We must open our minds and have more empathy with those we do not agree with Published: 31 May 2020 I care about free speech and a free Press, without which corruption and injustice flourish, but at times there is a heavy price to be paid. After some weeks of watching...
Palestinians can only be seen as victims and the Israelis as oppressors in its view, writes Ruth Dudley-Edwards Published: 25 May 2020 Two recent happenings made an unexpected connection for me very recently. One was an intensification of the campaign to have the next...
A new book challenges the message of Lord Of The Flies that we are naturally bad, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 May 2020 I have always hated William Golding’s novel Lord Of The Flies, which so many students were force-fed. The name Lord Of The Flies...
Published: May 15 2020 When he was in his cradle, the Good Fairy promised Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson that he would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Bad Fairy chuckled malevolently and said “Wait till he sees what I’ve got in store for him.”...
Artillery Row Published: 14 May 2020 My, my, what a happy day for supporters of the IRA everywhere. The Supreme Court has found for Gerry Adams in his claim that in the early 1970s he had been illegally interned in Northern Ireland, and it has quashed his two...
It’s a travesty to say the UK is doing worse than any other European country, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 May 2020 At least the claim enthusiastically made by Sinn Fein and taken up by anti-British commentators in both islands, that the death rate...
We may be stuck with lockdown, but we should make the most of its positive side, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 May 2020 I was intending to write a cheerful column about the positive side of my lockdown when I was a bit derailed by an upsetting message from...
Published: 27 May 2019 Once I realised that Theresa May was possibly the worst British Prime Minister ever, I kept blessing Margaret Thatcher for having been such a success that she made it okay for a female Prime Minister to fail. During all the wailing about...
The Left flaunts its utter hypocrisy with its views of President Trump and President Xi, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 May 2019 When I was growing up in Roman Catholic Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s, the people my circle and I used to find most infuriating...
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...
