Author: Leigh Banks

Star I found ‘lost in her own world’ comes out flailing over the tragedy of her son 17 Should social media ever be the place to share your horror and heartbreak as Sinead O’Connor is doing now? Sinead went. over a short period of her life, from being the beautiful, ethereal face of the Nineties… Continue reading Should Sinead be using social media to share her agony over Shane’s suicide?

Sinead O’Connor’s teenage son has been found dead two days after he was reported missing. His mother took to social media saying singer ‘Shane decided to end his earthly struggle’. Only days earlier Sinead had threatened the hospital where Shane was being looked after with legal action for ‘letting him out of their grasp while… Continue reading Sinead’s son, 17, dies … new tragedy for star I found ‘lost in her own world’

Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, has died, aged 94. His death has just been confirmed by Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell. Mitchell said, “We’ve lost a great Bahamian and I’ve lost a personal friend.” #poitier #sidney #dead #actor

More than anything, for an elderly man of generally good reputation to face discreditation at a time he is brilliantly topping and tailing his vast legacy to the world, is a tragedy. Particularly, when the allegations involve sexual abuse. And at 80-years-old this is what Bob Dylan is facing. But finally, through his lawyers, he… Continue reading BOB COMES BACK FIGHTING IN THESE ROUGH AND CLOUDY DAYS OF CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS

Sir Keir Starmer supports Sir Tony Blair’s latest honour. He says that the former prime minister deserves it. Is the man mad? More than 600,000 people have already signed a petition calling for the appointment by the Queen to the Order of the Garter – Britain’s oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry – to be removed. What… Continue reading Starmer supports simpering Tony as 600,000 say ‘belt him in the garter!’

The Painted Desert is about 300 miles from Vegas. If you ride there on the back of a Greyhound it takes 13 hours. Unlucky 13. 13 steps to death in Gallows Town, 13 whispered lies against God. The Painted Desert is in the badlands of Arizona and leads eventually into the Petrified Forest. Route 66… Continue reading Tom shines a light on the strange fruit swinging by America’s tracks of hatred

Every year as the sky grows dark on the last year – 2021 was a helter-skelter of downward twists and turns – The Society looks back at what had it jumping over the moon! And in 2021, yep, it was the same as in 2020 … Bob Mori’s independent video of Bob Dylan’s magnificently moving… Continue reading The best music vid of 2021 (and, yep, 2022!) .. Mori’s take on Bob’s real-life murder ballad

It’s been a funny year, 2021 hasn’t it. Well, when I say funny I mean there’s not been much to laugh at … apart from Stumbling Joe, Boris the Buffoon, Andrew the non-sweaty *rseole, Mad Max from France, that big f*rt Trump, and that very nice Mr Put-it-in-to-the-Ukraine-and-the Western-world who we lived just around the… Continue reading 2022! It’s all good – Andrew is non-sweaty, Britney is free and there’s a new call to arms… hohoho!

It happened outside a little old cafe in Istria as we sat under a skylight moon. She looks beautiful, my daughter. Haughty and proud … I can smell coconut-oil in her hair on the salty night breeze from the Adriatic at the end of our ancient crumbling street. Jess is 24 and I am three… Continue reading How I found Jess in a Covid blighted city. Now I wait everyday to speak to her…

OUR CARAVAN OF LOVE AND HOPE … The Society is publishing the true story of a woman who went to hell and back because of breast cancer. This is Kaye Howarth’s story in her own words. Thank you for wanting to share with us and the world Kaye. Biography … Bald Bird Surviving Breast Cancer Part… Continue reading KAYE’S LIFE… THE POWERFUL STORY OF A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR – PART 8