Author Jude Collins

  A letter in THE IRISH TIMES today  (June 7) from Dr Shane O’Rourke, of the ” Department of History, University of York, UK” cries out for the attention of all thinking people. Dr. O’Rourke is opposed to any compromise to settle the unpleasantness in Ukraine. He says “We should support Ukrainian people prepared to fight […]

Boris Johnson was sniffing during a post-vote interview last night – did you notice? It wasn’t a sniff of superiority, a nose-in-the-air-Bullingdon-Club sniff. It was the sniff of a man who can smell over 40% of his own MPs coming after him, armed with political clubs and knives. But hey – that’s a bit gloomy, […]

Letters Editor  WALL STREET JOURNAL  1211 Avenue of the Americas   New York, New York 10036  Dear Editor:  Dominic Green’s commentary on Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee (Reign of Dignity June 1,2022) was a bit cheeky.  He marks the Queen’s jubilee with words he imagines the Queen would speak.   She is merely a prop in a very […]

  That video – was it calculated sectarianism, the mask of Orangeism and unionism whipped off to show the nasty features to all? Or was it just a bit of drunken roaring, not meaning a lot? During the platinum jubilee celebrations, Northern Ireland was shown as represented by the Irish tricolour. Was that just a […]

I’ve just listened to as much of Talkback as I could manage.  I found it interesting and informing. Not intentionally, perhaps, but interesting and informing nonetheless. As I described in a recent blog, unionist politician David McNarry once went ballistic on air, when I suggested that the Orange Order was an anti-Catholic organisation. Called me […]

  Scott’s Diary for 28-29 October 1921 starts with a visit to Lloyd George who tells him that the Tory Party (which is in Coalition with his Liberals) is very restive over the Irish negotiations and the Sinn Fein delegation are very difficult.  Lloyd George said he had “told the Sinn Feiners that he must have […]

  The hatred recently on show at the Dundonald Orange hall is not anything new, in fact it has been there throughout its entire existence and is deeply ingrained in the very foundations of the Orange Order. Some may dismiss these actions as merely being the actions of a ‘few bad apples’ or a one-off […]

  Britain’s current Brexit crisis has its roots in the 1920 imposition of a partition wall around  six counties in Ireland.  Back then the Conservative government knew that governing and controlling that territory would require many of the policies and tactics used elsewhere in their colonial Empire often with terrible consequences.  When the Ministry of Defense became the […]

Wow. Now I’ve heard it all. And so, maybe, have you. I’m referring to the report that “a group of men” were shown on video  singing a song that mocked the murder of Michaela McAreavy, who died on her honeymoon in Mauritius. The singing appeared to take place in an Orange Lodge, since there were  […]

Unionists have now manoeuvred themselves into an  increasingly ridiculous position where their new enemy is the British Government who have become, for them, the next new reason for not engaging in political co-operation with the neighbours on this island. They cry foul at  the bogeyman of the EU (aka Dublin). This of course is not […]