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.
A black deputy mayor of Paris, Audrey Pulvar, sparked controversy on online media after she said White people (natural Europeans) should remain ‘silent spectators’ if they attend meetings where people of colour discuss racism.
The leaders of two ethnic-patriotic Italian parties would welcome Fidesz in their respective European Union parliamentary groups, Italian media reported on Sunday. According to the outlets, both the League, led by Matteo Salvini and the Brothers of Italy (FdI), led by Giorgia Meloni would welcome the creation of a joint European Parliament formation with the Fidesz group.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Rally party, has indicated that her first decision in the event she is elected president following upcoming elections would be to hold an immigration referendum. Border control and tax reform aimed at easing the pressure on the middle classes would also be priorities.
Four Weddings and a Funeral star has condemned the hapless UK government for its handling of the coronavirus crisis on numerous occasions.
British Expat Pensioner Left In Tears After Being Refused Boarding By EasyJet At Malaga Airport.
A BRITISH expat was left in tears on Saturday, March 20, when easyJet staff refused to let her board her flight to Luton. Janet Gillett, 78, a grandmother who lives in Calahonda, Mijas Costa, had left her home that day looking forward to seeing her family and especially her grandchildren.
The claim that Prime Minister Chamberlain capitulated to German President-Chancellor Adolf Hitler by signing the Munich Agreement is constantly spun as a cowardly act. William Joyce provides the best backdrop to those pivotal events. His honesty was the real reason behind the Irish-American illegally to the hangman in Wandsworth Prison.
Ahead of the Glasgow ‘Old Firm’ football bonanza and clash on Sunday 21 at Celtic Park, both sets of players refused to ‘take the knee’.
Bristol’s enraged Mayor Marvin Rees has slammed those involved in Sunday’s riot which saw 20 police officers injured some seriously. The outburst occurred as concerned people took to the streets of Bristol to protest a bill that will give UK police draconian new powers that bring to mind Stalin’s notorious Soviet Union.
Migrants and those with a foreign background should be given preference in the allocation of jobs for public jobs in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, according to a proposal from Social Democrats (SPD) in the Kiel state parliament.
Few people realise, perhaps because they have never been told, is that Hitler’s Germany never, before or during World War II, declared war on Britain or France or their overseas territories. On September 3, 1939 Britain and France disappointed their citizens by declaring war on Germany.
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