One of my favorite, so to speak, people in Washington D.C. is finally facing criminal charges. That’s right, congressman George Santos stands accused of violating campaign finance laws and other...
“Russia does not deserve a millimeter of the victory of its grandfathers in the World War 2”, said Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner private military company frontman, in a video released on Russia's...
Paul James Cardwell, King's College London and Jed Odermatt, City, University of London The Eurovision bandwagon has firmly arrived in Liverpool. During a week of two semi-finals, 37 competing...
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...
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 Jeff Does Vegas. Sum up your podcast in three...
40 years is half a lifetime. For some, 40 years is their lifetime. Others never get to see 40 years. Was it really 40 years ago when Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now...
These days, in different cities of Iran, there are women and girls without hijab - despite arrests and fines (from $10 to $70,000, depending on the judge) - in public places, such as schools and...
Two and a half years after Armenia and Azerbaijan ended the 44-day war they fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan seems to have completely relinquished the mountainous region that was under the...
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...
When actress Helen Mirren, 77, let her hair grow out during pandemic lockdown, she just loved the idea of having long hair again like when she was in her 20s. She dropped the rules, apparently set in...
