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Tourism 2025: Seize the day and end unregulated mass tourism that is turning Europe into an over-crowded culture wasteland
Selfie taking tourists abound throughout the Mediterranean world as this selfie-obsessed visitor to Valetta Harbour in Malta would confirm (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Camera clicking, self-obsessed podcasters, crime fuelling brats,… Read more >

Holocaust Memorial Month – A time when the world remembers the death of Jews in Europe but turns a blind eye to what’s happening right now in the Congo
The wretched of the African earth, struggling to survive against men with slogans in their heads and guns in the hands The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)… Read more >

Auschwitz without the Russians will be like Hamlet without the ghost
Because of its invasion of the Ukraine, Russia will be barred from a ceremony marking 80 years since the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland…. Read more >

Epiphany 2025: Wise men and women needed to save a church led by truth-ducking and silent self-serving bishops
Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the equally unpopular Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York and number two man in the Anglican hierarchy Epiphany is the day baby… Read more >