by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
A new biography of the Labour leader makes for very worrying read, writes ‘politics anorak’ Ruth Dudley Edwards 18 February 2019 Being prone to insomnia, I keep on my Kindle a stock of really boring, sleep-inducing books. Recently I read two biographies of... 
by RuthDE | Jan 25, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 24 January 2019 “If you’d like to push me and speculate on what might happen in a no-deal scenario in Ireland, I think it’s pretty obvious – you will have a hard border”, said Margaritis Schinas, the EU Chief Spokesperson on Tuesday,... 
by RuthDE | Dec 17, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Leavers and Remainers don’t agree about much, but most would like the PM to go, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 December 2018 Matthew Parris on Saturday in his latest despairing Times column about Theresa May asked: “At what point does tenacity... 
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 30, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Jun 27, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
North and south, self-styled progressives have turned into hectoring, secular bullies, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 June 2018 The noun “progressive” used to mean someone who advocated social reform. These days, in both jurisdictions on the... 
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... 
by RuthDE | Jun 7, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
The British Government has been weak, the Irish gullible and the EU cynical, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 June 2018 I regret all sorts of things about the timid way in which the British Government is negotiating Brexit and the foolishness of the Irish... 
by RuthDE | May 31, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
What next for Ireland now that the Republic has astounded the pundits by producing a landslide in favour of overturning the 1983 constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to the unborn? Published: 27 May 2018 As the journalist Jason O’Mahony tweeted... 
by RuthDE | May 4, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Ignorance and bigotry have combined to push Irish republicanism into hatred of Israel, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 April 2018 The storm about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is clearly irritating Jeremy Corbyn, who can’t see it. The hard-Left — like... 
