In today’s little slice of Christmas advent joy, Shaken’ Stevens takes us, and a small child called Samantha, on a journey to Santaland. At first in the video it looks as though Samantha is...
Behind today’s advent calendar door lies surely the happiest and most uplifting of all Christmas songs… that’s right, it’s Boney M’s Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord. Not only is it seemingly...
Today’s Global Comment advent calendar selection is especially notable for its video. Filmed in the West Bank and the Sinai desert, it manages to lay claim to at least some authenticity of...
In the spirit of advent surprise and joy (with extra emphasis on the surprise), today’s Global Comment advent calendar spot goes to a more obscure song selection: A Spaceman Came Travelling by...
Welcome to Global Comment's musical advent calendar! This year we thought we would treat you to an advent calendar with a difference - a classic Christmas song each day. When I was a child advent...
The opening of 2015 saw Paris afflicted by the horrendous terrorist attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish kosher supermarket. The closing of 2015 has sadly seen another...
Yesterday as I sat in Casablanca, a phone call came. There were attacks in Paris: the Stade de France was being attacked. A restaurant had been shot at. As we sat in a quiet restaurant watching the...
SPECTRE opens in a burst of colour and noise on the streets of Mexico City as James Bond fights his way through crowds of Day of the Dead celebrants and into the customary attempted...
With civil war tearing Syria apart, there are two ways Russian President Vladimir Putin can deal with the issue : the old way and the clever way. The old way would be to maintain the status quo,...
Syria's refugee crisis is nothing new. It has been a serious humanitarian crisis for about four years now and it has only been getting worse. Throngs of Syrians fleeing a very destructive and...
