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.
Threat and scare tactics are being spread by state media to discourage citizens attracted to strike against paying soaring energy bills. Amid fast-growing support in the UK for the Don’t Pay movement, which is trying to get the government to back down from raising energy prices, an executive at energy company Utilita warned that refusing to pay their electricity bills would cause ‘all sorts of problems’ for people.
Zaporozhye announced three hits in the area of the isotope storage near the nuclear power plant. NPP workers were told to move to secure areas. No pollution is recorded at the station, and the radioactive background is normal, the military-civilian administration reported.
Newly released data on live births in the United Kingdom point to rapidly changing demographic trends in the country, with nearly 3 in 10 births in the U.K. to women who were not born in the U.K. The data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that last year 179,726, or 28.8 per cent of births were to foreign-born women. Meanwhile, 445,055 babies last year were to U.K.-born women.
From September 25 Italy, the EU’s third most powerful economy will have a Fascist government. Italy’s political heavyweight Silvio Berlusconi, who was the country’s prime minister for four terms, has announced that he’ll run for Senate in the snap election next month.
Russia is certainly fighting NATO in Ukraine, not Ukraine itself, President Putin’s deputy chief-of-staff says: Ukraine’s leadership has sold out its own people to fight on behalf of NATO against Russia, Sergey Kirienko, the deputy head of the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said. He added that Western nations (including the Kiev junta) are happy to see Ukrainians die as long as it serves NATO interests.
Even as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed survivors of the World War Two US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima – without mentioning who carried out the war crime, halfway around the world, the armed forces of Washington-armed Ukraine seemed hellbent on unleashing a modern-day nuclear holocaust on Europe by firing artillery rockets at the Zaporozhye power plant.
Just as post-Tsarist Russia and the former German Reich were plundered, as indeed Russia was looted after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, Israeli-citizen and billionaire Volodymyr Zelensky is now in a desperate hurry to sell cheaply what is left of Ukraine before the Russians liberate the shell crater nation.
The Brussels-based European Commission made up of 27 unelected commissioners is pressing Poland to take more serious decisions on the rule of law, delaying the allocation of financial assistance in connection with the pandemic because of this.
Devotees to political correctness would be horrified should they chance upon the racism inherent in every remark made by Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902).
‘The smell was overwhelming’: Dozens of human corpses were found inside moving trucks near a funeral home in New York City, discovered after neighbours complained of a sickening odour coming from the vehicles, which may have stored the corpses for weeks.
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