It’s amazing the things people know. I was listening to the radio this morning and Marian Finucane was on RTÉ asking some reporter on the spot if Colonel Gaddafi’s “42-year reign of terror’ was definitely about to end. How did she know that, I wonder? Maybe Marian is right, and from the moment he took […]
Author Jude Collins
Marian and the colonel
It’s amazing the things people know. I was listening to the radio this morning and Marian Finucane was on RTÉ asking some reporter on the spot if Colonel Gaddafi’s “42-year reign of terror’ was definitely about to end. How did she know that, I wonder? Maybe Marian is right, and from the moment he took […]
QE2’s visit to Ireland – a huge tourism boost, right? Um, wrong.
George Orwell was very good on memory and politics. In both Animal Farm and 1984, he shows how those ruling had a way of saying something and then, when events turned out otherwise, saying something different and/or denying they’d said the original thing. They did it so convincingly, the animals/people ended up wondering if they’d […]
QE2’s visit to Ireland – a huge tourism boost, right? Um, wrong.
George Orwell was very good on memory and politics. In both Animal Farm and 1984, he shows how those ruling had a way of saying something and then, when events turned out otherwise, saying something different and/or denying they’d said the original thing. They did it so convincingly, the animals/people ended up wondering if they’d […]
Do buildings talk?
Do buildings talk? I was at Milan Central Railway Station last week and it seemed to me it didn’t so much talk as shout. And while it was shouting, it gripped me by my shirt-front and gave me a good shake to show who was boss. Its frontage is grey and muscular, packed with […]
Do buildings talk?
Do buildings talk? I was at Milan Central Railway Station last week and it seemed to me it didn’t so much talk as shout. And while it was shouting, it gripped me by my shirt-front and gave me a good shake to show who was boss. Its frontage is grey and muscular, packed with […]
Michael Gove: a man it’s hard not to hit
Every time I see a picture of Michael Gove, I want to punch it/him. Yes I know, violence doesn’t solve problems, we must try to seek a peaceful resolution of our differences, blahblahblah, but I still want to punch the little shit. At the same time, he has raised a really important issue in British […]
Michael Gove: a man it’s hard not to hit
Every time I see a picture of Michael Gove, I want to punch it/him. Yes I know, violence doesn’t solve problems, we must try to seek a peaceful resolution of our differences, blahblahblah, but I still want to punch the little shit. At the same time, he has raised a really important issue in British […]
It’s my parade and I’ll play what I want to
There’s a touch of the poet about the Rev Mervyn Gibson, I think. Poets are the misers of words: they use them sparingly, and when they do, they make them work really hard, often doing two things at once. So too with the Reverend Mervyn Gibson. He’s declared that the Parades Commission ruling that an […]
It’s my parade and I’ll play what I want to
There’s a touch of the poet about the Rev Mervyn Gibson, I think. Poets are the misers of words: they use them sparingly, and when they do, they make them work really hard, often doing two things at once. So too with the Reverend Mervyn Gibson. He’s declared that the Parades Commission ruling that an […]