

I don’t have much to say about the Economist’s new cover (for North American editions of the magazine) depicting Barack Obama and Xi Jinping as Ennis and Jack from Brokeback Mountain. Obviously it’s awful, but it’s so awful – with its shoddy photoshopping and clunky, unfunny ‘joke’ movie reviews, not to mention the entire concept itself of depicting two world leaders as characters from a poignant film about forbidden love because ‘LOL GAYS’ – that it’s almost brilliant, reminiscent of Tina Brown’s Newsweek at its most trolling.





