by RuthDE | Mar 12, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Its leadership will not cave in and accept a bad deal Published: 12 March 2019 Cricket has nothing on politics when it comes to being a funny old game. Who could have thought that Nigel Dodds, MP for Belfast North, could – for at least one bright shining moment... 
by RuthDE | Feb 4, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Being consistent and unbending on backstop can wrestle concessions from EU, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 February 2019 I was lamenting on Saturday, as I so often do these days, the complete uselessness of the current British Government in its negotiations... 
by RuthDE | Jan 21, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Tory grandee may be best Prime Minister we never had, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards, but he knows very little of this place Published: 21 January 2019 A revered and popular MP last week, apropos the Prime Minister, said: “She’s still going back to the DUP... 
by RuthDE | Oct 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
In the latest essay in our series, RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS writes that the NIO has come up with is a Sinn Fein wish list on legacy, but it is not too late to fight back Published: 2 October 2018 In four decades of following events in Northern Ireland closely, I’ve seen... 
by RuthDE | Sep 17, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
If Sinn Fein wins on the legacy proposals our government endorses, the law will become an accessory after the fact, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 September 2018 I’m rejoicing that the brave and dogged Mairia Cahill has been vindicated, that the PSNI... 
by RuthDE | Sep 3, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
I have sympathy for a man buffeted by forces inside and outside the Vatican, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 August 2018 It’s a dreadful job being Pope these days, as the world learns more of the terrible secrets the Vatican and Roman Catholic clergy... 
by RuthDE | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Foster and Robinson have made important speeches recently which we need to discuss, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 12 August 2018 I’ve been reading and hearing a lot recently about unionist attitudes to the possibility of losing a border poll on a united... 
by RuthDE | Jul 26, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The timing of the MP’s suspension is difficult for the Tories, the DUP and SF, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 July 2018 I can’t pretend to be astounded by the news about DUP MP Ian Paisley in relation to eye-wateringly luxurious and undeclared... 
by RuthDE | Jul 16, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Policy should put the welfare of victims before the appeasement of perpetrators, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards <img data-attachment-id=”686″... 
by RuthDE | Jun 19, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
Deep divisions remain between North and South – and within the North itself Published: 17 June 2018 As I was ruminating on the implications of Leo Varadkar allegedly telling Fine Gael TDs that “the plates are shifting in Irish politics”, I... 
