by RuthDE | Jul 27, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, July
There’s no point in providing history students with an inoffensive curriculum, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 July 2020 Last month I saw a young woman on a TV news programme being asked if she thought Winston Churchill was a racist whose statue on...
by RuthDE | Jun 16, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, June
A new breed of ‘offence archaeologists’ waging war on anyone holding dissenting views, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 June 2020 What sort of decrepit rock did you climb from under you absolutely hideous harridan?” tweeted one of my critics last week. “You’re...
by RuthDE | Feb 18, 2019 | 2019, February, Journalism, Sunday Independent
An outbreak of sanity over statues runs into Sinn Fein’s tunnel-vision problem, writes Ruth Dudley EdwardsPublished: 17 February 2019’I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All,” wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a...