The web’s top three #62
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: Jeff Does Vegas
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...
“A beautifully elegiac piece of art”: The Outsiders at 40
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...
The poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls continues
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...
Nagorno-Karabakh: why is Armenia’s position so hopeless?
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...
The web’s top three #61
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...
How will you age? Science and life teach us some lessons
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...
The best TV and streaming premieres: May 2023
The coming weeks bring series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patricia Arquette, India Amarteifio, Case Walker, Chase Sui Wonders, Teresa Palmer, Guy Pearce. Looking ahead to May, a host of new...
The toxic gurus using their power for bad
I wish I could say that Andrew Tate was not my problem. Life is stressful enough for me as it is. But ever since this particular creepy influencer has been hit with human trafficking and rape charges...
Amid the war in Ukraine, Russia’s Wagner Group eyes up Sudan’s gold
While Ukraine prepares to launch a large-scale counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the southeast of the country, the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group is reportedly eyeing up the Sudan conflict....