The National Health Service (NHS), established in post-war Britain as a fair way to ensure that good healthcare would not only be available to those who had the means to pay for it, is well-loved, as...
Feminist porn producer/performer Pandora Blake is one of the more high profile victims of the Orwellian Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014, an amendment to the UK’s 2003 Communications Act...
Every 40 seconds one person commits suicide. Only in the past 45 years the world has turned 60 per cent more suicidal than it used to be. Unemployment, low income, age (over 45), low social status,...
Talking about the hijab in the post-Paris-attacks-Europe strikes a lot of chords. Anything iconically related to the coordinated terrorist atrocities of 10 gunmen and the death of 129 people who were...
Five years ago, audiences were introduced to the sprawling country estate of Downton Abbey at the turning point of a century of turmoil: The RMS Titanic had just sunk, taking the heirs of the estate...
2015 has been an interesting and sometimes controversial year in the world of literature in English. (I am not equipped to comment on the rich and varied non-English-language literary scene, so this...
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...
And welcome to the 1980s! Unlike most of the other big Christmas hits, I have never met anyone who doesn't like this song - it seems to be universally accepted as a Christmas classic. In fact, one...
Chris Rea was one of the voices of my childhood. Every summer we used to make the drive from Birmingham up to Sunderland to visit my grandparents and one of the albums that we used to listen to in...
