by RuthDE | Aug 7, 2025 | 2025, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I was chatting with my old friend David Starkey at a party recently when several people came up to tell him they loved his YouTube performances. A couple had also said nice things to me about my writing. Published: 7 August 2025 ”We’ve turned into ancient...
by RuthDE | Apr 17, 2025 | 2025, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
“Every generation”, said ex-taoiseach Leo Varadkar last week to an enthusiastic Irish-American audience in Philadelphia hosted by Northern Ireland-based Ireland’s Future, “has its great cause.” Published: 17 April 2025 There hasn’t been much in the press...
by RuthDE | Aug 20, 2024 | 2024, August, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
Almost everything I’m reading or hearing about the state of the world at the moment is scary, horrifying or plain depressing. Published: 15 August 2024 Alarmists predict Iran nuking Israel, Russia nuking Ukraine, World War III, and/or the mass relocation of millions...
by RuthDE | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
Even in these terrible times, there are moments of joy from the Middle East. While Israel struggles for survival, and we mourn direct and indirect victims of the Hamas death cult, Douglas Murray’s online devastating put-downs of ignorance, hypocrisy, groupthink and...
by RuthDE | Jul 13, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, July
A new book examines the incompatibility, between nationalists and unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 July 2020 Trump is taking on the historical revisionists – that was the Spectator headline on an article by my friend Douglas Murray, who was...
by RuthDE | Jan 27, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, January, Journalism
Question Time row between Laurence Fox and Rachel Boyle shows how humourless the intolerant can be, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 January 2020 The controversy over the clash on the BBC’s Question Time between the actor Laurence Fox and the academic...
by RuthDE | Oct 7, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, October
‘Heresy-hunting’ now at a level where contrary views can see you being ostracised, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 September 2019 I’ve just read The Madness Of Crowds, a wonderful book by my intrepid friend Douglas Murray about what is behind the hysterical...
by RuthDE | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, July
It takes bravery to put your head above the parapet and challenge convention, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 July 2019 I went last week to the award of the Contrarian Prize in London. The dictionary definition of a contrarian is “a person who opposes or...
by RuthDE | Oct 22, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
We should be helping young victims of overprotective parents embrace debate, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 October 2018 I’m struggling with my latest satirical crime novel, Death of a Snowflake, which is set on a campus dominated by virtue-signalling,...
