Jude Collins

Over the weekend and today, there are huge demonstrations in Israel, calling for the return of the Israeli hostages, and calling on Netenyahu to get them back or he’s in serious trouble. Is that good news? Florida is ahead of every other state in the US when it comes to banning books in schools. Is […]

    For over a century Russia has not posed a threat to Western countries nor to those  countries’ legitimate interests and it does not do so now.   It is the largest country on our planet blessed with natural resources and with an educated skilled population which can put them to good use for themselves […]

     The weekly IRISH POST, published in London since 1970 describes itself as The Voice of The Irish in Britain. It’s a fair claim and one of the voices featured was mine, from 1974 on. My, how the last half-century has flown! Tempus Fugit, D**n it!   I count the current Editor, Mal Rogers, as a personal […]

Another programme on TV has revealed further detail about the horrors that occurred in Mother and Baby homes. Is it reasonable to say that a Church which contains such ghastly hypocrisy encourages people to leave it?   Colum Eastwood has stepped down as SDLP leader. Will Claire Hanna succeed him? And if she does, will […]

    Colum Eastwood has resigned his post as leader of the SDLP.  Will he continue as an MP in Westminster? Not clear. Certainly Julian Smith, former British pro-consul in this region, hopes he will . Smith  has responded to his stepping down and lathered Colum in compliments, ending with a stirring  ‘Ar aghaidh!” (Forward!) […]

  I was at Hornsey Library yesterday . When I worked there it had thousands of ancient periodicals which would fetch millions if sold individually but they have been thrown out as junk.   A copy of the Illustrated London News showed dozens of photos of Irish, some of whom jumped on top of the […]

I know you don’t want to be labelled a Lundy, but it makes sense to take the risk. You know you are unionists, but every day that passes where you bar the door and shout “No surrender!” from inside is not going to play well, with others and for yourselves. There are a dozen reasons […]

  When the Press Council upheld my complaint  against THE TIMES in February 1982 THE TIMES published their adjudication. But not a single British paper, GUARDIAN, MORNING STAR representing Liberal nor Communist tendencies did so, nor did  the BBC.   Turning on the TV that evening (18/2/1982) I witnessed the Editor of THE TIMES being […]

Gordon Lyons (DUP) is Minister for Sport and Communities, and while he has visited all sorts of sports and games, he hasn’t as yet got round to attending a GAA game  – including Armagh’s All-Ireland victory. Is Gordon’s keeping-at-arm’s- length approach something that unionism approved of? And is it wise? Captain Robert Nairac was a […]

    When Scott Ritter was searching in Iraq on behalf of the United States and reporting that he had no evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Dr. David Kelly was performing the exact same task for Britain and reporting the same result.   When the most powerful American media, on behalf […]