Online safety for children is a hot topic among parents who are negotiating a world where their kids will never know a life without the internet. How do we protect children from dangerous or...
With the rise of adult colouring books — colouring books designed for adults, not the other kind of ‘adult’ — has come the rise of animated comedies also targeted at the adult market (think...
The X-Files is back, complete with spooky opening titles and snappy Mulder-Scully action. On Sunday night, the Internet went absolutely wild for it, even with American football and Downton Abbey to...
As moderate Republicans quietly moved to shift themselves away from Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, one of the most respected publications in the...
On Sunday night, the first original PBS drama for broadcast in 10 years, Mercy Street, hit the airwaves, hoping to coast off Downton Abbey as a lead-in. 3.3 million people tuned in for the programme,...
Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. The Black Dahlia. The Green River Killer. The Lindbergh Baby. We are obsessed with true crime and the killers that drive it, from the penny dreadfuls of the late...
This week, President Obama announced a sweeping series of executive actions to address the urgent need for gun reform in the United States, attempting to circumvent Congress since it refuses to act...
New year, new TV! Old standards are returning from their midseason break, but more importantly, there’s a fresh crop of television including midseason pickups and, of course, fall shows — while...
For the last month, we at Global Comment have posted a song a day of the best Christmas songs of all time. Now, here they are gathered together into one post, with an added Spotify list. What's your...
There was only ever one song that would make a suitable finale to our musical advent calendar and it is, of course, Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade. Another titan of glam rock, also from the Midlands...
