On Friday Twitter explained why it had permanently suspended a Twitter account in the name of Barbara Pym that had been founded and run by the Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris and friends. Published: 11 May 2021 “Using technology and human review in...
I finished last week’s column about the account of Martin McGuinness’s life just published by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) with: Published: 26 January 2021 “Despite all their lies and intimidation, McGuinness’s followers cannot stop true history...
In 2019 I was a guest speaker — the warm-up act for Kevin Myers, a great journalist who had been professionally destroyed by a Twitter mob — at a reunion in the Clogher Valley of ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. Published: 3 November 2020 On the face of it,...
Published: 29 November 2019 Two pieces of good news for beleaguered journalists today. Like anyone fearful about the imminent Corbyn Terror, I listened nervously this morning to Boris Johnson being mauled on LBC by Nick Ferrari and a selection of vexed phoners-in....
It has taken two years for state broadcaster to say sorry to journalist Kevin Myers, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 December 2019 This is the story of how RTE used taxpayers’ money to defame and persecute a brilliant man much disliked by the majority of...
With quiet courage, it defended people’s right to go about their daily business, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 25 February 2019 I was a guest speaker last Saturday week at a reunion in the Clogher Valley for ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. It...
If we fail to stand up against the social media bullies then everyone is vulnerable, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 12 November 2018 Last week’s target for a vengeful left-wing mob was Sir Roger Scruton, assailed because he had been appointed by Secretary...
