Philippa Willitts is Editor in Chief of Global Comment. She is a British freelance writer who specialises in writing about disability, women's issues, social media and tech. She also enjoys covering politics and LGBTQI-related topics. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @PhilippaWrites.
There's an odd moment that hits somewhere in your 30s or 40s when you realise you've been listening to the same Beautiful South albums for 20 years. Not because Blue Is The Colour isn't brilliant -...
People don’t generally have a very positive association with slugs. They’re slimy in a way that’s considered gross, and people blame them for eating food they plant. So seeing Slime Mother, a...
Opened in 1836, the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield in the north of England cover 19 acres and include 5,000 species of plants. In many ways, it’s very grand and reflective of the trends in...
Fast fashion and disposable culture have become so normal that we barely notice their foreboding presence any more. It’s so easy to never think about where the mountains of trash end up, or at...
There's something wonderfully subversive about waking up one morning to find your neighbourhood postbox wearing a cosy hat, or discovering that the bike rack outside the library has been transformed...
One of the things I have grown to love about Spotify is the way its playlists are so specific and so niche. Whatever mood I'm in, someone seems to have created a playlist for that precise feeling,...
Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) is a supernatural horror film about a young Serbian woman, Irena (Simone Simon), who believes, based on the lore of the area she grew up in, that she'll turn into...
Natalia Leite's M.F.A. (2017) is a rape-revenge thriller that looks at campus sexual assault, victim blaming, and the drastic actions powerlessness can provoke. The film follows Noelle (Francesca...
The pressure is on. You need to buy Christmas presents for everybody you love and, for some people, you are stuck. It’s an inevitable part of the season. If you know somebody who is fascinated by...
Welcome to the second in our Book Bytes series on Global Comment, where will review books in a short video format. This first instalment has Nasser Ali Khasawneh talking about how much he enjoyed...
