Author Jude Collins

So – the Tory party’s runners and riders to replace Bojo are up and running. Three people seem to have a pretty firm grasp of the front three spot – Sunak, Truss and Mordaunt. So which of those three would you like to see become British PM – or do you care? Naomi Long has […]

    SCOTT DIED IN 1932 BUT HIS DIARIES FIRST SAW THE LIGHT IN 1961. I don’t recall any Irish, or other response to them. But they are primes sources for an understanding of the first three decades of the 20th Century. I quoted here Lloyd George’s statement of 29 October 1921 that if he […]

    Like many in the Catholic community I feel a deep sense of relief that my least favourite day of the year has passed. This year much like every other year before it in the failed existence of ‘Northern Ireland’ -and for many years preceding the creation of this sectarian statelet- large swathes of […]

          So that’s it for another year. All done and dusted bar the shouting (and the Scarva Sham Fight).  I live in a staunchly Loyalist town, and strangely, as a nationalist, always have , so I have the unenviable pleasure of seeing all the sectarianism and vile bigotry first hand every […]

To aid my memory, and incidentally, to give my admirers and critics all the ammunition they need, I give below some of my better efforts published in various papers and reproduced as blogs here. The titles are  in alphabetical order.    A     A MAN WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO  LAUGH.   […]

The Twelfth – oh dear, the Twelfth. Isn’t it a pity it comes round just once a year? But is it really a hatefest and not just a simple family day out for unionists? How are you fixed for surviving the winter, given the rate at which petrol, oil, gas,food and everything else is rocketing? […]

  And so once more, we come to the Day of Division, or the Twelfth of July. Over the years I have pointed out to individual unionists that the Orange Order is an anti-Catholic organisation, and on each occasion it has provoked real anger. I don’t remember them denying that it is anti-Catholic, but I […]

  As usual I started with the Culture Section which is always the best part, with some writers I have learned to trust     But, as part of the current  wall-to-wall Russophobia and Bellophilia in all mainstream media in these islands, under the subsection marked “HiSTORY” it  had a headline “The Russian Cult of […]

  It is said that the earliest ambition of Boris Johnson was to be a/THE  World King, and there is nothing in his subsequent career to suggest that he ever abandoned it. He has got as far in the world as any Britisher not of Royal parentage can get.   Though he has conceded that […]

  In 2014 the IRISH DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN  AFFAIRS WAS BUSILY SPONSORING   FAKE HISTORY. In Britain the IRISH AMBASSADOR was enthusiastically involved, as I observed at the time in the Evening Echo (Cork) in December of that year and repeated in Part 1, (My Blog 8 July 2022) The piece below first appeared in the on-line Irish […]