There is a particular kind of German motorist who finds Switzerland terribly amusing. Our motorways are too slow, our speed limits too restrictive, and our approach to driving evidently designed for people who consider arriving somewhere a rather vulgar ambition.…
Category: Entertainment
Since When Is a Decade a Musical Genre?
I grew up with the eighties and nineties, but apparently failed to notice that my musical taste was supposed to stop there. Radio has decades of extraordinary music at its disposal, from soul and funk to pop and rock. Yet choosing the next record often seems to involve checking its birth certificate before anybody bothers to listen.
Dear Packers, I’m Running Out of Next Years
The Packers have spent the money, traded the picks and extended the people in charge. I had assumed protecting the quarterback might also feature in the plan. As injuries expose the cracks, Titletown’s championship ambitions are testing even my capacity for denial. Naturally, I still believe we’re going to the Super Bowl next season.
The Melody Is Borrowed. The Chatter Is All Yours.
Pop has discovered a shortcut: borrow a tune people already love, then talk over it until nothing is left to enjoy. Bebe Rexha's “New Religion” does it to Faithless's “Insomnia”, one of the greatest club records ever made. Somebody else wrote the melody. The chatter is all hers.
Dress for the Life You Intend to Post
On Zürich’s Bahnhofstrasse, success requires neither money nor achievement, just a suit, a photographer and somebody else’s luxury car. A Saturday shopping trip becomes a front-row seat at Generation Instagram’s auditions for a life considerably more impressive than the afternoon spent manufacturing it.
Phishing Has Discovered Swiss German, and It Is Glorious
Phishing has discovered Swiss German, with predictably glorious results. Armed with AI, scammers are now localising their emails into synthetic dialect, apparently unaware that Swiss German is spoken everywhere but written very selectively. The result is less sophisticated social engineering than a cultural misunderstanding with a malicious link attached.
I gave Formula 1 another Chance. That was my Mistake.
After weeks of frustration, I gave Formula 1 another honest chance with Miami qualifying. It should have been the purest form of the sport: one lap, maximum attack, no excuses. Instead, the cars looked slow, sounded lifeless, and somehow made world-class drivers appear strangely irrelevant. When even qualifying makes a lifelong fan start zapping, Formula 1 has a problem.
Fair Play: Tesla Delivered!
After all the noise, shifting expectations and familiar Tesla theatre, there is now something real on the table: approval. RDW has granted provisional validity for Tesla’s FSD in the Netherlands, and that deserves recognition. My original skepticism was reasonable at the time, but facts matter more than ego. So yes, fair play to Tesla. This time, the hype was followed by paperwork, and that makes all the difference.
Formula 1 is dead. Long live Formula Eco!
What Formula 1 fans had to witness at the 2026 season opener in Australia was not a spectacle. It was not the beginning of an exciting new era. It was not the kind of racing experience that reminds you why…
Three weeks after the Super Bowl — What Bad Bunny really delivered
Three weeks after the Super Bowl, the debate about language has mostly faded — but the feeling hasn’t. What Bad Bunny delivered that night was bigger than Spanish, bigger than America, and bigger than halftime controversy. It was a reminder that joy, belonging, and shared rhythm travel further than translation ever could.
