by RuthDE | May 28, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | May 23, 2019 | 2019, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Oct 9, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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.... 
by RuthDE | Jul 16, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
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... 
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Daily Mail, Journalism
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... 
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
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... 
