There’s no point in providing history students with an inoffensive curriculum, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 July 2020 Last month I saw a young woman on a TV news programme being asked if she thought Winston Churchill was a racist whose statue on...
Michelle O’Neill was abused online but it’s tame compared to what I receive, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 July 2020 Three Sinn Fein communications in the last few days intrigued me. What was Francie Molloy, the MP for Mid Ulster, up to when he...
A new book examines the incompatibility, between nationalists and unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 July 2020 Trump is taking on the historical revisionists – that was the Spectator headline on an article by my friend Douglas Murray, who was...
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...
Published: 19 July 2019 Like so many others, I’ve spent all too much time recently weighing up the qualities and deficiencies of Boris Johnson and the pros and cons of having him as Prime Minister. That involved reading innumerable articles asking who the real Boris...
If our new PM remains resolute, he may yet unravel the torturous Irish border conundrum Published: 25 July 2019 There are, as yet, precious few signs of either the Dublin establishment or Northern Irish nationalists sharing Prime Minister Johnson’s sunny optimism...
Julian Smith has already hit the ground running thanks to a united government and clear instructions, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 29 July 2019Dear Secretary of State,You’ve come from the tough job of chief whip, but this one is worse. In the Commons you...
I’m cautiously optimistic Johnson will be success at No.10… and it will be lots of fun, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 22 July 2019 With some justification, I frequently get accused of being a Pollyanna. Be warned. As I write this, having for weeks...
Bungling Secretary of State should have known Bill would be hijacked, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 July 2019 The only thing you can say for Karen Bradley as Secretary of State is that she’s managed to unite Northern Ireland’s political parties....
Tabled 08 July 2019 2017-19 Session That this House applauds the success of the Defamation Act 2013 in deterring opportunistic and vexatious libel claims in England and Wales; regrets that the Northern Ireland Assembly’s refusal to extend that act to Northern...
