I watched the whole of Tom Bradby’s interview with Prince Harry on ITV on Sunday night. Published: 10 January 2023 I had also spent a lot of time at the weekend and yesterday morning reading snippets from his ghosted autobiography, Spare, accidentally on sale under...
I’m a bit of a politics nerd, but being an historian by trade, I’ve always been interested in the long view. Published: 14 June 2022 Often I find myself comparing contemporary politicians with those of the past, which is why I find myself so impatient with media...
Published: 19 April 2021 Prince Philip’s death presented Sinn Fein with a particular challenge, given that the IRA murdered his beloved uncle. ‘I am sorry that happened. Of course, that is heartbreaking,’ said the party’s leader Mary Lou...
When TV presenter Piers Morgan lost his job because he wouldn’t apologise for saying he didn’t believe a word Meghan said in the interview with Oprah Winfrey, there were tens of thousands of complaints about him. Published: 23 March 2021 But hundreds of thousands of...
Published: 9 March 2021 The 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth went about her normal duties despite her 99-year-old husband’s serious illness and honoured “selfless dedication to duty” at the annual Commonwealth Day service; In a Californian mansion her grandson Harry and...
Question Time row between Laurence Fox and Rachel Boyle shows how humourless the intolerant can be, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 January 2020 The controversy over the clash on the BBC’s Question Time between the actor Laurence Fox and the academic...
Published: 9 January 2020 The Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, and Baron Kilkeel – otherwise known as Prince Harry – has never had much luck with his love life, and I don’t believe the matchmaker who set him up with Meghan Markle did him any...
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...
Sinn Fein’s mendacious rewriting of history now sees its members recast as civil rights heroes Published: Sunday 20 May 2018 Of course I know that the bloodstained record it defends, and the lies, corruption and destructiveness of the contemporary Irish...
Published 24 March 2018 ‘A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind,’ is a quotation from a constitutional expert, Walter Bagehot, writing in 1863 about the wedding of Prince Harry’s...