Ruth Dudley Edwards: compliment of the year

photo of Ruth Dudley Edwards, author and journalist

Compliment of the year!

Reading one of my articles on the Conrad Black trial, my friend Eamonn Rafferty sent me this email:

'Can't decide whether you're for or agin’ Conrad; probably the former, but in a less-than-unequivocal way, if so. I think I shall submit the following neologism for consideration to the OED:

undudleyedwards, n, adj, vb int

uncharacteristic equivocation in matters of opinion, discourse and argumentation.

Usage: (adj) "He took a very undudleyedwards approach for the sake of world peace."

n: "She was a bit undudleyedwards - what could be wrong?"

Also, slang:n

undudleypussy: term of abuse within rap and hip-hop musical genres to denote person who dilutes lryics of songs to avoid censorship, as in "Yo, muthafuckin' undudleypussy.”'


	The Birmingham Three:
	Interested people should read the following blogs: Catholic and loving it! The SPUC blogsite Splintered Sunrise Read the Guardian article 'The mystery of the three missing clergymen and the papal visit'. If you're on Facebook, please consider joining the 'Free the Birmingham Three' group.

	...BITE BACK!
	(Ruth's choice of recent articles critical of her views)

	RUTH REVIEWS:
	The Real Global Warming Disaster by Christopher Booker The Life and After-Life of PH Pearse – Pádraic Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht Edited by Roisín Higgins and Regina Uí Chollatáin The Long March: The Political Strategy of Sinn Féin, 1981-2007 by Martyn Frampton The Gathering by Anne Enright God Save Ulster: the religion and politics of Paisleyism by Steve Bruce The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

	PUBLISHED AUTUMN 2008: Poisoned Pen Press US have recently reissued Ten Lords A-Leaping and The Anglo-Irish Murders. All Ruth's fiction is now back in print. Ruth's essay 'Mrs Markievicz' is included in Speaking Ill of the Dead, published 2007— 'A collection of character assasinations that is bound to have the living and the dead up in arms!' SELECTED BROADCASTS: Today with Pat Kenny Radio 1, rte.ie, 3 April 2009 Let's Talk BBC 1, 19 June 2008 The Editors The Archive Hour, BBC R4, 17 November 2007 Culture Clash: discussion on My Boy Jack and Elizabeth: the Golden Age 18 Doughty Street, 13 November 2007 Culture Clash – TV Fakery 18 Doughty Street, 21 August 2007 Ruth on Robert Maxwell Nightwaves BBC R3, 1 May 2007 Northern Ireland: BBC Radio 4 TODAY Today, BBC R4, 27 March 2007 Speaking Ill of the Dead: Countess Markievicz RTE RADIO 1, 6 November 2006 See essay published in Speaking ill of the Dead


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