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.
Reminiscent of the Soviet Bloc States vs. the Citizens preceding the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the 1980s, similar horrifying scenes are occurring throughout much of Western Europe as citizens protest against the effect of sanctions. Demonstrations for better wages in France elicited a harsh response from law enforcement.
Europe on the sidelines of a Russian – NATO conflict has massively misjudged NATO as its sole deterrent in the event of the conflict spreading beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Of the hundreds of epic escape stories that occurred during World War II, it is the banalest like The Great Escape that is turned into movies. It appears that only two, As Far as my Feet will Carry me and The One That Got Away (there were many) were made into movies.
Scientists at Boston University claim to have created a new variant of Covid-19 with an 80% mortality rate, by combining the highly-transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus with the original Wuhan strain. The lab team behind the mutant variant was accused of ‘playing with fire.’
Q: In Britain, non-whites are a small minority. Of these, an even smaller minority have a partner of another race. However, on British TV the vast majority of TV ads that use actual actors, feature mixed-race couples, of all age groups, it’s as if the advertising media is pushing some agenda known only to them. In years past advertisers aimed their ads at their core customers but if your core customers are mixed-race couples, you are truly only aiming at a tiny niche market. It’s so obvious now all viewers are beginning to comment and are asking WHY?
On its release, Stevie Spielberg’s Band of Brothers movie came under fire and received numerous direct hits fired by credible critics. Still living British World War Two veterans and military historians supported the objections. Many of the lurid claims made in the movie were denounced as ‘a fantasy, a total travesty from beginning to end, a pack of lies and a vainglorious re-writing of history.’
The number of ‘irregular entries’ into the bloc has soared, reaching levels not seen since 2016. The number of irregular crossings into the EU grew sharply in the first nine months of 2022 compared to the previous year, the bloc’s border agency Frontex said Thursday.
A controversial TV show will offer its audience a chance to destroy Adolf Hitler’s paintings British Channel 4 confirmed on Friday. According to a Channel 4 spokesperson, the Jimmy Carr Destroys Art debate will represent ‘a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of the limits of free expression in art’ as it will allow the selected and goaded public in a studio to decide on the fate of several pieces.
No names no pack drill but an acquaintance volunteered to transport pro-National Socialist literature into Allied-Occupied Germany. My friend either had too much backbone or too little awareness of the penalties for such ‘crimes against the state’.
Ukraine held talks with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on a plan to destroy the Crimean Bridge at the Madrid NATO summit in June, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said.
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