Kevin Toolis

Why this year’s Edinburgh fringe was so obsessed with death

30 August 2023 5:00 pm

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

18 June 2023 3:30 pm

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

7 April 2023 4:00 pm

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

8 March 2023 9:33 pm

The fate of the Stormont Assembly, and a Brexit resolution of a kind, now rests on the uncharismatic shoulders of…