The impossibility of escaping from Assad
‘The mullahs are moody,’ said Aisha, a female university student, explaining her daily nail varnish run in with the aging…
How neurodiversity took over the Edinburgh Fringe
At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the new thing, the hot ticket, is being neurodiverse. Across comedy, stand up, magic and…
Death was everywhere for the Victorians, but it was never commonplace
In a society obsessed with the trappings of grief, funerals were often elaborate occasions, with commemorative medals struck and strict rules applied to the period of mourning
Why this year’s Edinburgh fringe was so obsessed with death
The Edinburgh Festival is finally over, but why was this year’s event so obsessed with dying? Death is the new…
Brits have a troubling approach to death
You never forget your first corpse, do you? Cold, visceral, mute, lying there immune from the world and its cares.…
The Good Friday Agreement and the amnesia over the Troubles
It was an overcast Sunday morning in January 1983 and two IRA gunmen were waiting outside Belfast’s St Brigid’s church.…
A schism in Ulster is inevitable
The fate of the Stormont Assembly, and a Brexit resolution of a kind, now rests on the uncharismatic shoulders of…
