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 pandemic doesn’t seem to have affected the global demand for weapons, according to a new report, which reveals the defence industry’s top 100 companies made $531 billion in 2020, which is 1.3% more than in the previous year.
Ironically, soldier foes killing each other on the Western Front during The Great War (1914-1918) brought to the world a far more eloquent message of peace and goodwill than could any bible-thumping priest berating his sleepy congregation.
A suicide note left by a man in Germany who killed his wife and three children before taking his own life, reveals the harrowing news that he feared he’d be arrested and his children taken away over a falsified Covid-19 vaccination certificate, investigators say.
Ukraine’s defence minister has raised the spectre of one of the European Union’s major concerns, large scale migration, amid American lurid and unproven claims that Russia is planning an invasion of his country.
Tens of thousands of furious demonstrators marched through the streets of Austria’s capital, Vienna, protesting against Covid-19 restrictions and the nationwide vaccination mandate.
An anti-trans piss-taking parody book is topping Amazon’s LGBTQ+ best-seller list. A parody children’s book that ridicules transgenderism with a story about a boy who wants to become a walrus unexpectedly became the number-one best-selling Amazon book in the LGBTQ+ category this week.
Tens of thousands of outraged and rebellious people marched through the streets of Belgium’s capital Brussels on Sunday, protesting new repression. Using a virus with a 99.97% survival rate as a Press swinging cudgel the Brussels regime has pushed the people too far.
A Greek Orthodox cleric was recorded on video shouting ‘Pope, you are a heretic!’ as Pope Francis entered a meeting with Greek Orthodox leaders. The dragon-slaying cleric was dragged away by security operatives.
SPAIN’S national bank says the country faces horrific losses because of shortage and supply issues that the country is currently facing. The Bank of Spain has warned that the crisis will cost the nation as much as £11.5billion (€13.5billion). The country’s most affected sector will be the automobile industry, it said.
I recall seeing a biker’s tee-shirt with the caption: ‘Hitler has been found in Argentina. He is coming back but this time he isn’t going to play the nice guy.’
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