The web’s top three #26
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...
Podcast Showcase: Zen Parenting Radio
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Zen Parenting Radio Sum up your podcast in three...
How can we survive when the world is sinking?
When Jeffrey Bush went to his bedroom to sleep on Saturday February 28, 2013, he had no idea that hours later the earth would swallow his room, killing him. Sadly, this is not a scene from an action...
“Most people tend to minimize their own pain”: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
In her first book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, teaches us how to open our minds and hearts to...
With Russia distracted, its ally Armenia could suffer another defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia continues to demonstrate its impotence in the global arena. Recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh have clearly shown that the Kremlin will hardly be able to...
The web’s top three #25
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...
Abortion regulations in Latin America: legality, restrictions and prohibitions
Women's rights have been widely debated in recent weeks around the world, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own 1973 ruling, known as Roe v. Wade. The landmark decision puts the spotlight...
“Few directors can make an audience suffer like Cronenberg can”: Crimes of the Future
There are many indelible images in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future but none so tortuous as Viggo Mortensen’s performance artist, Saul Tenser, contorted on a feeding chair grown from bone...
BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn continues to suck
Not content with sitting on the sidelines during the Fossils Saying Stupid Things About Ukraine parade, former UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has given an interview to a pro-Russian, Beirut-based...
No fail-safe: Hogir Hirori’s “Sabaya”
Like many film journalists, not to mention jury members, who caught Hogir Hirori’s now discredited Sabaya at this year’s Sundance I was riveted, calling it (in the intro to my interview with...