Elon Musk is too funny for Saturday Night Live
Still, I hope he kills it
Damian Reilly
Tuesday
Thursday
Biden’s Rodeo: How were his first 100 days?
From our UK edition
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Joe Biden is approaching his first 100 days in office. How has he fared, and has he delivered on his promise to bring about a return to normalcy? (1:15) Plus, the proposed European Super League wasn’t super after all. The six English teams invited to join the league pulled out earlier this week, and the
Wednesday
How the Super League sabotaged itself
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‘So you’re telling me they’re wetting the bed because we’re suggesting the same teams should compete in a competition in which the same teams always compete?’ It’s not hard to see how the owners of the European Super League clubs, the Americans particularly, might be confused by the splenetic reaction of English football fans to
Monday
Football’s Super League critics are being hypocritical
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Is it possible meaningfully to oppose the decision by Europe’s biggest football clubs to form an unaccountable, anti-democratic Super League if you voted to Remain? The obvious answer is that it’s not. Not that that will stop anyone. The proposed Super League is an almost exact sporting distillation of the issues that defined the European
Thursday
Prince Harry is here to help
The Duke of Sussex has got a job flogging expensive pseudo-therapy to corporate droids the world over
Monday
The plot against Philip Roth
If the author was such a vile misogynist, why did so many women seem to find him so irresistible?
Monday
The problem with Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’
From our UK edition
He might now be one of the most powerful men in global media, but I find whenever I see a photograph of Nick Clegg, Orwell’s quote about everyone getting the face they deserve by 50 comes to mind. Now 54, the remnants of the boyish idealist are still just about there, but the eyes to
Friday
What’s Bill Gates’ beef with flatulent cows?
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‘Fart for freedom, fart for liberty – and fart proudly’, was how Benjamin Franklin put it shortly after founding the United States. It’s an injunction the cows of the developed world appear to have taken seriously: a strategy for liberation, executed brilliantly you have to say, that seems finally to have brought them to the
Tuesday
Will Dogecoin give Elon Musk the last laugh?
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There’s something deeply pleasing for fans of cosmic jokes everywhere about the world’s richest man personally taking the time to sell you a pup. Or a pup-related crypto-currency, at least. In between lobbing rockets at the moon, singlehandedly revolutionising the car industry and raising a ten-month old child, Elon Musk has recently been using Twitter
Wednesday
Harry and Meghan’s podcast of platitudes
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Why is there not a single trans voice featured in Harry and Meghan’s first podcast? It’s a question that needs answering. The half-hour recording – the couple’s first since signing a $25 million deal with Spotify – sets out to explore the psychological impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on, as the Duchess herself puts it,
Wednesday
Our collective nervous breakdown
When did guilt become so comforting?
Wednesday
Memes, marvelous memes
Where would we be without this guy?
Wednesday
In defence of the BBC
From our UK edition
I sometimes wonder if I’m the last person left in Britain who loves the BBC and thinks it represents brilliant value for money. Yes, there is much with which to be infuriated – like most Leavers, for example, I find watching Gary Lineker present Match of the Day about as enjoyable as I imagine Remainers
Tuesday
The nightmare after crypto
‘Cryptocurrencies are scams and anybody who puts any money into one and loses the lot only has themselves to blame’
Tuesday
When did Donald Trump’s tweets become so boring?
It feels like he’s tweeting by numbers
Friday
Why must we see Jeff Bezos’s penis?
We’re unendingly fascinated by leaked intimate images of nude celebrities
Wednesday
Masculinity isn’t toxic – corporate moralizing is
Gillette, we thought you were on our side
Thursday
The Twitter dominance of Piers Morgan
How the British presenter reigns supreme online
Saturday
Editor’s letter | Who’s afraid of bitcoin?
From our UK edition
It wasn’t so long ago that only the most committed bores spoke of money in abstract terms: money as a mere ‘concept’ (the rest of us got on with earning it). Today, that’s not the case. Thanks to bitcoin, everybody seems to have accepted money really is just an idea, one that in its current,
Breaking the bank | Who’s afraid of bitcoin?
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Sam Reed, 29, is co-founder and chief technology officer of the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), the largest crypto trading platform, and the 26th-largest exchange of any type in the world. His story — of how he went from itinerant web developer to co-founder of what some have called the ‘Goldman Sachs of bitcoin’ — is