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.
The hapless leadership of Britain’s Conservative Party is becoming stronger in the opinion that Boris Johnson should step down from his post as soon as possible. The Tories who themselves are corrupt to the core are so afraid of a possible defeat in the upcoming elections due to the scandals surrounding the prime minister that it does not want to wait until he decides on his successor, reports The Guardian.
Residents of the Champ de Mars district in Paris are outraged by the dirt, illegal trade and rampant crime in the immediate vicinity of the Eiffel Tower, according to Le Figaro. According to the publication, the quarter in the very centre of the city has become an unsafe territory for the local population and tourists. District 7 Mayor Rashida Dati whose parents are North African is asking Mayor Anna Hidalgo, a Spanish woman, to install a fence around the Champ de Mars to close the area at night and thus fight illegal trade.
WASHINGTON, April 24 – RIA Novosti. The current US administration is destroying the country, having come to power as a result of fraudulent elections, the confusion of President Joe Biden will lead the country to hell, said former head of the White House Donald Trump.
The collateral damage of the West’s economic war with their trade rival, for almost two months they have been held captive in French ports. In Saint-Malo, Marseille and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Russian cargo ships carrying cars or chemicals were stuck because their owners allegedly fell under sanctions imposed by Washington and Brussels against Russia.
Doomed to failure and even disaster, US intelligence agencies could begin to develop a plan for the flight of the Ukrainian political elite against the backdrop of a Russian special operation, said a former CIA officer who publishes in the media under the nickname Frumentarius. His words are reported by 19FortyFive.
Ukrainian and British intelligence services are preparing a provocation in Lysychansk to report ‘Russian atrocities.’ This was stated by the head of the National Defense Control Centre Mikhail Mizintsev.
The descent of the flame in Kuvuklia on Great Saturday on the eve of Easter symbolizes the light of the Resurrection of Christ, believers consider it a shrine. The Holy Fire descended on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Channel One, Russia-1, NTV and Spas TV channels are broadcasting live from the temple.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa penned a column published by the Le Monde daily newspaper in France just hours after the televised debate between presidential contenders Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in which they called on the French people to vote for Emmanuel Macron, who they label the ‘democratic candidate,’ in Sunday’s second-round election.
On March 29th the ‘Silent No More’ movement was officially born in New Zealand. It was an event that was created out of a collective vision and a collective effort of numerous passionate New Zealanders from around the country who all had a shared desire and need to come together to tell their story and to just be heard. People from right across the country gathered in front of parliament in a memorial service grieving together, to tell their stories together, and to deliver their petition with 12,000 signatures gathered in just 5 days to parliament.
The Freedom House think tank, funded by billionaire oligarch George Soros and the U.S. State Department, is clearly furious about Viktor Orbán’s landslide democratic victory.
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