Excitedly greeting the census figures showing that people who were either Catholic or brought up as Catholic made up 45.7% of the population with their Protestant equivalents on 43.5%, Colum Eastwood demonstrated his tin ear with an old-fashioned, sectarian response....
The sun is shining, the weather forecast is encouraging, the target of vaccinating the 15 million most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom by February 15 was met ahead of time, and despite the mean-spirited way in which Brussels is persecuting Northern Ireland, I...
Northern Ireland is rejecting tribalism: now is the time to embrace opportunities, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 December 2019 I’m euphoric about what happened in Thursday’s election. Of course there are a few individual results that I regret, but...
Published: 19 October 2019 Having begun as a slightly reluctant Leaver, I have become very hardline over the last three years in reaction to the undermining by Establishment Remainers of attempts to implement the will of the people of the United Kingdom by getting out...
Published: 9 September 2019 Well, it’s a good thing the 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth is robust. When the media aren’t majoring on her son Andrew’s friendship with a now dead paedophile, they’re featuring endless stories about her daughter-in-law...
Published: 19 July 2019 Like so many others, I’ve spent all too much time recently weighing up the qualities and deficiencies of Boris Johnson and the pros and cons of having him as Prime Minister. That involved reading innumerable articles asking who the real Boris...
Gerry Adams didn’t understand the south, but Mary Lou McDonald is even worse about the North, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 February 2019 I was caught unawares last Tuesday on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan morning show by Mary Lou...
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...
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...
Jeremy Corbyn is trying but failing to wriggle his way out of accusations of anti-semitism, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 3 September 2018 I was having a look at Irish historical figures’ attitudes to Jews, for anti-semitism in these islands is much on my...
