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.
In pre-Hitler’s Germany, as in the Western democracies then and today, eyewatering bank charges of 40 per cent on EVERYTHING purchased by local authorities, government departments and ordinary family purchases were starving the nation.
Ukraine must secure Washington’s approval to hit targets deep inside Russia with US-supplied weapons. The first such permission was granted in November 2024 under President Joe Biden, shortly after Trump won that year’s election.
Earlier this month in London, the ’Unite the Kingdom’ rally was held by right-wing Britons dissatisfied with their current government. While the Metropolitan Police contend that around 110,000 to 150,000 were in attendance, the event’s organizers have claimed that as many as three million were there.
‘We see this as nothing more than a dangerous staging designed to prepare European public opinion for a war it does not want and which is instead being maliciously fueled by a network that thrives on hoaxes, manipulations and lies,’ Toscano said.
Whatever one’s views on Vladimir Putin, the Russian President is by any account a remarkable man. His life and career can only be described as extraordinary.
‘He, and the ever-increasing legions who worked with him, certainly showed at this time, in their patriotic ardour and love of country, that there was nothing that they would not dare, no sacrifice of life, limb or liberty that they would not make themselves or inflict upon their opponents.’ – Winston Churchill. Francis Nielson. ‘The Makers of War’ p.101.
Swiss news outlet Bluewin.ch noted these job losses would head into the tens of thousands. This announcement comes after the company already cut 10,000 jobs. Earlier this year, Poland also saw many jobs lost at a Bosch brake factory.
Uniforms and tunics are an essential part of working life. Our attitudes toward other people mirror their attire. A very ordinary person you wouldn’t look twice at in the street creates a favorable impression when in overalls, uniform or a nurse’s tunic.
“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”
the sooner the patient is taken to the hospital, the higher the chance that doctors will be able to restore blood flow to brain tissue or identify and eliminate the cause of the intracerebral haemorrhage before critical changes occur.
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