The RUC are consistently betrayed, but they have much to be proud of, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 November 2019 Last week I caught up on BBC iPlayer with Cops On The Frontline, directed by Dubliner Gerry Gregg, one of a handful of citizens of the Republic...
Labour and the call for a general election from The Times Sir, In the midst of all the knee-jerk excoriation and mockery of the DUP, I was glad to see John Brehcist (letter, Oct 24) reminding us of the horrors they and the unionist community lived through...
New Act of Union needed that guarantees rights and autonomy of each UK region, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2019 I’m back from Indianapolis, where I was (excuse the boast) ‘international guest of honor’ at Magna Cum Murder, a...
Tribal politics at very heart of scandal over botched green energy scheme, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 October 2019 In the last few days travelling in the American Midwest, my constant companion was Sam McBride’s riveting Burned: The Inside Story Of...
The late Brian Kennaway, Michael Phelan and Ian Wilson did so much for reconciliation, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 October 2019 I feel keenly the loss of three fine Orangemen. Michael Phelan and Brian Kennaway, who both became close friends, and Ian Wilson,...
Published: 19 October 2019 “Sod the United Kingdom. Great Britain is fine. Leave Northern Ireland to Ireland.” This tweet was forwarded to me by a London-based, Conservative and staunchly Northern Irish Unionist friend as I began writing this. It came, he said from...
Published: 19 October 2019 Having begun as a slightly reluctant Leaver, I have become very hardline over the last three years in reaction to the undermining by Establishment Remainers of attempts to implement the will of the people of the United Kingdom by getting out...
Published: 18 October 2019 Before the 2016 referendum I, like so many others, dithered about how to vote, not least because I was concerned about how Brexit could affect the Republic of Ireland, of which I am a citizen. I was born and brought up in Dublin, but I’ve...
Published: 17 October 2019 Twitter is a useful safety valve. I’ve been enjoying some reactions to a bizarre performance last night on Channel 4 News by a beefy chap in a balaclava – whose identity was protected by a weird voice-over, more Scottish than Irish. He...
Loyalist activist drew strong, often hostile, opinions, but his family suffered greatly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 October 2019 Last week mainstream and social media were alive with controversy about loyalists, following the latest fascinating Spotlight...
