I wasn’t supposed to be thinking about New York politics. Or any politics, really. Between juggling my marketing deadlines, organising basketball fixtures, and pretending to have opinions about Zimbabwe’s de-dollarisation debate, I had promised myself a mental break. But then Zohran Mamdani went and became the mayor of New York City, and like any left-leaning romantic with too much Wi-Fi and not enough hope, I got pulled right back in.

This is the same Zohran Mamdani I wrote about a few weeks ago, back when he was just a long-shot candidate with a socialist.