Author Jude Collins

  This week it has been incredibly refreshing to see a leader announce himself to the wider public by representing the true interests of ordinary working-class people in the form of RMT’S Mick Lynch. In contrast to ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer – who should be filling this role – Lynch reflects everything that he is authentic, […]

    None of the (British) sources I cited : Piers Brendon, Keeper of the Churchill Archives and a Fellow Of Churchill College.Cambridge, England, Claud Cockburn author of The Devil’s Decade  nor Robert Boothby were in Stalin’s pocket. The Poles made a pact with Hitler in 1934 and grabbed a slice of Czechoslovakia in 1938.  […]

    The new head of the British Army, General Sir Patrick Sanders describes himself as the first man to take such command “in the shadow of a land war in Europe, since 1941, and while not expressing any wish to join in the current land war, is  determined that his forces will do their […]

PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT DAIL DUELS, THE ECONOMIC HEALTH NORTH AND SOUTH, CLIMATE CRISIS, & FUEL POVERTY   The exchanges between FG and SF are getting nastier – witness the exchange recently in the Dail between Pearse Doherty and Leo Varadkar. Is this symptomatic of the differing personalities… Or is it ideology?  Or both?    The […]

In a recent podcast with Pat McArt, I suggested that President Michael D Higgins, while he possesses intelligence, eloquence and insight, is a man who is very aware possessing these attributes.   Pat in his good-natured way made a reference to people who never passed a mirror they didn’t like. So that’s me laying my cards […]

Does Boris Johnson assume that everyone else is an idiot? A quick glance through his Cabinet might suggest he would be right to make such an assumption, although you’d have to add ‘devious’ to ‘idiot’ in several cases. An example. Johnson is in serious difficulties at home – no, not in his house, at least […]

As I write, Official Ireland (Dublin, SF, SDLP etc) is having a collective heart attack as London proposes to over-ride the Protocol. Official Ireland (Dublin, SF, SDLP etc) is now caught in a trap into which Official Ireland could not jump fast enough as we see below:1. Official Ireland (Dublin, SF, SDLP etc) REFUSED to […]

‘Derry-Girl’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell featured in a TV documentary recently, where she visited an Orange marching band. She asked them if they knew any Wolfe Tone tunes – and she asked them what they thought about Bloody Sunday. Was that a good idea? The price of renting a car in the south of Ireland is about […]

They say that if a man is to hang in the morning it concentrates  his mind. In May 1916, Eamon de Valera wrote to his friend Mick Ryan, one of two legendary Triple Crown winners, with whom he had played rugby when teaching at Rockwell College- “Just a line to say I played my last match […]

  On April 2 I wrote a BLOG “Ethnicity, Ethics, Religion and Politics” because it is dangerous to believe that because a politician can be trusted because of their colour or family or declared faith they may be trusted to apply ethics to politics. Having a Catholic or Quaker, a White- skinned or Black-skinned Prime […]