“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...
Published: 8 August 2018 Boris Johnson’s joke about burka-wearing women looking like ‘letter boxes’ made me wince – not least because I know there are so many women forced to dress that way at the behest of their menfolk and who hate how it makes them look. There are...
Published: 23 May 2018 If it were not for its offensiveness to tens of thousands of victims of IRA violence, Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to Northern Ireland would be comic. In his past incursions into matters Irish, he has appeared to reveal simultaneously ignorance,...
Once decent Labour Party must ditch the anti-Semitism and refind its soul, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 May 2018 Among the uglier manifestations of the new Labour establishment is a hatred of Israel so profound as to be indistinguishable from pathological...
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...
