds like a Silicon Valley parody algorithm—equal parts frat-house nickname and Japanese electronics brand—yet the man behind it has quietly become a walking stress…
From Kiev to Kyoto, district attorneys are rarely the stuff of diplomatic cables. Yet in the spring of 2024, Fulton County’s Fani Willis has become the unlikely protagonist in a morality play that is being binge-watched from Brussels to Bangkok. While her name still sounds to European ears like a cheerful budget airline, the reverberations…
Law and Order: A Global Magic Show Where the Handcuffs Sparkle and the Audience Applauds the Illusion ————————————————————————– In the grand amphitheater of geopolitics, “law and order” is the headline act that never gets old—mostly because the script keeps changing mid-performance. From the marble corridors of The Hague to the fluorescent-lit holding cells of Lagos,…
Justice Secretary: A Title That Travels Poorly By Our Correspondent Somewhere Slightly Safer Than Where You Are The phrase “Justice Secretary” sounds like a job invented by a wishful-thinking focus group: a bureaucrat who keeps justice in a filing cabinet, dusts it off for photo-ops, and quietly mails it to the wrong address when no…
