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.
Do Indigenous women’s lives matter in America? The horrific treatment of a Native American woman who was raped while in a persistent vegetative* state suggests not, especially when they are also...
If a government minister declares a major incident, you imagine something life-changing and devastating has happened. A bomb has gone off or a train has derailed, a coach has crashed or people have...
Imagine you’re in a restaurant and a hush descends across all the guests. You look around and see, in the far corner, a man who has gone down on one knee, open ring box in hand, proposing to the...
It’s the time of year when a lot of people turn their thoughts to charity. Perhaps it’s the freezing weather that makes us grateful for a warm home and hyper aware of those who have nowhere to...
If there’s one thing I’ll never forgive Jacob Rees-Mogg for, it’s for making me very somewhat glad that Theresa May retained her seat as Prime Minister. This week, as a bunch of men achieved...
New research for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, carried out by YouGov, has shown devastating attitudes towards sexual consent and rape in the UK. Their report begins: “There is a crisis...
A few years ago, the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire became synonymous with a child sexual exploitation scandal where girls had been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of older men. It...
This time last week, BBC TV was full of celebrities, news readers, pop stars and actors performing feats and making general fools of themselves to raise money for Children in Need, a charity telethon...
We are told that things are different now. We are told that times have changed. That maybe back in the 1960s, the criminal justice system was unfair on victims of sexual violence but that, around the...
When Dominic Raab took up his position as Brexit Secretary, following David Davis’s sulky resignation, I thought he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than his predecessor who seemed to have...
