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Global Comment
- Posted on Thursday January 15, 2026
There’s something wonderfully subversive about waking up one morning to find your neighbourhood postbox wearing a cosy hat, or discovering that the bike rack outside the library has been transformed into a rainbow-wrapped sculpture. This is the world of yarn bombing, which combines traditional craft with guerrilla art in a really magical way. Thanks to […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday January 14, 2026
Mark Lorch, University of Hull; Alina Patelli, Aston University; Ana M Queirós, Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Anna Bedenk-Smith, University of Lincoln; Benjamin Curtis, Nottingham Trent University; Eva Wennås Brante, Malmö University; Jack Fennell, University of Limerick; Jonathan Fisk, University of York; Laura Stephenson, University of Westminster; Makayla Lewis, Kingston University; Michael Strange, Malmö University, and Viren […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday January 13, 2026
A new chapter is unfolding in the world of literary adaptations, with a wide variety of titles planned for 2026. From beloved classics such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to recent works such as Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, along with a wide variety of old and new books, many iconic literary titles will be […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday January 12, 2026
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday January 09, 2026
One of the things I have grown to love about Spotify is the way its playlists are so specific and so niche. Whatever mood I’m in, someone seems to have created a playlist for that precise feeling, and it’s the main way I discover new music. Users get creative not just in the songs they […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday January 08, 2026
Bushman, David Schickele’s long-neglected 1971 film that has been newly restored and re-released for contemporary audiences, plays like a radical act of cinematic excavation, unearthing not just a turbulent moment in American history but also reverberations that feel frighteningly alive in Trump’s 2025 America. At once docu-fiction, time capsule and political provocation, it speaks to […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday January 07, 2026
Welcome to this month’s Late To The Movies, where I try to educate myself on cinematic history one film at a time. This month, I thought I’d take a look at musicals – how they emerged as a genre and the ways in which they influenced the film industry later on. It would be easy […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday January 06, 2026
Tom Ratcliffe, York St John University Thousands of visitors each year explore the landscapes of the UK’s national parks on foot, through walking, rambling, hiking, mountaineering and, more recently, forest bathing. Many of the earliest advocates for a national park system were notable walkers. They ranged from Lake District conservationists such as William and Dorothy […]
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Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942) is a supernatural horror film about a young Serbian woman, Irena (Simone Simon), who believes, based on the lore of the area she grew up in, that she’ll turn into a panther if she experiences sexual arousal. So she does everything she can to avoid this fate and to avoid […]
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