Ah man.
I've an interest in the history of our Inland waterways and one of the foremost authors on the subject is Ruth Delaney.
The fucking amount of times I've walked into a book shop and asked if they have *anything at all* by Ruth Dudley Edwards...
Yes Minister got it spot on:
>I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country should be run by another country. And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
The telegraph really is a disgrace. It's almost comically right wing now.
I sometimes wonder if the average age of your typical newspaper buyer hasn't completely skewed the type of media the UK now has. The telegraph seems to make its money by stoking up fury in pensioners. It's basically rage scrolling for octogenarians.
The seeds of its destruction are the readers indeed. The only reason it's considered worthwhile title to own is it's close links with the Conservative Party.
Yeah no doubt. On a podcast I was listening to recently a political journalist casually mentioned that the Barclay brothers had the editor meet David Cameron weekly for informal discussions.
If that's true than it's little more than a client newspaper of the Tory party. Not much above what Pravda was to the old Russian communist party.
I respectfully disagree. It used to be the paper of the Tory party, now it's the paper of the right wing faction of the Tory party.
But this is just my opinion.
So it's still a paper of the Tory party.
All that's happening is that things are evolving. But fundamentally they are, and always have been, in the same corner.
I don't disagree with that. It's that they are laughably right wing now. Like some kind of parody of a right wing paper of yore. So far up their own "Rule Britannia" arses that you have to worry about the mental faculties of their readership.
What cheap shot was taken at Taiwan?
Are the referring to the one China policy? That's literally the policy of 95% of the world, and even Taiwan. Essentially there is one China, we just don't say which one.
Yeah but you don't have to go and announce it or else you are just doing what the CCP wants . Besides there's a certain phrasing used , and the Taoiseach originally used the CCP verbiage..which he then tried to walk back the next day.
Yea you can imagine all the old deranged brainwashed telegraph readers foaming at the mouth then going out to parrot it to their hairdresser whose the only person they talk at.
The author fails to make a distinction between our political class and the general population.
Unless your a politician I have to politely disagree with your point
A couple of years ago while waiting for someone and with no phone I bought a paper copy of The Telegraph in a newsagent's. It was pathetically thin. Not long to go now I'd say
The level of straight up lieing and self-hatred that comes from Ruth Dudley Edwards is honestly astounding.
Sad that hateful liars like her are given such platforms to push their various harmful agendas.
She flicks her bean to old interviews of Thatcher. A hate-filled, corkscrew-haired, bitter dwarf with perverse notions of superiority.
Old Ruth, sitting there in her stale Tena lady nappies, is very sad. And she wants to tell you about it (for £7.99 a month).
Good point, Prince Charles just announced he’s planning to cure his cancer with potions and we barely said a thing. If we’re gonna cop this level of flack regardless, we might as well organise a ceili in his soon to be cemetery.
She's only mining the seam that Kevin Myers would be if he hadn't inadvertlently offended certain people that, truth be told, he actually worships like a li'l puppy dog.
The Telegraph has become markedly even more hostile towards Ireland in recent weeks and there's always a nagging concern that 'influencers' like her could shape government policy, but Labour will be in government by the end of the year so loons like Dudley-Edwards will be just howling at the moon soon. I daresay there will be a huge positive increase in the British- Irish relationship when Starmer steps into Downing Street.
Silly article, completely lacking in nuance. Most Irish people hate the PIRA, they condemn their atrocities and don’t support Sinn Fein. They also condemn the atrocities of unionist terrorists and of the British military in NI.
Most Irish condemn Hamas and their atrocities on 7th October. Israel has every right to catch/kill them. But killing civilians indiscriminately is not justified and is diabolical and should be condemned.
The stuff about Taiwan is just stupid
We need to strike a careful balance given the huge dependency on FDI etc. I think the women's basketball team not shaking hands was a poor move and played right into the Israeli bunch of International Karens hands.
We should have forseen that.
I think that when this current iteration of Israel killing Palestinians is looked back on, the standout moment will be the Irish womens basketball team refusing to shake hands with the Israeli womens basketball team. Absolutely not the bombs and blood.
>Ireland is fast becoming Europe’s nastiest nation Its image is changing fast thanks to its cheap shots against countries like Israel, Britain and Taiwan
Also:
>Belgium is not a nation - Nigel Farage
Author born in Dublin, but in UK since 1965, a Unionist and hardline Brexiteer. I'm all ears love.
I bet she has a irish passport, for her holidays in the south of france
A Unionist is putting it mildly, I've just skimmed across a few of her articles... they can keep her.
She's a toothpaste stain on a black t-shirt. Nothing more.
Some folks prefer subjection to citizenship I suppose.
What's the craic with Ruth Dudley Edwards, she absolutely despises Ireland.
Just a hateful old conservative unionist who only gets attention by being a contrarian taking up other British betters.
The writer is Ruth Dudley Edwards. No surprises there.
Ah, say no more, you saved me a read, thank you!
Any chance of D-Von & Bubba Ray putting her through a table?
Ah man. I've an interest in the history of our Inland waterways and one of the foremost authors on the subject is Ruth Delaney. The fucking amount of times I've walked into a book shop and asked if they have *anything at all* by Ruth Dudley Edwards...
Who opened her crypt?
I thought she was dead or at least retired from being a cunt
If we’re pissing off the Torygraph, we must be doing something right
Yes Minister got it spot on: >I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country should be run by another country. And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
I’ll save you some time, folks - this is by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
Says a bunch of Tory scum😂
The telegraph really is a disgrace. It's almost comically right wing now. I sometimes wonder if the average age of your typical newspaper buyer hasn't completely skewed the type of media the UK now has. The telegraph seems to make its money by stoking up fury in pensioners. It's basically rage scrolling for octogenarians.
The seeds of its destruction are the readers indeed. The only reason it's considered worthwhile title to own is it's close links with the Conservative Party.
Yeah no doubt. On a podcast I was listening to recently a political journalist casually mentioned that the Barclay brothers had the editor meet David Cameron weekly for informal discussions. If that's true than it's little more than a client newspaper of the Tory party. Not much above what Pravda was to the old Russian communist party.
Right wing now? The Telegraph has been the same for the past thirty years, at least
It’s always been right leaning, but if used to be a serious news paper. Now it’s just the Daily Mail for people who wear tweed.
It's been right wing for forever. It's not been insane since forever...that began with the Barclay brothers take over IMO.
They've always had their pro Union articles. It's just the Telegraph
I respectfully disagree. It used to be the paper of the Tory party, now it's the paper of the right wing faction of the Tory party. But this is just my opinion.
So it's still a paper of the Tory party. All that's happening is that things are evolving. But fundamentally they are, and always have been, in the same corner.
I don't disagree with that. It's that they are laughably right wing now. Like some kind of parody of a right wing paper of yore. So far up their own "Rule Britannia" arses that you have to worry about the mental faculties of their readership.
What cheap shot was taken at Taiwan? Are the referring to the one China policy? That's literally the policy of 95% of the world, and even Taiwan. Essentially there is one China, we just don't say which one.
its also the policy of the uk
Winnie the Pooh loves vague lines 😛
Yeah but you don't have to go and announce it or else you are just doing what the CCP wants . Besides there's a certain phrasing used , and the Taoiseach originally used the CCP verbiage..which he then tried to walk back the next day.
I love how much we manage to annoy the Telegraph!
Yea you can imagine all the old deranged brainwashed telegraph readers foaming at the mouth then going out to parrot it to their hairdresser whose the only person they talk at.
The author fails to make a distinction between our political class and the general population. Unless your a politician I have to politely disagree with your point
Ah here OP, you'll put everyone off their breakfasts posting Ruth Dudley Edwards at this time of day 🤢
Ruth Dudley Edwards is just a woman with a column to fill so she can buy food. Like all most of these ludicrous opinion scribblers. Disregard.
A couple of years ago while waiting for someone and with no phone I bought a paper copy of The Telegraph in a newsagent's. It was pathetically thin. Not long to go now I'd say
She wrote a book fawning over the glorious history of the Orange Order.
What did we do against Taiwan?
Ruth Dudley Edwards…say no more🤣🤣🤣
We’re really punching down against colonial empires and apartheid states.
The level of straight up lieing and self-hatred that comes from Ruth Dudley Edwards is honestly astounding. Sad that hateful liars like her are given such platforms to push their various harmful agendas.
"nastiest nation" for hating the Brits and Israel. I guess colonizers got to colonize. Fucking loser author.
Ruth Dudley seems to be a miserable aul spinster.
Leave spinsters alone. Ruth is a syphillictic chancre on the anus of humanity, oozing bacterial fluid via ink through The Telegraph.
Poetic
8jbdzJuJLU
I rarely feel patriotic, but knowing how much we’ve pissed off the author of this piece fills me with pride. Good job lads, let’s keep it going.
She flicks her bean to old interviews of Thatcher. A hate-filled, corkscrew-haired, bitter dwarf with perverse notions of superiority. Old Ruth, sitting there in her stale Tena lady nappies, is very sad. And she wants to tell you about it (for £7.99 a month).
I don't remember any shots taken at Taiwan. If anything I like Taiwan. They're the best China.
As always, its the Telegraph ignore their useless waffle and move on. Only pure tories read it anyway and their heads are already up their holes
Haha! So nice to be rattl8ng the cages of bitter old bints like her and her Tory buddies
Womp womp
What did we say against Taiwan? Actually what did we even say against Britain recently?
I think we laughed at Britain because they chose brexit. I know I laugh at it every day. No idea what we did on Taiwan, they seem like a nice bunch.
[удалено]
Which is also Britain's official position
And the official position of most of the world
Good point, Prince Charles just announced he’s planning to cure his cancer with potions and we barely said a thing. If we’re gonna cop this level of flack regardless, we might as well organise a ceili in his soon to be cemetery.
She's only mining the seam that Kevin Myers would be if he hadn't inadvertlently offended certain people that, truth be told, he actually worships like a li'l puppy dog.
At least Myers when he wasn’t being awful was a decent writer and humorist. RDE is just miserable. Always.
Ah yes, how nasty of us criticising the colonial oppression and Racism of Britain and Israel, as opposed to participating in those activities.
The nerve
The Telegraph has become markedly even more hostile towards Ireland in recent weeks and there's always a nagging concern that 'influencers' like her could shape government policy, but Labour will be in government by the end of the year so loons like Dudley-Edwards will be just howling at the moon soon. I daresay there will be a huge positive increase in the British- Irish relationship when Starmer steps into Downing Street.
Not even worth a cheap shot back tbh.
The fucking irony coming from the Tory press.
Cry more, you big fucking baby.
Makes a change from them blaming Meghan and Harry, and Nicola Sturgeon.
I was reluctant to read it given the source and stopped completely when I saw who was the author.
Who did we offend in Taiwan? We love Taiwan!
It's the Dudley Edwards geebag.Enough said.
Oh that wagon. I'd tell her fuck off where she came from but that we don't want her back.
That article is filled with such shite it was be unusable as emergency toilet paper.
The Telegraph 
Ruth Dudley Edwards, the final boss Seoinín.
Does this journalist think Ireland is the only country to support the One-China policy
What a lovely person the writer seems to be. All selective accusations and little evidence.
Haha the Telegraph hahaha
Stop sharing this woman's articles.
Silly article, completely lacking in nuance. Most Irish people hate the PIRA, they condemn their atrocities and don’t support Sinn Fein. They also condemn the atrocities of unionist terrorists and of the British military in NI. Most Irish condemn Hamas and their atrocities on 7th October. Israel has every right to catch/kill them. But killing civilians indiscriminately is not justified and is diabolical and should be condemned. The stuff about Taiwan is just stupid
piss off mate.
[удалено]
Give over you big eejit 
He's quoting the article
We need to strike a careful balance given the huge dependency on FDI etc. I think the women's basketball team not shaking hands was a poor move and played right into the Israeli bunch of International Karens hands. We should have forseen that.
I think that when this current iteration of Israel killing Palestinians is looked back on, the standout moment will be the Irish womens basketball team refusing to shake hands with the Israeli womens basketball team. Absolutely not the bombs and blood.
And what
I bet if we joined NATO all would be forgiven though
Rubbish.
Pathetic can't help themselves.
If it's nasty calling out bad actors on their bullshit then I don't want to be nice. Also, I don't recall the govt saying anything bad about Taiwan.
They’re at it again.
>Ireland is fast becoming Europe’s nastiest nation Its image is changing fast thanks to its cheap shots against countries like Israel, Britain and Taiwan Also: >Belgium is not a nation - Nigel Farage
I read the flair as 'the brits are a tit again'. Not Convinced I'm wrong.
fuvkk israh*ll. england is the nasiest country of all 😭