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Global Comment
- Posted on Thursday April 24, 2025
Spring is here, and with it comes longer days, brighter colors and the inevitable urge to renew our reading. This season, which welcomes rebirth and lightness, becomes the perfect setting for reading books that speak of love, reencounters, second chances or simply with flowers in the title. This month we recommend books that, like spring, […]
The post Global Comment’s Book Club: April 2025 first appeared on Global Comment.
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 23, 2025
One of the reasons why Charlie Brooker’s dystopian Black Mirror series has been a hit for years, in spite of the fickle nature of what’s considered cool and what gets to go viral, is that it plays on our very justified fears about the evolution of technology. Human beings are addicted to tech, but also […]
The post “If this was a feature length film, they’d be throwing Oscars at him”: Eulogy, Black Mirror review first appeared on Global Comment.
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday April 18, 2025
When it comes to legendary love stories, surely Romeo and Juliet reigns supreme – or does it? My husband insists it’s not a love story at all, just a very stylish tragedy. But regardless of how you frame it, it’s astonishing that something written over 400 years ago still commands such a hold on our […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 17, 2025
High on her own success as a criminal defence barrister, Tessa Jane Ensler has the arrogance of someone who excels in her role. Someone who has fought her way to success. Ensler rides the adrenaline high of winning case after case. So what if she defends the odd rapist who was actually guilty? It’s just […]
The post “The exploration of power, gender and privilege in this play is handled with care”: Prima Facie with Jodie Comer review first appeared on Global Comment.
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025
Paula Gortázar, University of Westminster The global sprint to develop artificial intelligence technologies is intensifying, fuelled by substantial investments from both public and private sectors keen to maintain a competitive edge in the AI era. In the UK, the AI industry is predicted to generate £400 billion by 2030. Yet the regulatory frameworks that govern […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday April 15, 2025
A good playlist can help us to work through some real shit. Sometimes, we need to sob to ballads when we’ve been dumped, other times, the perfect 80s pop playlist can pep us up when we need to get moving. We might want to be inspired to change, or we might need to indulge our […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday April 14, 2025
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 April 11, 2025
Netflix’s Daredevil featured Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fighting for justice by day as a lawyer, and by night as a masked vigilante. At the time, the show was widely applauded for the visual prowess of its action sequences, and for balancing themes of justice, revenge, morality and redemption. Eventually, the blind superhero and its three seasons […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 10, 2025
Throughout history, music has echoed the pain, resistance, and unanswered questions that war leaves behind. These songs don’t just entertain — they confront, protest, and remember. From Vietnam to the Middle East, from global fears to personal grief, each track in this list captures a different face of conflict. Whether through raw lyrics, haunting melodies […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 09, 2025
The third season of Mike White’s White Lotus is concluded, and both the nuanced think pieces and complaints have rolled in. White has felt compelled to defend the show in its third season – and rightly so. Yes, it WAS slow. Yes, it felt a bit pointless at times, like a long, drawn out exhale that […]
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