Month: October 2023

WHEN THE STAR IS THE GUITAR

MICHAEL WALSH MUSIC CORRESPONDENT: Musically nothing evokes the Spanish experience as does Richard Harvey’s melody Concerto Antico; especially when it is played by John Williams, the internationally acclaimed guitarist. The sincerest form of flattery being imitation, this guitar concerto is adorned in a rich filigree of Spanish lace. […]

Some of the lucky ones surrendered and stayed alive

Kyiv has achieved nothing and Russian troops have now taken the initiative, a top diplomat says: The four-month ’counteroffensive’ by Ukrainian forces has failed to reach any of its objectives, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, told the Security Council on Friday. ‘For several days now, Russian […]

Music and Opera is Strictly for Adults

MICHAEL WALSH MUSIC CORRESPONDENT: If X-rated entertainment is music to your ears, then orchestral music may be just what you are looking for. Enthusiasts of soaps would eat their hearts out if they knew what we classical fans have been enjoying for the last few hundred years. If […]

There Goes Your Illusions of Free Speech

MICHAEL WALSH IS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR THE AMERICAN FREE PRESS: What lies behind the European Union’s increasing control of users’ content on social media? The issue is a radical shift that supersedes the tech giants’ own content moderating (and censorship) control. The new Digital Services Act (DSA) claims […]

Elon Musk Caves to Israeli and EU Pressure

X formerly Twitter yields to EU demand to remove pro-Hamas posts after commissioner threatens ban for entire platform. X says it removed “tens of thousands” of Hamas-related posts. The platform, however, is notorious for removing pro-truth commentators. Facebook, which is Jewish-owned and controlled rigorously polices its content removing […]

Oh, for the simple life

MICHAEL WALSH EX-MARINER: The U.S. space agency NASA once spent millions developing a pen that would write upside down or in a non-atmosphere environment. The Russians replied; ‘we use a pencil.’ A friend once boasted that if you pressed a little button on his new watch the hands […]

R.I.P. HERE LIES AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS

OP-ED Michael Walsh: The end of World War II coincided with the bouncing baby birth of a thriving American middle class. Most Western Europeans born after the Second World War were weaned on the canned products of the American entertainment industry. Many Europeans aspired to match American living […]