Author Jude Collins

I am just off the phone from a conversation with one of my sons who lives in London. We were talking about ChatGPT and as we spoke, he put in these two questions and the result. Amazing. ChatGPT talks more sense in three minutes than 90% of DUP politicians talk in a lifetime… Judge for […]

Jude remarked (4 Feb) on mantras, including Tony Blair’s “Education, Education, Education.”   I first took notice of Blair, hearing him on the radio Adressing the Labour Party Conference as Shadow Home Secretary.   He came out with the soundbite “Tough On Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime.”   I wrote that day to […]

The message is getting through. More and more pundits and columnists are making space for consideration of a border poll and a reunited Ireland. If they’re writing for the Irish Times, the chances are very much that they present such a poll as at best a distant possibility, with northern unionists rejecting reunification and southerners […]

  The British government has announced that there will be a public inquiry into the Omagh bomb, in which thirty-one people, including a woman with two unborn twins, were killed. Why is the British government doing this now, whereas repeated attempts to have an inquiry were denied? Cui bono – who will gain from this? […]

David Holden was a British soldier and he fired a machine gun which killed Aidan McAnespie when a bullet from it pierced his back. Holden yesterday was given a suspended sentence of three years for manslaughter. There are those who say this was unfair – to Holden. Do you agree?

Well. Just when you were about to throw up your hands and cry “The UK has gone mad as the ERG and the DUP have a strangle-hold on it, and so it will never dare accept any curb on its economic activity!” – even as your hands head heaven-wards, word comes through – they’ve done […]

  Though the Catholic Bishops of Ireland collectively supported the British appointed Provisional Government of 1922, and acquiesced in its murder of its Republican prisoners, that irregular junta, stuffed full of pietistic Catholics, chose not to  follow the normal European practice of giving workers a day’s break from work so that they were free to […]

Is the Tory party in its death throes? Zahawi’s hidden millions, B Johnson party animal, PPE contracts for mates, Matt Hancock and that loving feeling  – is there no end to it? Aren’t some people really brave. Armed only with clubs and big dogs, a group of Irish people attacked a tented area where a […]

I watched an old programme last night where Michael  Portillo’s train took him to Romania and its capital Bucharest.It showed a massive monumental block of flats, no uglier than the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome, where many acres of handsome streets had been cleared of their residents at a few hours’ notice and flattened by […]

  The Irish Times this morning continues reporting bits of the survey it’s done regarding Irish politics and a united Ireland.The paper emphasise the impartiality of the research, with 1,000  people in the north and 1,000 people  in the south questioned, and in addition  focus group discussion. Today’s report tells the reader how much (or […]