UK’s critics guilty of double standards when it comes to Leavers Published: 21 September 2020 Many nationalists interpret the GFA to mean,” tweeted the commentator Owen Polley last week, “if a policy advances the cause of an all-Ireland state, it’s definitely,...
Woke generation are destroying everything that we value Published: 14 September 2020 I got completely stuck over the last couple of years, as I tried to write my latest crime novel, Death of a Snowflake, which, as you might guess, is about the lunacies of identity...
People blind to European Union’s bid to create a federation Published: 7 September 2020 I’ve now finished reading Ireland and the EU Post Brexit (which I wrote about last week) by Ray Bassett, a former Irish ambassador to Canada, whose public...
New book shows south does not have the ties to Europe that the elite likes to think it has, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 31 August 2020 Although I loved my time at University College Dublin in the 1960s, I emigrated to England as soon as I could in search of...
People seem to forget how crucial the ex- UUP leader was in helping to end the violence, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 August 2020 Did anyone notice, in all the tributes to John Hume, how rarely David Trimble was mentioned? Had you known nothing about the...
Stopping the Provos destroyed the SDLP and threatens the stability of NI and the Republic, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 August 2020 There were bucket-loads of effluent hurled last week at anyone who criticised John Hume for legitimising Sinn Fein. As Eilis...
Last week’s attack on Irish Freedom Party in Belfast highlights the lack of tolerance, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 August 2020 It’s very easy to have people, or parties, labelled far-Right, regardless of their actual beliefs, which is what a...
There’s no point in providing history students with an inoffensive curriculum, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 July 2020 Last month I saw a young woman on a TV news programme being asked if she thought Winston Churchill was a racist whose statue on...
Michelle O’Neill was abused online but it’s tame compared to what I receive, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 July 2020 Three Sinn Fein communications in the last few days intrigued me. What was Francie Molloy, the MP for Mid Ulster, up to when he...
A new book examines the incompatibility, between nationalists and unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 July 2020 Trump is taking on the historical revisionists – that was the Spectator headline on an article by my friend Douglas Murray, who was...