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Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die, and crazy goes to live

Florida has always been a strange place and the butt of jokes but under its current governor it has become so strange that it’s hard to even satirise

Disney steering a straight line between financial woes and Republican attacks

Governor Ron DeSantis is gunning for the centenarian entertainment and theme park giant after it rejected his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. But returned chief executive Bob Iger is shedding ballast and boosting share prices, making it watertight once more

Disney to cut 7,000 jobs despite profits rising to more than $1 billion

Disney had earlier announced upbeat financial results, led by gains at its theme parks

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Disney’s magic kingdom finds itself at the centre of a culture war

The entertainment giant might be going from strength to strength financially, but political turmoil in the once liberal Sunshine State and demands from an activist investor now threaten it from all sides

Clear vision: Amid falling subscriptions and a sharp drop in income, what are Netflix’s next moves?

After years of emphasising growth above profit, Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of this year. Will a crackdown on viewer account sharing reverse the trend, or must the streaming giant turn to more creative, innovative solutions to get its numbers back up?

Matt Cooper: The collapse of Abramovich’s empire lays bare the devalued standards of the British Premier League

Chelsea Football Club, which lived off financial top-ups from its Russian owner for 19 years, should not now be given public funds to pay the eye-watering wages of players

Emer McLysaght: When the stars come to town, all bets are off

Nothing sparks a small Irish town into life quicker than the arrival of a few Hollywood A-listers to shoot their latest movie