Author Jude Collins

These are not good times to be a unionist – or more precisely, a DUPer. Queen Elizabeth dies, the DUP stand ready to express their sorrow and burnishing their image with the British public, an image currently so soiled you’d need a bottle of Brasso taken to it. But hey, here’s an opportunity. King Charles […]

As a contribution to the Decade of Remembrance I sent the piece below to THE IRISH EXAMINER, which it was kind enough to publish on  28 December 2013 (my 72nd Birthday.)   Two of my Mother’s 4 brothers served in the British Forces in that conflict.. Jack, aged 16 was wounded serving on HMS Princess […]

Will the United Kingdom ever have a people led social revolution as it heads back into the dark ages?  Wow , just wow ! Britain is about to enter a sustained period of recession to include black outs and energy rationing. This is not Lebanon under attack from an American inspired devaluation of their currency […]

      Though NASA was unable recently to revisit the Moon, you will see from above my good self at my Lunar Chateau relaxing in the Var in Southern Provence, three miles from the Med for the first time in three years. My wife and I first stayed on this site in a hired […]

Apparently as Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was being transferred in Edinburgh, amid the many cheering and clapping, there was a number who in fact BOOED.  And apparently there was a car cavalcade in the Bogside celebrating the death of Queen Elizabeth. Is that the worst of bad taste? Or have people a right to differ, regardless […]

The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II  may  be forever marred by the legacy of lawlessness—a war by most measures— the British government waged in their colonial carve-out of Ireland.    Prime Minister Truss and the Conservatives have a plan to bury part of that past and, in the process, to avoid a “State sponsor of terrorism” label.   Parliament […]

British Prime Minister Truss’s campaign pit-stop in Northern Ireland offered no comfort for the families of more than 1000 civilians killed in N. I.    She has pledged support for a cover-up bill which would grant amnesty to the killers, end litigation, deny liability claims and close the books on any future investigations into, for example, […]

There was plenty of rain in London yesterday, but the day will be remembered for the end of the long reign of Queen Elizabeth. Does her death lead Britain into a dodgy period? And was her visit to  the south of Ireland in 2011, when she visited the Garden of Remembrance, a game-changeer? Meanwhile, Liz […]

  And at last the waiting is over. We now know that Liz Truss is Tory leader and tomorrow will become UK Prime Minister. Are you doing handstands in delight, or muttering darkly of bad things to come? The Sunday Independent opinion poll shows Sinn Féin increasing its lead over Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, […]

Will the DUP get a nice fat Protocol concession from the Tories before there’s another general election here? And if they do, will it affect their electoral performance? The Ukrainian refugee problem in the south of Ireland looks to be getting out of control – some 50,000+ refugees are now in the south of Ireland, […]