by RuthDE | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
It would be hard to find any good person who dislikes the Strangford DUP MP Jim Shannon. Published: 16 January 2025 In parliamentary circles, he’s seen as a thoroughly decent, genuine guy who treats everyone with courtesy and is a strikingly industrious contributor to...
by RuthDE | Feb 10, 2024 | 2024, Daily Telegraph, February, Journalism
Its image is changing fast thanks to its cheap shots against countries like Israel, Britain and Taiwan Published: 9 February 2024 Ireland, which loves to be loved, is seeing its reputation transformed into one defined by a sullen, mean-spirited pettiness. Every week...
by RuthDE | Jun 27, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
I try to be fair, even to such irritating people as Michael D Higgins, Ireland’s president since 2011. Published: 27 June 2023 But his self-importance, silliness, vanity and sanctimony grate on me, as well as his arrogance and self-aggrandisement in trampling on the...
by RuthDE | Dec 8, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, and Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, were in the United States last week. Published: 7 December 2021 Separately, they met many of the same people and addressed several of the same New York and Washington audiences, but they...
by RuthDE | Sep 1, 2021 | 2021, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
Here’s some good news. Published: 31 August 2021 There are new recruits to the sane army in the culture wars, those who fight back against the bullies, the ideologues, the hysterics and the cowards who are destroying the intellectual freedom for which so many of our...
by RuthDE | Jun 22, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
We all need a change, so today – rather than trying to analyse the latest Stormont dramas and the interventions from London, Dublin and Brussels that are making everything worse – I’m writing about the war against free speech. Published: 22 June 2021 I was at a debate...
by RuthDE | May 11, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, May
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...
by RuthDE | Apr 13, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Why does the party slavishly urge obedience to the World Health Organisation, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 April 2020 Among all the questions to ask Michelle O’Neill about Sinn Fein’s health policy concerns is her new-found enthusiasm for the...
by RuthDE | Apr 6, 2020 | 2020, April, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
We should be brave when, soon, we have to make terrible choices for our society, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 5 April 2020 Fed up with being asked what I think about our present predicament over coronavirus, I have taken to reciting those wise words of Manuel...
by RuthDE | Dec 31, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
To get 2019 off to a good start we need to expel some of the worst sinners of 2018, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 30 December 2018 It’s time for my annual cathartic purge of people who should be removed from the country. And what better place to start...
