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.
Earlier this week, we couldn’t have predicted that Pepsi’s PR screw-up would be several down the list of worst PR disasters this week. It was a bit like the day of the Brexit referendum...
If there’s one thing Jesus was renowned for, it was his lengthy teachings on Pagan-based fertility symbols. The guy barely shut up about eggs, for instance. And perhaps one of the...
Seeing the Daily Mail taking great pleasure in being smug and self-satisfied is never a good sign, and this week’s calamitous events have given it even more to gloat about than usual. When they...
On Wednesday afternoon, British-born Khalid Masood drove his car across Westminster Bridge in London, mowing down a group of pedestrians, before crashing into the gate at the side of the...
This week, the European Court of Justice ruled that it was legal for companies to ban employees from wearing the hijab, as long as such a ban is part of a wider ruling prohibiting any...
Having had a Catholic education, my experience of sex education was mixed. Sometimes it was sensible, sometimes it was scientific, and sometimes the repulsion they tried to teach us about things like...
A transgender teen boy has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons after he won the Class 6A girls’ wrestling state championship in Texas (where else?). Forced to compete with high school...
The metrics behind a tipping point have always fascinated me. At what point does an online video qualify as having ‘gone viral’? At what point in the cooking process does the fruit go from...
It is a bold claim, but new research carried out by the Oasis Foundation explains how the church is the predominant cause of mental health problems in the LGB community. To acknowledge that they are...
Living in the south of France in the late 1990s, I was surrounded by the burgeoning popularity of le Front national, a far-right political party founded and led by Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen was an...
