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.
How often we relax to the quintessential melodies of Spain’s Isaac Albéniz (1860 – 1909). His Rapsodia Espanola, Sevilla and Granada, based on Catalan folk songs, are perhaps the better-known of his compositions. These exquisite heartrending melodies evoke the Spanish dream more than could any Goya painting but what of the man behind the music?
If it is confirmed that the doyens of American mainstream media have received money to spin published news, US democracy will be ‘in the dustbin of history,’ says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Some ‘madmen’ believe Russia could be defeated, but this could trigger the end of the world, Patriarch Kirill has said.
Any attempts to destroy Russia could spell disaster for the entire world, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, warned on Thursday.
A popular truism is that you are known by the company you keep’. I pondered this when walking with my companion we attracted pitying glances. Whilst I was reasonably attired my companion looked like a down and out. Wearing ill-fitting jeans and a jumper that had seen better days my friend was also in desperate need of a shave and haircut.
For the second time, the Hungarian government wants the names of four Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin removed from the EU sanctions list. Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU Andrzej Sados called such actions ‘incomprehensible and shameful.’ Moreover, now that the tenth package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus is being actively discussed in the EU, Viktor Orbán is preparing the ground for countering them, writes Wirtualna Polska.
In the office of Ukrainian President Zelensky, the murder of a Ukrainian negotiator Denis Kireev was explained by an error made in the work of the special services. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, confessed that Denis Kireev, a participant in Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, was not in fact an agent of Russia. According to him, the murder of the banker on March 5, 2022 is due to errors in the work of law enforcement agencies.
The Woke Mob and Environment fanatics demand we purchase, lease and rent electric and hybrid cars in our home garages which may be an integral part of our homes.
Apart from traditional festive church services, Russians also have a tradition of Epiphany dips, when people cut cross-shaped holes in the ice of water bodies, the churchmen bless the water, and on the eve of the Epiphany, after going to a church, people dip thrice into the freezing water, crossing themselves before each dip.
With the US federal government’s stock of vaccines for residents running out, Moderna now plans to raise the cost of its vaccine from $26 to up to $130 in a decision that understandably has Americans being pissed on.
Nothing to do with covid, and everything to do with control just as in the Soviet Union’s 423 labour colonies known as the Gulag archipelago. The British city of Oxford is slated to become the first 15-minute city that supposedly makes services accessible to residents within 15 minutes of their homes.
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