At the weekend, I was in Dublin, where I was born and brought up, mostly seeing old friends. Published: 6 September 2022 When we got on to politics, there was the predictably gloomy view that there was no stopping the Shinners from getting into government. Some of my...
My late friend David Trimble saved unionists from having joint authority imposed on them because he fought nationalism, constitutional and violent, intelligently and imaginatively — despite the attacks from his own side. Published: 30 August 2022 He also benefited...
I apologise to those readers who hate Twitter, but awful though it can be, it’s a fact of life and like all political journalists I have to read it. Published: 15 February 2022 Last week’s highlights for me were not the usual entertainment of Shinnerbots spewing...
On Friday Twitter explained why it had permanently suspended a Twitter account in the name of Barbara Pym that had been founded and run by the Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris and friends. Published: 11 May 2021 “Using technology and human review in...
Well, the tweet from editor Alistair Bushe last Wednesday saying I was joining the News Letter certainly got the Shinnerbots excited. Published: 29 September 2020 For those of you who ignore social media, these are the armies of Sinn Fein supporters who assemble on...
Michelle O’Neill was abused online but it’s tame compared to what I receive, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 20 July 2020 Three Sinn Fein communications in the last few days intrigued me. What was Francie Molloy, the MP for Mid Ulster, up to when he...
Published: 17 October 2019 Twitter is a useful safety valve. I’ve been enjoying some reactions to a bizarre performance last night on Channel 4 News by a beefy chap in a balaclava – whose identity was protected by a weird voice-over, more Scottish than Irish. He...
SF got off lightly after its pathetic response to Ombudsman’s report on abuse probe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 24 September 2018 There was plenty of bile on Twitter the day after the Spotlight interview with Mairia Cahill about the Police...
Once decent Labour Party must ditch the anti-Semitism and refind its soul, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 May 2018 Among the uglier manifestations of the new Labour establishment is a hatred of Israel so profound as to be indistinguishable from pathological...
The BBC man must be defended, as a free Press is the very cornerstone of democracy Published: 5 March 2018 Sinn Fein wants Stephen Nolan off the airwaves. I know this because I read in the Irish News a column by Jim Gibney, one of the best-known of Sinn Fein’s...
