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.
About one in seven people around the world have some kind of mental health problem, according to the World Health Organisation, and this means that many are looking for help and advice. But people...
Why is somebody only considered to have truly read a book if they’ve read it with their eyes, on paper? This is an argument that you’d think would have run its course by now, but apparently it...
New York, Milan, Paris... all exceptional destinations in their own unique ways. I spent a lot of time in Paris as a tour guide in my teens and adored it, and I love a trip to a tourist fave as much...
If you associate art galleries with stuffy, silent rooms of drab oil paintings of long-dead men, or of pretentious luvvies who judge your every micro-expression, or of spending a fortune to see weird...
The world has become a very fast place to live. I think I was roughly plodding along pretty well with the internet as it was, but the speed of AI has frightened me. Not the speed of its widespread...
I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an...
I love a trip to a gallery, but I know that the idea of going to a formal exhibition is off-putting to many people. Indeed, I avoided them for many years due to childhood associations with long,...
Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm? This is what the documentary film, The Last Tourist, directed by Tyson Sadler, sets out to ask. But...
Comedy is a wonderful way through dark times, and sometimes the only way to remove the doom from doomscrolling is to make sure you're following people who are funny. Sure, we need to know what's...
Twice recently, I’ve been lucky enough to be sitting on the grass in the park, watching local brass bands play. There’s definitely something special about the restored-but-usually-locked...
