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.
Yesterday, it was 12 months since the horrific fire at Grenfell Towers in London. 72 people died and many more were injured, and a public inquiry is ongoing to look at what caused the blaze and how...
Two weeks ago, Ireland made the historic decision to repeal its 8th amendment, which had previously outlawed abortion by giving a foetus an equal right to life as the person carrying it. By a...
30 years ago, a group of four lesbians slipped into the BBC studios and started yelling on the flagship Six O’Clock News. One presenter tried to keep going, while the other sat on one of the...
I was a pretty sensitive child, so when I heard that babies were being murdered in their thousands, and that this was absolutely legal, I was horrified. Murdering babies couldn’t possibly be...
Robert Jenkinson, aged 28, had mental health and substance misuse problems. On August 30th last year, he saw his care co-ordinator (the mental health nurse or social worker who managed his mental...
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...
