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 Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, made the decision to not use a sword while bestowing knighthood this year. For 922 years, since the Order’s foundation, a sword has always been used during the official ceremony. Now, change is coming.
The European’s Union’s 27 unelected (and unelectable) Commissioners dubbed ‘Commissars’ have been forced into a humiliating volte-face by backtracking on the absurd initiative to Cancel Christmas, Father Christmas and much else of tradition.
Some UK supermarkets have said they will not be enforcing new face mask rules brought back in after concerns about the Omicron coronavirus variant. Supermarket chain Iceland told the BBC its staff would not ask customers to wear masks to stop them from facing abuse.
The European Commission wants to erase all references to Christmas along with all gendered terms, according to a recent internal document obtained by Italian daily Il Giornale.
Give-and-take measures introduced by the Kremlin in response to the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions have severely hit mutual trade between Moscow and Athens, with Greek exports to the country reportedly halved over the past seven years.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko goes straight for NATO’s jugular: The West uses migrants against Belarus in case of conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
From the 28th December, Day of Hannukah, European officials were advised not to use terms such as ‘Christmas’, ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ and other words that might seem offensive to people of different cultures, religions and sexual orientations in their speeches. This edict is stated in the ‘Handbook for Inclusive Communication’ published by the unelected European Commission.
On Thursday night, Polish police officers were able to successfully suppress the revolt of a violent group of migrants who were residing in the detention centre for migrants in the village of Wędrzyn in western Poland, near the German border.
My Old Man’s a Dustman was one of Britain’s greatest hit recordings. The song was first recorded by the British skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan. It reached number one in the British, Irish, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand singles charts in 1960. Now, using the original melody with even more eye-watering lyrics and the new version is set to tumble anti-Vaccine records. VIDEO
In his bestselling new book ‘France Has Not Said Its Last Word Yet,’ published in France two months ago, French-Jewish journalist Éric Zemmour describes life in multi-ethnic France from a right-wing and sympathetic position.
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