Author Jude Collins

I never cease to be amazed by the number of things I don’t know. I was in a library yesterday, and while I love books, just looking at the rows and rows of volumes which I will never read, and so will remain ignorant of what their authors say in them, I felt, yes, good […]

AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 John M. Corcoran Esq, ChairmanMichael J. Cummings, Secretary March2, 2023 The roll-out of Britain’s leaving the European Union officially began with Parliament’s adoptionof the 2020 Trading and Cooperation Act but other pacts dealing with financial and legal sectorsmay take years to resolve. The verdict of political […]

Keir Starmer has plans to make Sue Gray  his Chief-of-Staff. The Tories claim this proves that her famous investigation of No 10 parties was a stitch-up. Was it? And is Boris Johnson planning a comeback, or is he just mad as hell that the guy he made Chancellor is now prime minister? The Irish Examiner […]

    DID JAMES CONNOLLY  ever insult anyone for the language they spoke or for their ethnicity?   Not really. When standing for election for Dublin Corporation he had his election literature published in Yiddish, as well as in English. And he wrote in clear English.   Did Pearse or Thomas MacDonagh disparage English language […]

Consider this: you open your front door one morning and to your dismay, you see the large man from three doors up engaged in a ferocious fist-fight with the smallish man five doors down. There is blood, there are cries of pain, there is ripped clothing. How do you respond?   Would you pass a […]

  Colleagues….we’re in the battle of our generation. And I’m here to talk about the money! The pay of ordinary working people across every sector has, incrementally, bit by bit, over 40 years, gone steadily down – whilst returns to the wealthiest have risen inexorably: through corporate profit and shareholders dividends; through speculation and usury; […]

“It doesn’t cut the mustard”. That was the judgement yesterday of Ian Paisley, ever keen to draw attention to himself on any topic (with the obvious exception of sponsored holidays). What the mustard wasn’t being cut by, of course, was the latest (and, one hopes, final) version of the Protocol agreement between the EU and […]

  Is it really one year already? Did anyone say it would be over by Christmas like they did in 1914 ?  Well Christmas has come and gone and very much like the trenches of the First World War, ground lost and won can some times be measured in single digit metres and kilometres. To […]

  Listening to James O’Brien and some commentators today concerning the just announced intended meeting of the British Monarch and the President of the European Commission it seemed to be agreed that the DUP would never find fault with the Monarch. The remote ancestors of the DUP repudiated King James the Second and helped bring […]