by RuthDE | Mar 19, 2024 | 2024, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, March
Before I get onto more solemn topics, here’s a news item that made me laugh last week. It was a video of the Irish Ambassador to Israel, Sonya McGuinness, eloquently telling an Israeli/Palestinian female peace rally in Jerusalem last year that she had lived in Belfast...
by RuthDE | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Daily Telegraph, January, Journalism
The beloved writer wouldn’t be published these days, yet her popularity among young people has soared Published 26 January 2023 his week, during an insomniac night, I was yet again re-reading Persuasion – no one else soothes quite like Jane Austen. Delighting in its...
by RuthDE | Nov 15, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November
I admit to having been rather irritated by Queen’s professor Colin Harvey’s recent complaints about being under threat, since I think he has a tendency to take himself unduly seriously, to see criticism as abuse and to flinch from the hurly burly that goes with...
by RuthDE | Oct 22, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
We should be helping young victims of overprotective parents embrace debate, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 October 2018 I’m struggling with my latest satirical crime novel, Death of a Snowflake, which is set on a campus dominated by virtue-signalling,...
