Author Jude Collins

As the world and its mother know by now, the American delegation to the North has infuriated some unionist politicians by making references to a ‘manufactured’ problem in the protocol , AND  to the existence of ‘The Planter and the Gael’. We probe the thinking behind this. Did Sue Gray let Boris Johnson off the […]

    BRITAIN’S ROYAL LYING CORPS  YESTERDAY FLEW NOT IN SINGLE  LIES  BUT DROVES, The BBC , THE TIMES and all TV Channels turned their guns on China. Anti-Chinese propaganda has been increasing for years. Chinese police in Hong Kong were subjected to physical attacks by masked rioters carrying various weapons (not firearms) and refrained […]

What is it with some people, that when an uncomfortable  truth is spoken they go a bit bananas? I can think of at least two past occasions when I made a comment that was truthful in every way, but a great number of people were so furious, they would cheerfully have taken my naked body […]

I saw Allison Morris, late of that venerable organ The Irish News and currently of The Belfast Telegraph, on UTV’s Spotlight  recently.  In it she said she just loved censuses  – there was so much you could do with the figures. She got that one right. According to a recent NI Life and Times survey, […]

There were two letters in THE IRISH TIMES yesterday (24 May) which convincingly put the case for the return to the Irish non-belligerence in disputes between the Great Power Blocs and constructive neutrality as pursued for many decades by Eamon de Valera and Frank Aiken,  though of course neither of those statesmen got a mention. […]

I see where unionist politicians and ‘commentators’ like Jamie Bryson are critical of the US delegation because they are judged to be one-sided – too green. Gordon Lyons, DUP MLA, told the B(ritish)BC “We’re going to have a particular challenge with Congressman Neal”. Jamie Bryson, it seems, has Richie Neal marked as a supporter of […]

Have you heard?  Michelle O’Neill used the term ‘Northern Ireland’ in Stormont a while back, and now she’s gone and used it AGAIN at Westminster during an interview. “I think we shouldn’t get hung up on those things. It’s the beauty of the Good Friday Agreement – British, Irish or both or neither.” That’s what […]

Long, before the creation of Britain’s Royal Flying Corps , before the heavier-than-air flying machine flown by the American Wright Brothers, before the French Montgolfier Brothers  flight in a Balloon, England was renowned for flights of fancy. It is tempting to imagine that the country was known as Perfidious Albion before Icarus was a boy. […]

“A court in Ukraine has jailed a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion. Captured soldier Sgt Vadim Shishimarin was convicted of killing Oleksandr Shelipov, 62, in the north-eastern village of Chupakhivka on 28 February. He admitted shooting Mr Shelipov but said he had […]

        The late Brian O’Higgins was not a great poet.  But he was intelligent,and intelligible to the man and woman in the street on a tram or omnibus. But when trams in Dublin were festooned with the slogan “Fight For Ireland” paid for by the British War Office, he asked the above […]