Nationalist or unionist, if you care about the well-being of the island of Ireland, this is a time to be positive, writes RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS. Published: 29 December 2020 I plead with my nationalist friends to take the advice of Colum Eastwood in his first address as...
I’m very relieved that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis did not cave into the pressure from politicians at home and abroad by setting up a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Published: 1 December 2020 He has not said there will never be such an inquiry,...
Published: 26 november 2020 Four of Northern Ireland’s political parties (Sinn Fein, the equally nationalist but anti-violence SDLP, the Greens and the liberal Alliance) have sent a letter to Secretary of State Brandon Lewis calling for a public inquiry into the 1989...
Published: 27 May 2019 Once I realised that Theresa May was possibly the worst British Prime Minister ever, I kept blessing Margaret Thatcher for having been such a success that she made it okay for a female Prime Minister to fail. During all the wailing about...
Published: 19 May 2019 John Lippitt, who has died aged 90, was an unorthodox, swashbuckling civil servant who dominated British industrial policy in the 1970s and later became a commercial negotiator for GEC in China and South East Asia. When in 1980 he was persuaded...
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into Sinn Fein’s tunnel-vision problem, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 17 February 2019’I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All,” wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a...
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
It didn’t please republican puritans, but Irish people know how to greet strangers warmly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 July 2018 ‘The fawning over #HarryandMeghan has been pretty nauseating,” tweeted The Irish Times journalist Kitty...
Published: 21 February 2018 Senior Labour officials are alleged to have aided the Soviet Union. Left-leaning Oxfam is accused of covering up the sexual exploitation of impoverished Haitians and its chief executive, hauled before MPs, admits that the charity faces 26...
Published: 15 February 2018 It has been another groundhog week in Northern Ireland, with British and Irish politicians pleading for compromise in pursuit of renewed power sharing and the preservation of peace, and leaks to the media from both nationalists and...
