Author Jude Collins

At the 2016 Assembly Election, I was disappointed that some people were gullible enough to give their endorsement to two People Before Profit candidates. I sat with my head in my hands for a while, in frustration that Gerry Carroll and Eamonn McCann would now be salaried by the public purse to propagate their usual […]

Humbly, the Perkin has an admission to make. But first by way of a context : one of the most spectacular natural views afforded to the human eye on the island of the Ancient Order of Glibernia is one’s first glimpse of the Kingdom of Kerry. The glimspse one gets after negotiating the endless, pentitential […]

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On October 12th 2016 under the heading “John Redmond’s Ambition for Ireland” I quoted a speech made by Redmond in London on St Patrick’s Day 1913 and commented on it. It is not a speech often, or perhaps ever, reprinted during my lifetime, or commented on. Thirty years after Redmond’s speech, on St Patrick’s Day 1943, […]

If I were a unionist, I suspect I’d be feeling unhappy this morning. Unhappy X 3, in fact. The first reason for my unhappiness would be the recent election here. While the DUP is still the largest party elected to Stormont, it’s had a dramatic slide in the number of seats it obtained and its […]

I was watching the Andrew Marr show on BBC ONE   about half an hour ago – or part of it. They had Gerry Adams on. It was a good example of how the north is dealt with by the English media. I knew Adams was going to be on, which was why I made a point of […]

  I’m always interested in the people who are put forward as pundits when politics is discussed on TV. Events happen and pundits tell us how we should think about them. Pundits are very influential people. Some of them are good and some are pretty tedious. Chris Donnelly, for example, is very effective. He knows […]

    The other morning I tuned into BBC Radio 4 and its God-slot “Thought for Today.”  Its female presenter was talking about Fake News and mentioned “Harry Evans” , whom she regarded as the Gold Standard of journalistic integrity. So I got up and went to the bathroom. Harold Evans, since Knighted, edited “The Times” from 1981 […]

Anyone analysing the election results will notice one big trend beyond the decline of political Unionism – the republican vote is alive and People Before Profit’s support is dying. Mr. Carroll is becoming the lone dim candle in the old gothic cathedral, with the wax burning faster than exchequer wood-pellets. Within less than a year […]

Pics 1-4 are by Perkin Warbeck   Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 “FALLEN ARCH         by     Perkin Warbeck At around 9.30 am on Wednesday morning the huge natural arch in the sea cliffs known The Azure Window, collapsed. After standing for over tens of thousands of years it collapsed like a cheap deckchair […]