The British weather may have rained on Beyonce’s parade but the self-styled Queen Bee reigned supreme.

As a wet drizzle briefly swept through Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the middle of her set, the US superstar only seemed to become even more empowered, smiling brighter, singing sweeter, then mounting a giant gold mechanical bull and executing a sassy, seductive dance routine in a slinky skin-tight costume as if there was nothing she liked better than a cold shower at the rodeo. Well, I guess she knew she had a veritable war zone’s worth of pyrotechnic explosions to warm her up later.

We hear a lot about soft power these days, but in terms of cultural heft and sheer firepower, American superstar Beyonce hit Britain soft and hard.

It was a show of spectacle and seduction, of bone-rattlin

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