The row over President Michael D. Higgins’s bizarre rejection of the invitation to the ecumenical church event in Armagh has generated oceans of comment in the media, but one of the most acute analyses I’ve seem was in an email. Published: 28 September 2021 Michael...
There’s no point in providing history students with an inoffensive curriculum, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 July 2020 Last month I saw a young woman on a TV news programme being asked if she thought Winston Churchill was a racist whose statue on...
We badly need all the opportunities available in the Commonwealth, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 April 2019 Adrian O’Neill, Irish ambassador to the UK, had a letter in The Spectator last week complaining about a “snide and hostile” article...
Many lodge members already attend funerals and weddings in Roman Catholic churches, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 April 2019 Last week the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland at last got round to lifting the ban on its members entering Roman Catholic churches....
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....
Enemies of police from north and south still spread their lies and hate, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 October 2018 The hatred of police is still alive and well in the psyche of extreme Irish republicans and it still contaminates wider public attitudes....
Taoiseach’s attitude to Brexit is so extreme that he is becoming a British tabloid hate figure, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 29 July 2018 What on earth is going on with Leo Varadkar? Is he trying to appeal to Sinn Fein voters by making a bogus fuss...
Sinn Fein’s mendacious rewriting of history now sees its members recast as civil rights heroes Published: Sunday 20 May 2018 Of course I know that the bloodstained record it defends, and the lies, corruption and destructiveness of the contemporary Irish...
