John Lippitt, combative civil servant who dominated industrial policy in the 1970s and later formed a swashbuckling partnership with Sir Arnold Weinstock at GEC – obituary
Published: 19 May 2019 John Lippitt, who has died aged 90, was an unorthodox, swashbuckling civil servant who dominated British industrial policy in the 1970s and later became a commercial negotiator for GEC in China and South East Asia. When in 1980 he was persuaded...
Who are the New IRA? The name might have changed, but they’re the same men of violence who ignore the wishes of the people
Published: 23 April 2019 “What we are seeing is a new breed of terrorist coming through the ranks, and that is a very worrying situation,” said Detective Superintendent Jason Murphy on Saturday, as two teenagers were being questioned in Belfast under the Terrorism Act...
Ideological fig-leaf that covers a violent, selfish pursuit of power
Published: 20 April 2019 “I didn’t know it was still going on,” is a comment I’ve heard frequently since Thursday night and the death of my friend Lyra McKee. But close followers of the situation in Northern Ireland are all too aware that there are still plenty of...
How can the government put a soldier in the dock while letting IRA killers go free?
Published: 14 March 2019Most law-abiding people in Northern Ireland believe that anyone who committed a crime should be brought to justice – and that the terrible events of Bloody Sunday were inexcusable. What is causing enormous distress is the completely...
The DUP risk self-destruction if the PM’s deal fails, but we can still trust them to put Brexit first
Its leadership will not cave in and accept a bad deal Published: 12 March 2019 Cricket has nothing on politics when it comes to being a funny old game. Who could have thought that Nigel Dodds, MP for Belfast North, could – for at least one bright shining moment...
Naive Leo Varadkar has finally clocked that the EU has used Ireland to punish Britain
Published: 24 January 2019 “If you’d like to push me and speculate on what might happen in a no-deal scenario in Ireland, I think it’s pretty obvious – you will have a hard border”, said Margaritis Schinas, the EU Chief Spokesperson on Tuesday,...
Corbyn sounds very much like his pal Adams
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...
Ireland has shed its historic culture at a speed that amazes
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...
Jeremy Corbyn’s statement on a ‘united Ireland’ is the latest in a long cavalcade of idiocies
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,...Ruth on facebook
