Polymarket rarely gets culture wrong when real money rides on the outcome. Right now, traders give Bad Bunny a 97 per cent shot at becoming Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2025. Taylor Swift sits at a distant 3 per cent. The contract has already seen more than $1.8 million in volume, and “Yes” shares on Bad […]

In the final fortnight of November 2025 the cryptocurrency market delivered a sharp reminder that euphoria can evaporate faster than it arrives. Bitcoin, which had traded above $109,000 only weeks earlier, fell to $87,200 on 25 November, erasing almost all gains accumulated since the United States election in early November. Total market capitalisation contracted by […]

Pharrell Williams does not do quiet releases. He stages moments. The latest moment is a Timberland six-inch boot rebuilt in gold and monogram canvas, priced at roughly sixty-five thousand pounds. Only fifty pairs exist worldwide. Each arrives inside its own custom Louis Vuitton trunk, the sort usually reserved for jewellery that costs even more. What […]

Some objects carry history in their steel. These ten do. They have shaped battles, guarded frontiers, won wars and, occasionally, started them. Firing them is not about politics. It is about understanding what certain generations carried in their hands when everything was on the line. Ranges that let civilians fire most of these still exist, […]

Confidence has a reputation for being loud. In reality it is often quiet, steady and completely unapologetic. Here are twenty things that belong in that category. These twenty things share a common thread. None harm anyone else. None require permission. They are small declarations of independence in a world that increasingly demands explanation for everything. […]