“Well when the votes were counted one parochial, backward looking, regressive who is 50 something and from Lagan Valley beat another one,” tweeted Alliance councillor Michael Long after the DUP leadership election. Published: 25 March 2021 “What is clear is that...
Every time I hear the sanctimonious voice of Peter Hain — that one-time rebel and enthusiast for Irish unity who in 2015 swapped his Commons seat for a peerage — I struggle to understand why the media think him an expert on legacy issues. Published: 18 May 2021 There...
A new DUP leader and the anger of Unionists have opened Dublin’s eyes to its border miscalculation Publishded: 17 May 2021 My message to our friends in Europe,” wrote Brexit minister Lord Frost on Sunday, “is: stop the point-scoring and work with us. Seize the moment,...
On Friday Twitter explained why it had permanently suspended a Twitter account in the name of Barbara Pym that had been founded and run by the Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris and friends. Published: 11 May 2021 “Using technology and human review in...
I’m writing this on May 3, Northern Ireland’s hundredth birthday. Published: 3 May 2021 My hope is that the next hundred years will be free of the violence and misery that was so often up to now imposed on peaceful people all over Ireland by intolerant, murderous...
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...
