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.
Julia Petta died in 1921 during childbirth and her baby never survived her mother’s passing. died too. Both were buried in the same coffin at the cemetery in Chicago. But a few years later Julia’s mother began to see strange dreams in which Julia said she was alive.
World War II veterans welcome the respect that comes with their once having been a member of the armed forces. This is a normal human trait but chances are they were not volunteers. Conscripts, many of them in their teens, were press-ganged into the armed forces. If there was genuine enthusiasm for the war then conscription would be neither necessary nor desirable.
A viral video has contrasted Prime Minister Scott Morrison telling the UN General Assembly that Australia believes in ‘freedom’ and the ‘dignity of all people’ with Australian cops beating the shit out of citizens for not wearing masks.
There were times when the people of the so-called democracies needed true and principled leadership? During and after the Wall Street transfer of Imperial Russia to the Bolsheviks (1917-1922). The counter-revolution that could have prevented Bolshevism was ruthlessly suppressed by the double-dealing ‘democracies’.
The descent of Wall Street controlled Africa foretells a darker future for the Dark Continent with Europe also being caught in the crosshairs of history by the collateral damage.
The Czech Republic’s prime minister flatly rejects the idea that immigration must be promoted in order to save an aging Europe all while family formation and births plummet, according to remarks he made Thursday at the Demographic Summit in Budapest, Hungary.
A lot has changed for Victorians since the lockdowns started. Our lifestyles. Our waist sizes. The kinds of things we see as normal. And a lot has changed in Victoria itself since we’ve been in lockdown as well. For example, have you seen our police lately?
In recent years, classical music has become one of the key targets of social-justice warriors. And in their rage against classical music, the self-chosen elites reveal that their crusade against ‘problematic’ culture is really a crusade against the supremacy of the best of Western civilisation itself.
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Sir John Bell have both said coronavirus will eventually cause illnesses that are as mild as a common cold, playing down fears of a more deadly variant and adding the UK ‘is over the worst’.
Book burning modern style; it seems it is okay for Amazon and Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube to deny and destroy reading and video material they don’t like, but sinful for a plucky woman to do what most folk really agree is not okay.
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