Published: 31 January 2020 This evening at 11pm I’ll be drinking champagne with a few rejoicing friends, but my feelings will be mixed. I expect joy, optimism and excitement to predominate, but there will be flashes of sadness and worry, for I was born and brought up...
Question Time row between Laurence Fox and Rachel Boyle shows how humourless the intolerant can be, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 January 2020 The controversy over the clash on the BBC’s Question Time between the actor Laurence Fox and the academic...
Published: 21 January 2020 My admiration for Matthew Parris has remained intact throughout the period of his severe attack of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. But, just when I was rejoicing that he seemed steadily to be returning to equilibrium, his article in Saturday’s...
IRA perpetrators blame their victims to attempt to silence their own consciences, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 19 January 2020 I want to talk about hate, which suddenly yet again went centre stage in Ireland when the Irish Minister for Justice Charlie...
Outburst of opposition to commemoration for RIC and Dublin Metropolitan Police own-goal, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2020 January 6 was the 40th anniversary of the murder of three UDR men: Robert Smith, an 18-year-old Protestant, and two...
Published: 9 January 2020 The Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, and Baron Kilkeel – otherwise known as Prince Harry – has never had much luck with his love life, and I don’t believe the matchmaker who set him up with Meghan Markle did him any...
Sinn Fein’s IRA masters are out of touch if they think push for a border poll will succeed, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 6 January 2020 Southern nationalism has moved on. Except for Sinn Fein of course, and the maverick Fianna Fail Senator Mark Daly...
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...
Will another republican crackpot be planting a bomb in honour of Soloheadbeg in 3019, asks Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 27 January 2019’Whoever is responsible for this bomb in our Beautiful City tonight,” tweeted Fiachra McGuinness, proud son of Martin,...
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,...
