Author Jude Collins

      Sir,   Your Editorial today appears to contradict comments made by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on October 5th 1938 regarding the Munich Agreement.   Following it Poland seized part of Czechoslovakia, and when the British and French Ambassadors in Warsaw attempted to speak to the Polish  Foreign Minister, Colonel […]

Benito Mussolini started off as a Socialist, but broke with his comrades, becoming a warmonger allied with the British.  He edited the paper IL POPOLO  d’ITALIA which was bankrolled by British Intelligence from 1917 and after he had come to power by gangster tactics was dubbed a Knight of the Bath by Britain’s King George […]

  Will the DUP change their tune now Rishi Sunak is in town? Or will they dig in their heels still further, use up what political oxygen they have, and end up in a political mortuary? Nicola Sturgeon – her resignation was as classy as the woman herself. But is her leaving politics the end […]

Why did Nicola Sturgeon decide to quit as First Minister and leader of the SNP? She said that she felt in her head and in her heart that this was the time to go. I find that a convincing answer.Using your head, you see the political landscape. And Nicola Sturgeon saw a clouded, potentially stormy […]

  Is the balloons-in-the-sky phenomenon just a lot of hot air?  Maybe not. But it raises a number of obvious questions.   Given that I can use Google Earth to check out the state of my neigbhour’s driveway and front door, isn’t it likely that China (if China owned those balloons) would have chosen a […]

Jeffrey Donaldson and Paul Givan – Givan particularly – have in recent days been loud about the fact that they’ve met with and talked to Dáithí MacGabhann’s family. They presumably  see their conversation as a plus, so I’m wondering what they said.   Jeffrey: As a Christian, I feel your pain, Mr McGowan. Paul:  I’m […]

Why is Bertie Ahern rejoining Fianna Fáil? Is he planning to run for Irish president in 2025? Or does he just want to do a victory lap on the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement? Daithí’s Law – that would assume consent for use of a dead person’s organs in transplant, except it was stated […]

    PART ONE The American reporter Seymour Hersh, born in 1937, in 1969 reported on the 1968 American murder of men, women and children and the rape of some of them in Mai Lai. He reported later on the clandestine American bombing of Cambodia which brought Pol Pot to power and apparently won Henry […]

I wonder will Jeffrey Donaldson ever meet up with Volodymyr Zelensky? Perhaps they already have: there was Jeffrey in that packed room of British MPs, clapping along with all the other MPs as the man who played the role of President of Ukraine in a hugely popular Ukrainian TV series  appealed to the British MPs […]