The strategy behind the infamous Storey funeral was to show contempt to democracy and wind up unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 July 2020 As if there was any doubt, the shameless behaviour of those organising and leading Bobby Storey’s funeral...
We should challenge false narrative peddled by Sinn Fein over late IRA man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 June 2020 When it comes to the deaths of those associated with Sinn Fein and the IRA, I don’t adhere to the convention that one should postpone...
Jean Kennedy Smith was Irish republicanism’s ambassador to the US, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 June 2020 Regretting the death of Jean Kennedy Smith, US Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 for five years, who died last Wednesday in Manhattan aged 92,...
A new breed of ‘offence archaeologists’ waging war on anyone holding dissenting views, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 June 2020 What sort of decrepit rock did you climb from under you absolutely hideous harridan?” tweeted one of my critics last week. “You’re...
Of course there must be racial equality, but new fad of hating the police is so wrong, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 June 2020 Black Lives Matter coverage reminded me of being in the civil rights march in Washington in August 1963. I’d been in Baltimore...
We must open our minds and have more empathy with those we do not agree with Published: 31 May 2020 I care about free speech and a free Press, without which corruption and injustice flourish, but at times there is a heavy price to be paid. After some weeks of watching...
Palestinians can only be seen as victims and the Israelis as oppressors in its view, writes Ruth Dudley-Edwards Published: 25 May 2020 Two recent happenings made an unexpected connection for me very recently. One was an intensification of the campaign to have the next...
A new book challenges the message of Lord Of The Flies that we are naturally bad, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 May 2020 I have always hated William Golding’s novel Lord Of The Flies, which so many students were force-fed. The name Lord Of The Flies...
It’s a travesty to say the UK is doing worse than any other European country, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 May 2020 At least the claim enthusiastically made by Sinn Fein and taken up by anti-British commentators in both islands, that the death rate...
We may be stuck with lockdown, but we should make the most of its positive side, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 May 2020 I was intending to write a cheerful column about the positive side of my lockdown when I was a bit derailed by an upsetting message from...
