by RuthDE | Jan 30, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
I could never bear Nicola Sturgeon. It wasn’t because of her politics. I like many people I don’t agree with. But her narcissism and self-righteousness made my flesh creep. And I thought it a disgrace that her husband Peter Murrell was the chief executive of her...
by RuthDE | May 16, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
It is one of the oddities of these two islands that while many people proudly describe themselves as Irish, Scottish or Welsh nationalists, English nationalism is used as a term of abuse. Published: 16 May 2023 Celtic nationalists of various kinds have rebranded...
by RuthDE | Apr 11, 2023 | 2023, April, Belfast News Letter, Journalism
I hope everyone’s been having a good Easter. Published: 11 April 2023 Apologies for the graphic detail, but I’ve been out of action for three weeks since I slipped on a wet pavement, broke two small bones in my lumbar region and incautiously accepted painkillers that...
by RuthDE | Feb 21, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
Last year, Michelle O’Neill was telling us that Brexit would “inevitably lead to the breakup of the current constitutional arrangements in Britain and in Ireland”. Published: 21 February 2023 No more than Nicola Sturgeon, whom she described last week as a friend...
by RuthDE | Sep 14, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
I always scan letters to newspapers. Published: 14 September 2021 Contributors know they have to be brief to be published, so they often can sum up very pithily what columnists tease out at much greater length. This, last week, in the Irish Sunday Independent,...
by RuthDE | Feb 16, 2021 | 2021, Belfast News Letter, February, Journalism
The sun is shining, the weather forecast is encouraging, the target of vaccinating the 15 million most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom by February 15 was met ahead of time, and despite the mean-spirited way in which Brussels is persecuting Northern Ireland, I...
by RuthDE | Nov 4, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, November
New Act of Union needed that guarantees rights and autonomy of each UK region, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 4 November 2019 I’m back from Indianapolis, where I was (excuse the boast) ‘international guest of honor’ at Magna Cum Murder, a...
by RuthDE | Feb 23, 2018 | 2018, Daily Telegraph, Journalism
Published: 15 February 2018 It has been another groundhog week in Northern Ireland, with British and Irish politicians pleading for compromise in pursuit of renewed power sharing and the preservation of peace, and leaks to the media from both nationalists and...
