by RuthDE | Jun 20, 2025 | 2025, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, June
Once again, I find myself extremely partisan in war. I cheer on Ukraine vs Russia and Israel vs Iran and its evil proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Unlike the BBC, I see no moral equivalence. Published: 19 June 2025 Putin is a very bad man who sees himself...
by RuthDE | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, December, Journalism
Firstly, I hope you and all those you love have had the happiest of Christmases. Published: 27 December 2022 Secondly, I believe that the United Kingdom’s prospects are a great deal better than the doom-mongers claim. They usually are. Bad news sells: good news...
by RuthDE | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, Daily Telegraph, Journalism, July
The country thought it could have its cake and eat it, by relying on the hated British for its defence Published: 1 July 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is posing Ireland – which is not a Nato member – with difficult choices. In its happy position of having next...
by RuthDE | Mar 15, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Some unintended consequences of Vladimir Putin’s megalomaniacal and merciless attack on the people of Ukraine that are appearing in Ireland now are embarrassing Sinn Fein. Published: 15 March 2022 Owing to having been brought up and educated in Dublin, and then spent...
by RuthDE | Mar 1, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
I know that what matters at the moment is whether the lunatic in his Moscow lair can be prevented from murdering vast numbers in his doomed mission to restore the Russian Empire that was abolished in 1917 and be brought down by his own egomania.Published: 1 March...
