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.
DJ Khaled has been the laughing stock of social media this week, after an old interview resurfaced in which he shares that he refuses to perform oral sex on his wife. He does, however, expect her to...
I am a firm believer in the power of technology to do good for the world. In the earlier days of the web, when you could go on The Hunger Site and click a button to feed somebody who was hungry, I...
Until this week, many people had never heard of “incels”, a term short for “involuntary celibates” that describes a certain kind of man. It’s a man who has never had sex, or who has trouble...
A friend of mine took part in a medical cannabis trial to test whether it could help with the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. She was taking the legitimate cannabis in the trial and found that it...
My school was pretty strict about its uniform policy. Wearing a coat that wasn’t brown could get you sent home and wearing the wrong coloured socks meant you had to wear someone else’s manky old...
Picture the scene: you’re at a hospital because you have an unwanted pregnancy and are seeking out a termination. You have seen all the appropriate professionals and had all the relevant tests. You...
In 2016, Shahmir Sanni volunteered with the Vote Leave campaign, which was aiming to convince British voters to leave the European Union. He was unusual amongst his university peers for being a...
The thing about companies like Facebook and Google is that data gathering is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they make their living – by offering highly targeted advertising options based on the...
Sajid Javid, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has revealed that census data suggests that 770,000 people living in England...
The degree to which the American right espouses an attitude of "I'm alright, Jack" is pretty shocking to outsiders, especially given that the biblical Jesus they profess to follow was all about...
