by RuthDE | Sep 3, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Jeremy Corbyn is trying but failing to wriggle his way out of accusations of anti-semitism, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 September 2018 I was having a look at Irish historical figures’ attitudes to Jews, for anti-semitism in these islands is much on my... 
by RuthDE | May 31, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
What next for Ireland now that the Republic has astounded the pundits by producing a landslide in favour of overturning the 1983 constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to the unborn? Published: 27 May 2018 As the journalist Jason O’Mahony tweeted... 
by RuthDE | May 31, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 23 May 2018 If it were not for its offensiveness to tens of thousands of victims of IRA violence, Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to Northern Ireland would be comic. In his past incursions into matters Irish, he has appeared to reveal simultaneously ignorance,... 
by RuthDE | May 4, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Have my Irish compatriots forgotten how the EU once treated Greece? Published: 30 April 2018 Another week, another bromance, this time between Michel Barnier, the EU’s Brexit negotiator, and the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar. The cynical Brussels game of suckering... 
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 15 February 2018 It has been another groundhog week in Northern Ireland, with British and Irish politicians pleading for compromise in pursuit of renewed power sharing and the preservation of peace, and leaks to the media from both nationalists and... 
by RuthDE | Feb 22, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 24 January 2018 Spare a thought for Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of the Scottish Government and – faithfully supported by her husband, chief executive Peter Murrell – up to now the unchallenged leader of the Scottish National Party. Confronted by...
