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...
Sinn Fein’s refusal to allow its representatives to vote with their consciences may prove very costly, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 January 2019 ‘How many Cork people does it take to found a movement to break the political cartel?”...
I have sympathy for a man buffeted by forces inside and outside the Vatican, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 August 2018 It’s a dreadful job being Pope these days, as the world learns more of the terrible secrets the Vatican and Roman Catholic clergy...
Critics of the church are becoming as oppressive as the institution they attack, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 August 2018 ‘It was a censorious, bleak, closed-minded, unforgiving society of squinting windows and banned books and hellfire sermons....
