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...
Can the leader of the moderate Ulster Unionist Party arrest the demoralisation caused by the NI Protocol and a weak justice system? Published: 2 September 2021 There is movement afoot in Northern Irish politics. After years of a dispiriting stalemate, with two...
As polls show many voters rejecting tribalism, the two main Unionist parties are likely to be devising a joint strategy Published: 19 June 2021 It’s easy to laugh at Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party: its followers are almost all Christian and socially...
With goodwill, there is a solution that avoids a hard border either on land or in the sea Published: 5 June 2021 The briefing war between the EU and the UK led to headlines this week saying that Brexit Minister Lord Frost thinks the Northern Ireland Protocol is...
The two big parties are conspiring to share financial spoils for electoral reasons, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 28 May 2018 When the DUP and Sinn Fein achieved electoral dominance and the late Chuckle Brothers – Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley...
A new book offers a moral solution to the legacy issue that is bedevilling negotiations, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 30 April 2018 Dear Secretary of State, You have been given the thankless job of trying to restore the Executive by squaring circles and...
Despite the fuss, my criticisms of the Belfast Agreement have nothing to do with Brexit, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 25 February 2018 Last week an article of mine in The Daily Telegraph sparked off a big row between Brexiteers and Remainers over the...
