In Absurdistan, an extraordinary little multi-race nation resting on the seabed off Europe, the HMS Prince of Wales flagship of the once world’s greatest navy has suffered a series of costly failures since its launch in 2019.
Whispering Hope is one of Western civilisation’s most engaging and enduring ballads. I was told by my Liverpool-Irish mother that at the onset of World War II, the suicide rate went through the roof, such was the anti-war sentiment.
Charity worker Isabel Vaughan-Spruce claimed she had been ‘searched, arrested, interrogated by British police, and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind’.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, gender reassignment and paedophilia. Information about the signing by the president appeared on Monday in the card of this law in the database of the State Duma.
The term ‘Jerry Built’ was an expression commonly used in England before and after World War II. Back then, I thought it was a totally unwarranted attack on German workmanship; jealousy in trade rivalry no doubt. Mind you, when in 2005 I shelled out £,3000 for a state-of-the-art BMW 7 Series car I had second thoughts.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to drain the swamp in Brussels.
THERE’S AN EMPTY SEAT IN THE CLASSROOM
There’s an empty seat in the classroom,
Where a child once sat and dreamed,
But it never once occurred to the child,
That men of ill-will scheme.
NEW YORK, 18 December. The rejection of Russian gas in light of the situation around Ukraine has already cost Europe about $1 trillion, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing its own calculations.
‘The entire metropolis of this once-great European city presented a vision of what the inner earth must appear to be. The sounds of the howling winds feeding the flames competed with the deafening crackle of thousands of fires. Explosions filled the air. Tar on the roads changed into liquid form and in ripples moved in whatever direction the incline directed it to do so….’
Protesters called for a review of France’s policies towards the US-led bloc and Moscow and denounced anti-Russia sanctions. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the French capital on Saturday to protest France’s policies towards Russia and the nation’s NATO membership.
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