Author Jude Collins

Unlike for example Jeremy Paxman, Alastair Campbell appears to have lost none of his sharp edge. He has denounced the idea of the DUP going into some sort of coalition with the Tories as a “sordid, dangerous and distasteful deal.” He believes this has the capacity to damage the peace process here: “How can our […]

Many people who are nationalist/republican   rolled out of bed this morning feeling appalled. Not, if they are nationalist, because the SDLP was obliterated at the polls two days ago. And not, if they are republican, because they stayed up too late last night still celebrating the three extra seats Sinn Féin scooped in the […]

Pics 1- 4 are by Perkin Warbeck ‘LET’S CELEBRATE, WE’RE FEELING GREAT !’ The most important General Election held during the past week saw the re-election of the man who has been, in effect, An Taoiseach of the Truncated European Union for the past six months. That would be Joseph Muscat, the leader of the […]

So unionism is now a minority concern? In the election to the Assembly earlier this year unionism lost its claim to the majority of seats for the first time. Given that the Ireland was deliberately carved up to give unionism a permanent and self-perpetuating majority, this was certain a notable benchmark. Obviously, unionism had tried […]

Sinn Féin campaign on the basis it will not attend Westminster parliament in England. We Irish have no desire to interfere in the internal affairs of England, Wales or Scotland, and we will never assimilate into their colonial governance system. So, stop demanding we submit to it. SF voters don’t expect another party to represent […]

Weeelllllll. Hands up if you saw that coming? Right, me neither. My prediction ability has remained firmly in place – I’m still rotten at it. On the other hand, even in their wildest naughty dreams, the DUP can’t have imagined their name resting on the lovely tongue of Mishal Husain. And few in the SDLP […]

As I type this it’s a grey day out there. A soft rain is falling (unlike Bob Dylan’s famous Hard Rain) and things generally are getting a slow but cumulative drenching. It’s the kind of day where you might be tempted to stay indoors  and read a book or watch the telly or look through summer […]

    ‘’A passionate attachment of one nation for another is the most baneful foe of Republican government.’’ – George Washington  The thrust of this article is, as the title suggests, an examination of why abstentionism is the only respectable approach for Irish MPs to take, but also explores the underlying reasons why. What forces […]

  The trickle of disapproval in the Main Stream Media for Social Media has been gathering pace, apace, and has now surged to a tsunami of purgation. In a word or two: -Ban ‘em ! Ban, is right. Indeed, if the boot were on the other foot it might well be, erm, B.A.N.: -Barbiturates. -Amphetamines. […]