Every time I hear the sanctimonious voice of Peter Hain — that one-time rebel and enthusiast for Irish unity who in 2015 swapped his Commons seat for a peerage — I struggle to understand why the media think him an expert on legacy issues. Published: 18 May 2021 There...
Foster and Robinson have made important speeches recently which we need to discuss, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 12 August 2018 I’ve been reading and hearing a lot recently about unionist attitudes to the possibility of losing a border poll on a united...
The 37 academics who wrote to complain demonstrated double standards and contempt for free speech, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 18 June 2018 Universities are increasingly under pressure from bullying lobby groups to abandon free speech. Consider this...
Deep divisions remain between North and South – and within the North itself Published: 17 June 2018 As I was ruminating on the implications of Leo Varadkar allegedly telling Fine Gael TDs that “the plates are shifting in Irish politics”, I...