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 not a lot of TV I want to watch at the moment, so I've got into the habit of putting YouTube on in the evening. It's usually just background noise as I get on with my life, but sometimes I...
It's impossible to ignore that we're getting close to Halloween, whether through the TV progarmming, the orange tat in the shops, or the flyers for spooky nights out. Some people like to prepare by...
A friend and I had lunch together today. Choosing from the menu, I said “Shall we go for the extravagant option?” But we weren't being outrageous; quite the opposite. In this context, the...
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,...
