The web’s top three #72
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Category: Themes
Self-belief is fueled by national ambition
Ambitious development plans such as Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 have been the subject of regular media attention. Much of that attention centers on the massive financial resources earmarked to...
“A piercing and intense work”: Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura's fourth novel, Intimacies, is told from the astute and digressive perspective of a court interpreter. The woman in question confronts major changes in her life; her father has died...
“The outfit is never what matters”: why groping doesn’t make you a real man
When I read about this sentencing scandal in Italy, I asked myself how many times I’ve been groped in my life. I turn 40 next year and the truth is, at this point, I don’t even remember —...
A wildfire on La Palma revives the island’s volcano shock
Every summer, wildfires are reported in the news around the world. Spain knows this phenomenon well and this time the worst affected area so far is La Palma, an island of the Canary archipelago in...
The web’s top three #71
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
The risks of AI, and what we can do about it, according to scientists (and a humanoid robot)
How many movies have you watched where a high-tech future doesn't look very promising for humans? Despite all the benefits that artificial intelligence and technology can bring, fiction keeps...
The Huw Edwards scandal has been unedifying all round
Considering nobody is entirely sure what precisely has happened, the BBC presenter scandal has left nobody covered in glory. Starting with The Sun, a Murdoch paper that has never hidden its disdain...
“An adrenaline-fueled journey”: Bloodhounds
Something is going on in the South Korean entertainment industry; powerful and high quality K-dramas keep coming from the Asian country. Such is the case with Bloodhounds, a Netflix original...
Has Putin become Erdogan’s puppet?
Turkey can openly humiliate Russia, and there is nothing Moscow is willing to do about it. The Kremlin continues to demonstrate its weakness vis-à-vis Ankara, while the West is reportedly increasing...