Jude Collins

AS May turns to June, the Twelfth of July looms. The BBC has stopped giving live coverage to the marches, but GB News has said it’s interested. This of course has nothing to do with how right-wing GB News is. Or have I got that wrong? Donna Traynor, the former BBC news reader, was given […]

                  John Alderdice, Former leader of the Alliance Party in NEI came out with quite the statement earlier this week (for an Alliance man) – “The English public’s attitude to Northern Ireland has changed profoundly over the past quarter of a century and there is now no […]

    They’re still at it. – trying to beat up (politically) Michelle O’Neill, because she said that there was no choice but violence for some republicans. Was she right? And how could she be, if there were people like John Hume and many SDLP people who chose to reject violence? Maybe it came down […]

      The so-called “Irish Free State” was not established by an Irish electorate but by a rump of Dail Eireann at the dictation of a British Viceroy (a Catholic, as acceptable to Cardinal Logue as “a Catholic Hangman”)   Neither the establishment of the Republic nor its antithesis “Free State”  can be labelled […]

Dear Sir,   In 1962 the US Embassy in Dublin contained armed US Marines.   The Gardai were so protective of the Embassy that they brutally manhandled peaceful protestors.   The context was the Soviet installation in Cuba of nuclear weapons at the invitation of the Cuban Government and the responding invocation by the US […]

    Six months ago the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom I had thought the most trustworthy of European leaders, revealed that she had sponsored the Minsk Agreements in 2014 to deceive President Putin and to enable the Ukraine Regime, whose President had been handpicked by Victoria Nuland, US Under-Secretary of State during the […]

  This is an interesting comment from an interesting website. Essentially, Patreon believes that Mary Lou and Mark Carruthers have got it wrong in using the local elections and/or the assembly elections as the yardstick to measure the appetite for a border poll. As he sees it, people vote for parties in these circumstances for […]

                    In the late Spring of 1916, my uncle Jack, six weeks shy of his 17th birthday was wounded by shellfire while serving with the world’s greatest terrorist force.   It was either the 31st May or the 1st June.   The shell was fired by […]

In recent years, the number of suicides have increased alarmingly. What drives people to this awful step – is it poverty? Personal relationships? Maybe a mixture.   In politics, does the SDLP play an important role. If they went out of existence, would that be good news for Sinn Féin?  Maybe think about that one […]

The latest local election seems to have dislodged something – it’s hard to say just what it is, other than a queasy feeling in the stomach of some unionist politicians. Having had their favourite nightmare – a Sinn Féin First Minister – become reality, the shift in the political wind has been emphatically reinforced by […]