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.
Elton John says it for many people: ‘I regard all pop music as irrelevant in the sense that people in 200 years won’t be listening to what is being written and played today. I think they will be listening to Beethoven.’ The music we leave for the enjoyment […]
Hundreds of thousands of people turned the streets of central London into a sea of solidarity with Palestine. The national march for Palestine—of at least 800,000 people in London on Saturday made even the massive protests of the last month seem small. WE PUBLISH WHAT WESTERN MEDIA REFUSES TO COVER […]
MICHAEL WALSH AMERICAN FREE PRESS: Russian President Vladimir Putin came straight to the point: “95 per cent of world terrorist attacks are made by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA does not work on behalf of the American people or act in their interests. The CIA is a […]
Many singers bring to mind the pathos of times past or a period of turbulence. Gracie Fields symbolised the austere but homeliness of a pre-war Britain far removed from what it has since become. Gracie lost her citizenship when, during the war in which Italy was at war […]
“My Dearest Kathleen, this is the last letter before I cross over the border into Spain. I will post it in the border town and then I will be on Spanish territory. This is a terribly long journey we are on now, about 15 hours.” There is a […]
‘History will not look kindly’ on leaders who needlessly sacrifice their troops. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky must avoid needlessly sending young Ukrainians to be slaughtered on the battlefield with Russia, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said. His comments come amid Kiev’s failed counteroffensive, which Moscow claims has already […]
The long-suffering Germans know that a pig wearing lipstick is still a pig: Green foreign ministry under Annalena Baerbock spent over €99,000 ($93,00) trying in vain to make herself less plain. If you add her constant scowls many would say a futile attempt to make herself less ugly. […]
Ennio Morricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered […]
Many of us reel in horror when we discover the appalling atrocities and acts of cruelty committed by the Bolsheviks. Fast forward to today. We are aghast at the excesses of the Western-backed Israeli Defence Forces against the native populations. Few realize that the Bolsheviks and the Israeli […]
Two great football teams, two awesome cathedrals and don’t forget two world-class orchestras. Born 183 years ago the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the daddy of all orchestras save one. In fact, the orchestra is one of only two that carries the prefix ‘royal’. In fact, 1840 was […]
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