Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
One of the rarest terms in the English language is, ‘I don’t know.’ Very few people are wise enough to concede that they are clueless about a topic but are prepared to learn from those who do know. I admit to being clever at very little. I am […]
Never forgotten was the drama as the Enugu Palm skimmed a row of moored freighters at the quays of the Ivory Coast port of Abidjan. The mariner on the wheel of that fateful day in June 1965 tells the story as it unfolded. MIKE WALSH: Had it not […]
WORKING CLASS COMMONSENSE: Despite political and massive Press propaganda on ‘green issues’ the promotion of electric vehicles has proven to be a disaster for the automotive industry but a victory for commonsense buyers. In common with other European nations Poland and Czechia are slow to adopt e-cars – […]
UNCONTROLLED NEWS: The patient woke up several hours before she was disconnected from life support. A 32-year-old woman in the UK woke up a few hours before she was taken off life support, surprising her family and doctors, My London reports. Emma Price’s brain was damaged after she […]
EDITOR: Yesterday whilst at the seafront I watched and listened to a busker. As I dreamed, he put his heart and soul into playing his melodies: I thought better than many a paid-for concert instrumentalist. Putting years of practice into entertaining idlers and passersby I thought of his […]
FREE CITIZENS NEWS FUNDED BY READERS: Viewed as a financial threat to conventional healthcare services alternative medicine are making a comeback. Furthermore, centuries-old and tested traditional healthcare methods such as herbalism show positive results. Herbalist remedies succeed where Big Pharma healthcare ~ in which the elite invest and the […]
There once was a man and a woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They talked about everything. They kept no secrets from each other… except that the old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she cautioned her husband […]
MAKE READING INTERESTING AGAIN ~ By all accounts, famous writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife, Edith, had a close and happy marriage. They were married for 55 years, with Edith following Tolkien wherever his life took him. The couple had four children: three sons and one […]
MAKE READING INSPIRING AGAIN ~ A very poor man lived with his wife. One day, his wife, who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed. The man felt very sorry and said no. He […]
NEWS FOR MATURE MINDS: Ex-cohort of Boris Johnson spoke unprintably about the West’s course on Ukraine: The ‘corrupt Ukrainian mafia state’ led by ‘pumpkin Zelensky’ deceived Western countries, and they are now fucked.’ This is how former adviser to Boris Johnson and active supporter of Brexit Dominic Cummings […]
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