Many of the woes suffered by the Western nations can be attributed to the woeful ignorance of the general population – especially those born after 1980.

According to a HuffPost/YouGov poll asking 1,000 U.S. adults about their reading habits, 41 per cent of respondents had not read a fiction book in the past year; 42 per cent had not read a nonfiction book. The two groups overlapped, with 28 per cent of respondents reading no books at all in the past year.

When we then remember that former US President Richard Nixon said, ‘People never believe anything until they see it on television’ it explains why democracy is in crisis.

Anyway, EUROPE RENAISSANCE is to the rescue. Michael Walsh, like most of his post-war generation, spent more time with his head in books than today’s generation spend with their heads buried in ‘dumbing down phones.

The outcome is that these days he rarely if ever debates history, travel, current affairs, the Russian Revolution, World War II, or Adolf Hitler.

‘Frankly,’ he smiles, ‘I may as well slip into the local farmer’s sheep pen and discuss such topics with the sheep: they would be as uncomprehending.’

The author of over 70 book titles and hundreds of media columns he adds: ‘I haven’t watched a TV programme since the 1980s and absence has made the heart grow fonder – of real choice.

‘I am no zealot but I believe that the suffrage – the right to vote should be based on passing a basic knowledge test. This would include especially genuine national and international history. It is ignorance in such matters that leads to history repeating itself.

Britain and Ireland’s most prolific (and censored) multi-topic historian and book writer is re-publishing his books. As eBooks or conventional popular titles are again online print-on-demand self-publishing available.

Rome wasn’t built in a day but already over twenty titles are available with more being added each week. Our booksellers are international, world-class, professional, and on par with Amazon.

When you purchase a Mike (Michael) Walsh book you spend less than the price of a theatre ticket but ‘it is the unique show that can be enjoyed over and over again ~ passed on to others’ free of charge forever.