Here’s a truth the rest of the world is only now catching up to: when a nation with real wealth decides it wants a seat at the future table, it doesn’t queue politely for one. It builds the table, hosts the dinner, and quietly picks the guest list. That’s what I watched unfold in the
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In June, ten thousand people travelled to a conference hall in the Czech capital to celebrate a single, stubborn refusal: the refusal to be distracted. There are more than twenty thousand cryptocurrencies in the world today. BTC Prague, Europe’s largest Bitcoin gathering, declines to discuss 19,999 of them. Bitcoin only. No altcoins, no shiny new
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June 4 – 7, 2026 · Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo · 78 laps · The crown jewel of Formula One I’ll be honest with you, I love watching Monaco. Every year, it’s less a motor race and more an annual referendum on how much wealth you can physically squeeze into two square kilometres. And
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June 29 – July 12, 2026 · All England Club, London · Est. 1877 · The oldest tennis tournament on earth There are a handful of things that, for me, are summer and the hush of Centre Court is one of them. Wimbledon came back to London this summer, as it has every year since
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June 11 – July 19, 2026 · USA, Canada & Mexico · 48 teams, 104 matches. The largest World Cup in history I’ll admit it, I got completely swept up this year. The drama, the heartbreak, that penalty shoot-out that aged all of us by a decade in about ninety seconds. But can I let
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May 12–23, 2026 · Cannes, France · Cinema’s most glamorous gamble Can I confess something? I love a bit of glamour that actually means something. And once a year, a small strip of French coastline delivers exactly that, where a twelve-minute standing ovation counts as restrained, and everyone dresses as though the cameras might change
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May 4, 2026 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Theme: “Costume Art” Every year on the first Monday in May, the most famous people alive climb a flight of stairs in New York while the rest of us judge their outfits with the seriousness usually reserved for elections. This is the Met Gala
April 10–19, 2026 · Empire Polo Club, Indio · 200,000+ attendees · 25th anniversary Coachella turned twenty-five this year, which, in festival terms, is roughly the age at which one stops being a wild night out and becomes a fully-fledged cultural institution with strong opinions about hydration. And yet the desert still delivered. Sabrina Carpenter,
September 9–10, 2026 · London · Where the quants meet the question of trust There’s a particular kind of nervous energy in a room full of people who all suspect their jobs are about to change and are far too professional to say so out loud. That’s the AI in Finance Summit: two days in
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April 2026 · Bangkok, Thailand · The deal-making heart of APAC The last time I moved money the old way, there was a paper slip, a rubber stamp, and a teller who held all the power. That queue doesn’t really exist anymore. So when I stand in a hall like this one, watching money cross
