I’m unrepentant about saying last week that the Windsor Framework is as good as unionists can get. Published: 14 March 2023 As I tweeted after Jim Allister took issue with me, I have great admiration for his intellect and his integrity, but that doesn’t mean we have...
My first instinct on hearing of the Windsor Framework, the deal Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reached with the EU, was tremendous relief. Published: 7 March 2023 Until then I could see no way out of the terrible mess we were in. Unionists had few friends and were...
I was delighted by the award of CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) to an old friend. Published: 3 January 2023 This is a very senior award, just one below a knighthood, which is given for those who have played “a conspicuous leading role in regional...
It’s a travesty to say the UK is doing worse than any other European country, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 May 2020 At least the claim enthusiastically made by Sinn Fein and taken up by anti-British commentators in both islands, that the death rate...
Published: 21 January 2020 My admiration for Matthew Parris has remained intact throughout the period of his severe attack of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. But, just when I was rejoicing that he seemed steadily to be returning to equilibrium, his article in Saturday’s...
The Government has capitulated to a distorted view of the Good Friday Agreement, argues Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 February 2019 With Lord (David) Trimble as the leading claimant, along with, so far, Lord (Paul) Bew, UUP councillor Jeff Dudgeon and me (under...
Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 14 May 2018 The DUP’s Sammy Wilson got cross last week about Leo Varadkar’s revelation that the Irish government had proposed “a joint...
