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I didn’t really know anything about Charlie Kirk until news of his death filtered through yesterday evening. IKEA is a strange place to learn about a shooting, especially one that feels significant. And it does feel significant. Both the UK and America have a sad, contemptible recent history of the murder and attempted murder of […]

This weekend saw the Women’s Super League (WSL), the top tier of women’s football in the UK, recommence. With it, the new media deal kicked in. A reminder – that means 118 games on Sky Sports, with others available for free via the BBC and YouTube.  There is plenty that is good about the wide-ranging

UK TV series, even very popular ones, don’t always do that well when the go to the US. Nigel Farage looked to buck the trend on Wednesday, when he took his show Stateside. Farage was appearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee to talk about the free speech crisis in the UK. Nevermind that

It’s been a big couple of days in US sports media. ESPN has (finally) launched its full-fat streaming product, and Yahoo! Sports Network is live. The first is the only way (for Americans) to get the full ESPN experience without cable. The latter comes with 60 hours of original programming. The services are huge steps forward

It’s the time of year when people are thinking ahead to Q4 2025 and how they can end their year on high. I’m certainly thinking about that for The Addition. With that in mind, I thought I’d share some predictions at the intersection of culture, media and sport for the coming three months.  The usual

The Odd Lots podcast is having a moment. So much of a moment, in fact, that it got a profile in the New York Times. Reading that made me reread a profile of co-host Joe Weisenthal, published by the same outlet. That article, originally released back in May 2012, is something of a time capsule

James Corden and Taylor Tomlinson are gone. Stephen Colbert will be out the door in May next year, after CBS decided not to renew his contract and end the show entirely. The network said it made “purely a financial decision”. This has been a huge media story in the US. Every rival host chimed in,

Over the last few days, the story of the huge Afghan data leak has finally emerged. It involved the details of thousands of those who helped Western forces during the war. Also now public is the enormous cost of the plan to fix the issue. This happened thanks to the intrepid work of The Times’

There is a lot to unpack from today’s BBC Annual Report. Michael Savage at The Guardian notes that a further 300,000 households have stopped paying the licence fee. That is a huge financial hit to Aunty. Meanwhile, the organisation still has a deficit of £132 million. It is also set for tricky negotiations with the