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.
27 people have been killed in a stampede over the border between a former Spanish colony and a tiny enclave: More than two dozen migrants have died in a stampede while trying to cross into the Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco, that country’s Association for Human Rights (AMDH) announced on Friday evening.
GREAT EUROPEANS: Remains of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance have been discovered near the South Pole. The wreck of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance ship has been found, 106 years after it sank east of Antarctica trying to reach the pole.
Throughout Ukraine, draft notices are being handed to people in the streets, eateries, and beaches amid the EU/US provoked war on Russia. A large-scale manhunt for conscripts is underway across Ukraine amid the military conflict with Russia, a source within Kyiv’s military has told RT Russian. Ukraine is said to be unscrupulous about those being recruited and the means of delivering draft notices to them.
Any further sanctions on Moscow would only hurt the EU economy without significantly impacting Russia, a senior aide to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Reuters on Thursday. Brussels should stop targeting Moscow with new restrictions and focus on alternative means of achieving peace in Ukraine, such as negotiations, Balazs Orbán said.
Twenty per cent of babies born in France in 2021 were given a Muslim name, according to a new analysis of data released from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. The French civil registry, a list published since 1900 of all the first names of children born in France, is reviewed by the Fdesouche news outlet every year.
Apart from Hungary, Finland could be the first country that has figured out how to fix stupid. Citizens of Finland are beginning to realize that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is deceiving everyone in the West all the time. Over two-thirds of the world refuse to sanction Russia. Stateman and former Italian president Silvio Berlusconi says, ‘The West isolated Russia whilst the world isolates the West.’
It could take years for the UK to replace weapons that it has funnelled to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Tony Radakin, has admitted. He made the remarks on Wednesday as he spoke before a parliamentary committee.
As many as 500 Ukrainian troops from a single brigade were killed in the city of Nikolaev, the Russian defence ministry reveals. Russian strikes on a shipbuilding plant in the Ukrainian port of Nikolaev killed as many as 500 troops on Tuesday, the Russian defence ministry claimed during a daily press briefing on Wednesday.
What is certain to be a lottery win for anti-Western terrorists is likely to present itself as karma when NATO-supplied weapons picked up for a song are used against the unfortunate populations of Europe. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated on June 9 that ‘arms shipment to Ukraine will lead to the emergence of an arms black market, especially in Western Europe.’
The hapless Brussels-led European Union is facing yet another major foreign policy backfiring catastrophe. Algeria, which is a major exporter of fossil fuels to Europe like Russia, is turning against the European Union. The government in Algeria, supported by President Tebboune, has decided not to renew a key partnership treaty with the pro-Washington Spanish regime. The major North African trading partner has frozen trade relations with Europe. It gets worse: the North African country could cut natural gas supplies to Spain, a move that could send already rising gas prices and inflation even higher for Europeans reeling from sticker shock.
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