Jude Collins

For the British government, the damage is less about direct implication and more about proximity. Power, it turns out, travels in tight circles: financiers, ministers, royalty, philanthropists — all clinking glasses at the same charity galas. When one guest is revealed to have been running a global abuse ring, everyone else suddenly develops selective amnesia. […]

Prince William has touched down in Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of sweeping deserts, gleaming skyscrapers and, as the world was once grimly reminded, a troubling record when it comes to dissenting journalists. Diplomacy, like air miles, must be collected wherever available. There is something faintly surreal about a modern British prince touring a state synonymous […]

How much do I detest Peter Mandelson? Let me count the ways.A man whose best pal is Jeremy Epstein, who sucked up to Trump,  who helped create ‘New Labour’ (blesses self huriedly) – anyone of those three are enough to make the belly heave and the mouth yell for a bucket. However, we judge (or […]

    I never thought I would live to see a fascist government in the USA but that has happened with the arrival of DJ Trump and his band of right wing Zionists in the White House. I suppose I should not have been so naïve. I had innocently thought that the US was the […]

  I was listening to Nolan this morning, and I caught a conversation between Jim  Wells and a normal man. Jim was for sticking up for good old  sporty with ‘Man of the match’ or ‘Woman of the match’ , rather than any of this woke nonsense. Right, Jim. What we have we hold. Once […]

    SENATOR George Mitchell, late of this parish, has been among those name found in the Epstein files. A US-Ireland postgraduate scholarship scheme has hastily removed his name from their award. Were they right to erase him?   The South/RoI has been drenched in floods, with County Wexford reporting people whose livelihood has been […]

I had an interesting conversation with a friend recently. We were talking about the Tesla car, and I was telling him about a test drive I had in one and what stunning technology it had. He said that personally, to add to Elon Musk’s billions would be, for him, a  bridge too far. I understand […]

  Minnesota Flame.By Randalk Stephen Hall.For Renee Goode and Alex Pretti.Plus a song, THE YELLOW DOORListen to The Yellow Door by Randall Stephen Hall on #SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.com/randall-stephen-hall/the-yellow-door-1?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=ba2757e4dd4b44d6a431f3db85531cb0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Minnesota Flame. I have no wordsFor the death of democracy.I have no wordsFor fear on the streets.I have no wordsFor the death of two democratsI have no bandageFor the […]

Is this latest shooting – execution? – in Minneapolis  by ICE agents  the last straw? Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz  and former presidents  Obama and Clinton have all denounced the obvious shooting dead of a protestor. Will it make any difference?   And has the blocking of Andy Burnham – obviously by Keir Starmer and […]