by RuthDE | Mar 18, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
When it comes to the heritage of Ireland, republicans don’t have a monopoly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 March 2019 On Saturday, after spending the day in Cookstown with the good folks of the Traditional Ulster Voice party discussing, among other... 
by RuthDE | Mar 11, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Gerry Adams will not appreciate Hollywood’s plan to tell the story of tragic widow, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 March 2019 One of my abiding hopes, and I am an optimist, is that Nemesis will yet catch up with Gerry Adams, that poster boy for Teflon.... 
by RuthDE | Mar 7, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Probe into cash-for-ash highlights how insidious DUP-Sinn Fein carve-up became, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 March 2019 The last couple of weeks brought us another couple of episodes in the soap opera that is the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), aka... 
by RuthDE | Feb 25, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
With quiet courage, it defended people’s right to go about their daily business, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 February 2019 I was a guest speaker last Saturday week at a reunion in the Clogher Valley for ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. It... 
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A new biography of the Labour leader makes for very worrying read, writes ‘politics anorak’ Ruth Dudley Edwards 18 February 2019 Being prone to insomnia, I keep on my Kindle a stock of really boring, sleep-inducing books. Recently I read two biographies of... 
by RuthDE | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The Government has capitulated to a distorted view of the Good Friday Agreement, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 February 2019 With Lord (David) Trimble as the leading claimant, along with, so far, Lord (Paul) Bew, UUP councillor Jeff Dudgeon and me (under... 
by RuthDE | Feb 4, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Being consistent and unbending on backstop can wrestle concessions from EU, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 February 2019 I was lamenting on Saturday, as I so often do these days, the complete uselessness of the current British Government in its negotiations... 
by RuthDE | Jan 28, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Sinn Fein is bent on expanding Republic’s disastrous attempts to revive the tongue, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 January 2019 I’m fed up with the all-Ireland double standards that surround a language for which I have respect and affection and... 
by RuthDE | Jan 21, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Tory grandee may be best Prime Minister we never had, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards, but he knows very little of this place Published: 21 January 2019 A revered and popular MP last week, apropos the Prime Minister, said: “She’s still going back to the DUP... 
by RuthDE | Jan 14, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
With no Assembly, City Hall largest democratic forum here, and it’s not easy to watch, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 January 2019 Last week I watched about an hour of the Belfast City Council webcast, which at various times made me laugh, fume, plunged...
