Gerry Kelly’s solicitors have served me with a libel writ. Published: 21 June 2022 For legal reasons, I can’t yet say publicly what he’s upset about except that I think it’s ridiculous and I’m standing by what I wrote because I believe it is true. I did the same when,...
Being President Higgins means never having to say you are sorry. Published: 21 June 2022 Nothing seems to shake this life-long Marxist’s remarkable and unjustified self-belief. He’s just dropped two enormous clangers — but he won’t admit it. He has plenty of form, of...
“What Kate Hoey says is not terribly important,” sneered Susan McKay in the Irish Times, after the furore over Hoey’s forthright foreword to the Unionist Voice Policy Studies report, Vetoing the Protocol: Restoring Cross-Community Consent Protections. Published: 18...
“You may strip yourself naked, cover yourself in butter and worship a daffodil,” said an (sadly unnamed) Belfast Unionist 50 years ago, who was quoted on Irish radio programme on Sunday. Published: 30 November 2021 “All I ask is that you don’t make me do it.” He...
We all need a change, so today – rather than trying to analyse the latest Stormont dramas and the interventions from London, Dublin and Brussels that are making everything worse – I’m writing about the war against free speech. Published: 22 June 2021 I was at a debate...
Well, the tweet from editor Alistair Bushe last Wednesday saying I was joining the News Letter certainly got the Shinnerbots excited. Published: 29 September 2020 For those of you who ignore social media, these are the armies of Sinn Fein supporters who assemble on...
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,...
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...
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...
