I’ve no interest in football, but I’ve become a great admirer of this fine man, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 February 2020 I’ve never had any interest in football, but I can still remember as a schoolgirl in Dublin in 1958 being appalled...
We should honour those people who were forced to choose and took the courageous path Published: 16 February 2020 Here’s a story for anyone who has ever wondered how they would behave in wartime. Would they be cowards? Would they be heroes? Roy Kells, who was...
Published: 13 February 2020 Last month, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Julian Smith was the Spectator’s Minister of the Year. This month, to the bewilderment of politicians on both sides of the Irish border, he was fired by the Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the...
The general election results in Republic make me ashamed of my country, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 February 2020 Today I am ashamed of my country, a vast number of whose voters have intentionally or unwittingly just endorsed a fascist party. This reminds...
Published: 5 February 2020 It was a matter of pride in the United Kingdom that so many voters refused even to contemplate a Corbyn government because of the Labour leadership’s toleration of anti-Semitism and its sympathy with terrorists. However, it’s looking as if a...
Sinn Fein is zooming up in the Irish polls, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards. Let’s hope voters reject them Published: 2 February 2020 Since Thursday night I’ve been celebrating in private with various Brexiteer friends who, like me, are rejoicing that the...
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...
Gerry Adams didn’t understand the south, but Mary Lou McDonald is even worse about the North, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 February 2019 I was caught unawares last Tuesday on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan morning show by Mary Lou...
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...
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into Sinn Fein’s tunnel-vision problem, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 17 February 2019’I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All,” wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a...
