by RuthDE | Mar 13, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Last week ex-minister Conor Murphy, the Northern Ireland finance minister who was recently – for Sinn Féin secret reasons – exported to be a senator in the south, was aggrieved. Double standards are what he’s complaining about. Published: 13 March 2025...
by RuthDE | Oct 11, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
Following the intricate politics of all parts of our two islands is like watching several daily soap operas transmitted simultaneously on different TV sets. Published: 10 October 2024 And in the background are war in Ukraine, hatred and violence in the Middle East and...
by RuthDE | Oct 3, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
I’ve always hated capital punishment, but I’m all for robust self-defence rather than appeasement. Published: 3 October 2024 In 1983, although I was an organiser of a letter from historians of Ireland opposing a motion in the House of Commons in favour of the...
by RuthDE | May 21, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
When I first began publishing light-hearted crime fiction, I was quoted as “feeling intellectually English and temperamentally Irish”. This caused deep offence in some Irish quarters, but it remains pretty accurate. Published: 21 May 2024 My English genes are very...
by RuthDE | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
Even in these terrible times, there are moments of joy from the Middle East. While Israel struggles for survival, and we mourn direct and indirect victims of the Hamas death cult, Douglas Murray’s online devastating put-downs of ignorance, hypocrisy, groupthink and...
by RuthDE | Oct 17, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, October
Journalist Andrew Neil summarised my feelings in a tweet on Sunday. “Looking at these shameful pro-Hamas demonstrations in London and elsewhere yesterday it struck me that Israel must be the only country in the world that is attacked for being attacked by a...
by RuthDE | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
The French president is young and smart, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards, and he has thought his reform strategy through Published: Sunday 8 April 2018 As the international swooning over the young, vigorous and cool French President Emmanuel Macron continues almost...
