Author Jude Collins

  OK – I don’t think I can take it anymore. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, but if the opinion is riddled with contradictions, it’s important to note that and dismiss it. I’m talking about those people who publicly wring their hands at the bloody way we chopped into each other here for some […]

Plus a song called THE BOATYARDSee link below . . .There is a place, beyond moralisingDown the road and round the cornerFrom a wee village called Hippocracy.It’s not hard to see these folksAnd their one eyed blindnessAs described by YeatsAround the early times of the Free State.The Free State ?A contradition in termsAfter a toxic […]

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald recently appeared on the popular TV show Good Morning Britain and was interviewed by Richard Madeley about a UI poll in 2030. How did she do? Play the video for an answer. Donald Trump is in something of a pickle over the Epstein files. The suspicion is that […]

    In his last book, ‘Miles Away’, Nick Edmunds , narrated a plot set firmly in the 1970s and happening in his native Scotland. With his second, recently  published  novel, ‘Ragged Island’, the scene shifts to the broader landscape of the Americas and jumps forward in time to 2030. Apparently, at one point , […]

We can often tell the way people see the world by the range of their vision.There are those who like to keep focused on a particular point or event, cutting out any surrounding matters and declaring that only this laser-like focus will take us through. To quote Father Jack, it will and my arse.  We’ve […]

  RSH. Bring a Pac-a-Mac. By Randall Stephen Hall. With an original song from 2010 CUT MY HAIR https://youtu.be/NQo9q_NU-EQ?si=uZNsxuOkmstgVzjp   When I was young and growing up  In North Belfast 1957 – 2025, in a lower middle class family, I was taken to the 12th Celebrations yearly. I even marched once, with my uncle Richard […]

History moves so slowly, you could weep. Here’s a column I wrote in The Irish News on 11 July 2002. Few things unite myself and William of Orange. I’m not of royal blood, I don’t have long curly hair and I’m not gay. But there is one thing we have in common – the Twelfth […]

You could call it a tale of two bonfires, but this Twelfth it goes beyond bonfires. What must be asked is ‘Who is running things in Belfast?’and the answer must be loyalist paramilitaries. And if you think a bonfire built beside an electricity sub-station and a heap of asbestos is bad, check out Moygashel with […]

MAD – that’s the acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction, and it’s the basis on which the world powers with nuclear weapons operate. If you attack us with nuclear weapons, we’ll hit back and we’ll all die. I remember a New Yorker cartoon years ago which caught the system rather well. It showed a Stone Age […]

There’s a scene in My Fair Lady, where Eliza Doolittle has had enough and tells off the men surrounding her: Words!“Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!I get words all day through;First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?” I thought of Eliza yesterday during Talkback. Presenter Crawley was looking […]