First, I’d like to say that that though I wish him the very best, I’m sorry that Sam McBride is leaving the News Letter to take up an offer he can’t refuse. Published: 10 August 2021 I am proud to write for a newspaper that gives journalists their heads and allows...
With some of the usual suspects still boring on about a border poll, I want to go back to basics. Published: 6 July 2021 I apologise to those who have heard this story before, but I think it one of the most telling comments about Irish aspirations to unity I’ve ever...
I finished last week’s column about the account of Martin McGuinness’s life just published by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) with: Published: 26 January 2021 “Despite all their lies and intimidation, McGuinness’s followers cannot stop true history...
Published: 8 November 2020 “In current politics,” wrote respected political commentator Stephen Collins in the Irish Times on Friday, “there are two competing visions of Ireland’s future. “One is of a shared island in which all traditions are respected while the other...
I’m very relieved that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis did not cave into the pressure from politicians at home and abroad by setting up a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Published: 1 December 2020 He has not said there will never be such an inquiry,...
Published: 26 november 2020 Four of Northern Ireland’s political parties (Sinn Fein, the equally nationalist but anti-violence SDLP, the Greens and the liberal Alliance) have sent a letter to Secretary of State Brandon Lewis calling for a public inquiry into the 1989...
People seem to forget how crucial the ex- UUP leader was in helping to end the violence, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 17 August 2020 Did anyone notice, in all the tributes to John Hume, how rarely David Trimble was mentioned? Had you known nothing about the...
Published: 17 August 2020 I have been so unremitting and harsh a critic of the IRA and Sinn Fein since the early 1990s, that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness tried hard to have me silenced. Sinn Fein still try to shut me up with the help of libel lawyers, and an army...
Published: 4 August 2020 It is a grievous sin in Ireland, my native country, to speak any ill of the recently dead, but reading and listening to some of the guff being produced by the likes of Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and the Irish president about John Hume, I...
In midst of coronavirus, try to ignore moaners, nitpickers and amateur scientists on social media, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 March 2020 Although I have a robust immune system and am in rude health, I recognise that I’m old and have obediently...
