Author Jude Collins

  Messrs Kyle and Woodward set the cat among the pigeons, or indeed the chickens this week, when they individually stated in one way or another that a border poll was closer than many might think.  Peter Kyle, the Labour Party Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, to give him his full title, stated […]

  As indicated by several guest-bloggers on this site recently, the Alliance Party is getting more and more concerned as the core issue of a border poll is discussed more and more frequently. They always knew that one day, this dark-winged raven would fly in and roost in their living room; now that it has, […]

    Alliance has recently declined an invitation to participate in the hotly anticipated Ireland’s Future, ‘Together We Can’ event. They have described the event as a “rally to endorse a united Ireland”. For a party that is ostensibly constitutionally agnostic, perhaps this is an understandable position. When events such as church services marked the […]

  We are constantly regaled with stories as to the greatness of Thatcher and “wot she did for the country”. Lately we have been told daily that the current rate of inflation is the highest in 40 years. Who was in power 40 years ago? It was Margaret. Who would have thought? The reign of […]

Can there be a more tedious Labour MP than Sir Keir Starmer? As my valued friend and fellow-moaner Pat McArt has said at least once, Starmer looks and sounds like a man who’s had a personality by-pass, with the operation a total success. An example of his tedium: the Labour Party Conference closed, not with […]

    Prime Minister Truss dismissed US threats concerning British undermining of the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) and the Good Friday Agreement (GFA).  Although desperate for a US trade deal to bail them out of Brexit, Truss proclaimed Britain needed to do whatever it wished in NI and was not concerned about any US threat […]

            to CongressBrendanBoyle, CongressChrisSmith, CongressDanKildee, CongressDonaldPayneLaverneAlexander, CongressElizabeth, CongressElizabeth, CongressKathleenRice, CongressLongevinRI, CongressMikeQuigley, CongressRepCourtney, CongressDavid, CongressRepLanceGooden, CongressRepresentativeMalliotakis, CongressRepsentativeKeating, CongressSenatorRobertMenendez, CongressSenCharlesSchumerMartinBrennan, CongressStaffHouse, HouseForeignAffairs, HouseWays&Me3ans, MediaContactBrianDonovan, me, mediaIrishAdrian, MediaIrishDianeByrnes, MediapaperKCullen, PoliticalCongressJGonzalez, PoliticalCongressMaryNoonan Dear Friends:  While the arrogance of the British Prime Minister is breathtaking, it is not unexpected.  Her attitude is if the UK  wishes  to bully Ireland economically and politically,  we will do so without a US-UK trade deal.  Why?  Because it is more important that Britain retain sovereignty […]

Remember those census figures? Of course you do. Unionist reaction appears to be that they are a signal that everyone in NEI must be respected, allowed to be…happy, in our little stateen. Is that the first thing comes to your mind when you read those census figures? Mmm, me neither. In Italy, a right-wing candidate, […]

  They continually harp on that the majority here want to stay in the UK, then let’s put it to the test. They never try to sell the benefits of remaining in the UK. Rather than concentrating all their efforts on stopping a poll they should instead use some of their energy in promoting the […]

    The Belfast-born essayist Robert Lynd wrote that before London millionaires and Conservatives and Ulster Unionists determined to use armed force to defy a British House of Commons majority offering Home Rule to Ireland, most Irish people were as addicted to parliamentary politics as to the teapot. He was writing an appreciation of James […]