Author: Leigh Banks

Some of 80s rock and pop luminaiies have paid tribute to Happy Mondays bass player, Paul. Paul, brother of the band’s frontman Shaun Ryder, was one of the founding members of the Manchester band. He was 58 years old. Announcing his death on Twitter, his family wrote: ‘The Ryder family and Happy Mondays band members are deeply… Continue reading ‘Love ya long-time Paul,’ tributes as Happy Mondays co-founder dies, aged 58

For years, as a father campaigning against parental alienation and as a working journalist, I have had my freedom to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth strangled by laws supposedly designed to protect our children. But family laws in the UK – and to a large extent across the world… Continue reading Finally, journalist ‘allowed’ to share cold dark truths of the family courts

THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN TOWN WHERE IT’S GOOD AND BAD AND UGLY. AND UP FOR £2.8m! Once upon a time in a corner of Spain, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda shot holes through the desert heat. And a cinema cowboy classic was born. But Once a Time in America wasn’t a tumble-weed moment for Hollywood more… Continue reading FOR A FISTFUL OF EUROS

POP ARTIST #1 Norman Greenbaum {IRREVERANCE] An introduction of Jesus takes in tongue and cheek. Americana farmer felt of the Bible belt…tills and turns that could be straight out of shock value…yet a super Jesus boogie in song—- even if a non-believer. ‘’Who cares!’’ His hit song ‘’Spirit in the sky” which really rocks…and feels… Continue reading BOB DYLAN AND NORMAN GREENBAUM: ‘JEWS IN THE JESUS CORNERS’ 

Child sex offenders in South Australia face tougher jail sentences after new laws were passed into state parliament. Among the changes, the maximum penalty for gross indecency has been increased from five to 15 years. People caught in possession of a child sex doll could face more than a decade behind bars while online predators who download,… Continue reading Perverts in South Australia face tougher jail time

Actor Brian Jackson who played orange juice boss in 1980s adverts has died aged 91. Brian starred as the white-suited fruit inspector who used the phrase in the gloriously funny sunny ads, ‘the man from Del Monte, he say yes’. Brian had starred in more than 25 commercials in 32 countries from the 1980s to… Continue reading The Man From Del Monte, he is dead

A state-of-the-art recording of Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind has been snapped up for almost £1.5 million. The disc with a difference is the first new studio recording of the song since Dylan wrote it in 1962. It was sold by Christie’s in London. The sale exceeded the original price estimate which was set as… Continue reading WHY T BONE STAKED HIS FUTURE ON DYLAN’S CHANGING TIMES AND A MUSICAL SPIRAL

MAIN PICTURE: Leon Neal/Getty Images It used to be the case that Donald ducks and Boris bends it like… well, a politician. People accuse me of being a Tory – and worse, a Boris believer. But why would I support a liar, a kamikaze political pilot, a man who appears to be without shame, a… Continue reading BYE BYE BORIS! YOU WERE BECOMING AS TRAGIC AS TRUMP…

We Brits have been told that Covid is so bad again that we really need to go back to being masked and distanced. Boris’s boffins and medics fear Covid hospital cases are about to hit an 18-month high. So, Dame Dr Jenny Harries, one of the UK’s most senior health officials, has warned a current… Continue reading COVID COMEBACK… THE MASKED MARAUDER AND DAME COVER-UP

It’s not easy being green if your a pop fan is it Greta! As bands and performers better suited to the Eurovision Song Contest filled the dope and juniper air with plinky-plonky rubbish, the weekend hippies in posh wellies and camper vans discarded their empty water bottles, muesli and sausage wrappers, their roaches and dimps,… Continue reading RE-GRETA!