Jude Collins

Are you shocked by President Trump’s actions over Venezuela in recent weeks?  He has deployed a huge military arsenal in the Caribbean Sea. This has involved bombers, fighters, drones, patrol planes and support aircraft.  It has targeted and killed dozens of people on board boats in the area, claiming that they were carrying drugs.He has […]

Have you heard about the killing of some innocent people at Bondi Beach? If you haven’t, you might want to check out that you’re not living at the bottom of a very deep well.   These were  15 innocent Jewish people, celebrating one of their major feasts. With the focus on that shooting, the loss […]

  Bondi Beach, normally a pleasure centre, became a bloodbath strip as at least fifteen people, many of them Jewish, were murdered by two gunmen. Alan Shatter and Netanyahu have both pointed the finger at those who have criticised Israel. Are they right? In Ards and North Down Council, Joe Boyle of the SDLP, the […]

It warms the heart, makes your toes curl up in delight when you hear of a dignified and respectful display of identity. We had this on the Ormeau Road in 2018. Under a ‘protocol’ (EH?) involving unionist parties like the DUP and PUP, plus some local loyalists, there was an agreement that union flags and […]

I expect you’re still glowing with satisfaction over the recent Kenova report, which had things to say about Stakeknife, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and the Glenanne gang. In the  face of some  robust criticism, we had the refusal of authorities to name Stakeknife as Freddie Scappaticci. Like, as if we didn’t know. George Bernard Shaw once […]

Richard Boyd-Barrett got a rough ride on RTE radio the other day. He was questioned (to use that term loosely) as to why he and Paul Murphy of the People Before Profit  stood when Zelensky of Ukraine entered the Dail but did not join the applause for the miniature tiger of Ukraine.   RBB replied that […]

Before we have a quick look at Herzog Park, here are a few relevant matters Is a citizen of Israel the same thing as a Jew? No. Are non-Israeli Jews supporters of Israel? Yes, in the main they are. But there are a considerable number of Jews worldwide who feel shamed by the bloody actions […]

A few days back, Carl Duffy wrote a guest blog on this site called ‘How to Trigger Claire Hanna”.It provoked quite a bit of interest and I’m sure there were people who were not pleased to see such an unfavourable depiction, a politician I have in the past admired. Why was their such interest in […]