Month: October 2023

Dissident Writer Knut Hamsun and the Unquiet Grave

PLEASE HELP AS WE ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON READERS DONATIONS keyboardcosmetics@gmail.com MICHAEL WALSH DISSIDENT HISTORIAN: The Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859 – 1952) was deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1920.  A handsome and debonair gentleman, quite unlike most people’s idea of a poet and […]

Palestine supporters celebrate throughout the world

British Jews and many across Europe are being targeted by anti-Israeli attacks as outraged protestors show their solidarity with the freedom fighters Hezbollah and Hamas and in general the people of Israel Occupied Palestine. London police have announced they will increase their presence on the streets to protect […]

MUSICAL NOTES: Edith Piaf (1915 – 1963)

MICHAEL WALSH CLASSICAL MUSIC CORRESPONDENT: She was internationally famous for her song Non, je ne regrette rien (No Regrets). When she sang it, accompanied only by a pianist, Edith’s body language and expression screamed the opposite. Edith Piaf, otherwise known as the Little Sparrow, was constantly embittered by […]