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 recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
My editor trashed my inquiry into child sexual abuse. Now I know why (Dean Nelson / The Observer)
One morning, a fortnight ago, I checked the BBC headlines to find my old editor, Peter Wilby, peering out. He’d been exposed as a paedophile and convicted of possessing child sexual abuse images. I still feel sick at the discovery.
It would be disturbing enough to discover anyone you knew had done something so terrible – he was convicted of possessing images of children being raped since the 1990s. But Wilby wasn’t anyone. He was a pillar of the media establishment, an editor of the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman, and a Guardian columnist.
He’s Been Single for Years. Now He’s Marrying His House. (Peter Holley / Texas Monthly)
Mendías is organizing a large-scale event to wed his 120-year-old, 680-square-foot adobe house—his relationship to which he considers the most committed and meaningful one that he has in his life. Unions with inanimate objects, of course, aren’t legally recognized, but Mendías’s marriage is much more than a one-night show. He plans on legally changing his last name to a shared hyphenate: Miguel Mendías–West Galveston Street. (He’s still deciding whether to include numerals and abbreviations: “It’s such a long name.”) Mendías has no intention of dating another human being and says his commitment to his home is “lifelong,” a sentiment he intends to capture in the vows he’ll read before guests on his wedding night.
Surgeons pull an 8cm worm from woman’s brain in Canberra (ABC News)
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