When you've lived abroad for a long time, there are lots of things you miss about home. Mostly your family, I find, although food seems to have a special power to make me feel a wistful nostalgia for...
I moved to Seville back in 2020 after falling in love with it (and my husband) on an earlier trip. It's a beautiful city with loads of great things to do and see and with some of the best food you...
This month over at Five Books For, we're discussing gothic-ish classics, given that it's October. I know lots of us go in for reading or watching something spooky around this time of year in honour...
This month over at Five Books For we've been looking at clever thrillers - the kind of thriller that not only keeps you compulsively turning the pages but has characters you care for, brilliant...
This month over at Five Books For we've been looking at summery books - the kind of book where you can feel the heat rising off the pages. Perfect for reading by the pool of you're on holiday, or...
Hi, and welcome to Great Adaptations, a new monthly column here at Global Comment. I'm Kate, and I write a book recommendations newsletter called Five Books For (FBF) over on Substack, where we...
Country music is a much-maligned genre which doesn’t get the credit it deserves for being utterly brilliant. For those of you who, like me, grew up thinking country music was all John Denver and...
For the last month, we at Global Comment have posted a song a day of the best Christmas songs of all time. Now, here they are gathered together into one post, with an added Spotify list. What's your...
There was only ever one song that would make a suitable finale to our musical advent calendar and it is, of course, Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade. Another titan of glam rock, also from the Midlands...
Today's calendar entry is - confession time - my personal all-time favourite Christmas song. I love all of the songs we've featured in the calendar but the reason I really love this one is its...
