What a week it’s been for those of us who follow the soap opera that is contemporary politics! Published: 13 June 2023 We had the arrest over mysterious SNP finances of Nicola Sturgeon, erstwhile first minister of Scotland — a inept administrator but a...
We’re living through a disaster that should be causing all patriotic Americans to wonder if it isn’t time to revisit their methods of choosing their leaders. Published: 24 August 2021 The world was understandably extremely rude about a system that produced Donald...
I get fed up sometimes reading and writing about Sinn Féin/IRA. Published: 12 January 2021 But while violent republicanism is still a threat to peace and happiness of the people of the island of Ireland, most of the media let such terrorists get away – sometimes...
Trump may be on his way out, which I find hard to regret, but Trumpism, fortunately, is alive and well Published: 10 November 2020 This was the second US election in a row where I didn’t know which candidate I most wanted to lose. With a choice between the incumbent...
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...
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
The timing of the presidential visit is bad for both the Irish government and Sinn Fein, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 10 September 2018 My fellow columnist Fionola Meredith produced here on Friday an admirable and entertaining evisceration of the...
The BBC man must be defended, as a free Press is the very cornerstone of democracy Published: 5 March 2018 Sinn Fein wants Stephen Nolan off the airwaves. I know this because I read in the Irish News a column by Jim Gibney, one of the best-known of Sinn Fein’s...
