Do you see yourself as bad-ass or are you in reality just really toxic? I came across this human behaviour quiz from smiley California, where people like to say ‘life’s a beach – not a bitch’. And the quiz made me realise that not only have I met every one of the types of people… Continue reading Fear and loathing in the world of parental alienation … those of us who can be toxic
Author: Leigh Banks
I am a journalist, writer and broadcaster ... lately I've been concentrating on music, I spent many years as a music critic and a travel writer ... I gave up my last editorship a while ago and started concentrating on my blog. I was also asked to join AirTV International as a co host of a new show called Postcard ...
MR COOL NEVER STUMBLES, HE’S GOT NO PLACE TO FALL … BUT HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE THE ODD TRIP OR TWO!
Bob Dylan is the coolest man in the world, right? I think most of his fans will agree. But we will also have to accept that not everybody sees him in that way, including my 90-year-old mother who still maintains after half a century that she can’t stand his ‘trilling’… And as if to add… Continue reading MR COOL NEVER STUMBLES, HE’S GOT NO PLACE TO FALL … BUT HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE THE ODD TRIP OR TWO!
The Man With No Name – dad jailed anonymously in war over children
Senior judges are investigating after a dad of three was anonymously sentenced to prison in a battle over his children. Now his hearing – deep in the sinister bowels of the Family Court system – has been highlighted as a return of the ‘hanging’ judges who are willing to ‘secretly’ take away a parents name… Continue reading The Man With No Name – dad jailed anonymously in war over children
How ‘five-and-dimer’ Joe sold caring renaissance to the macho Lone Star State
When I first heard about the plight of Joe ‘Hurricane’ Dore, the bisexual hero and storekeeper of a little Texas alligator town, I was fascinated. After all Texas is ranked as one of the worst US states for LGBTQ equality. And Joe’s story had come to light just a few weeks after Donald Trump had… Continue reading How ‘five-and-dimer’ Joe sold caring renaissance to the macho Lone Star State
Covid winners! Er, excuse me! Do you know Paul O’Sullivan from Manchester?
This is him! Some say he may live in Moston? If you see him don’t be a stranger – he’s not behind the door at coming forward himself. And in fact he was part of the world’s first cyber Covid-lockdown band just over six months ago! Now everybody, including Dylan, is following him – and… Continue reading Covid winners! Er, excuse me! Do you know Paul O’Sullivan from Manchester?
WHY CLAUDIA CRASHED TRYING TO LEVY A ‘TAX’ ON BOB’S LIFETIME OF WORK?
Claudia Levy, the once-blonde bombshell who tried to blow a hole in Dylan’s sale of his songs, has earned quite a bit of celebrity off him over the years. She was pictured at the launch of Scorese’s bleary Rolling Thunder fantasy film, for instance. She also did an interview with Ray Padgett in Flagging Down… Continue reading WHY CLAUDIA CRASHED TRYING TO LEVY A ‘TAX’ ON BOB’S LIFETIME OF WORK?
‘Horror’ of how child support agencies wage war on our forces heroes
CMS has got us in its sights, making us homeless and even driving us to suicide, claims Bosnia vet A former soldier has been waging a 11 year private war against the UK’s child maintenance service. He claims forces people are constantly in the CMS sights because they are easy targets. And their treatment by… Continue reading ‘Horror’ of how child support agencies wage war on our forces heroes
Now we ex-pats can visit UK without being ‘homeland lepers’
It’s almost like we ex-pats have been punished for leaving the clammy shores of the UK. Some of us fled Britain for sun, sea and sangria, others left for health reasons or cheap property. Some for life style. Still others retired to Europe and some, like us, came out for business reasons. But it was… Continue reading Now we ex-pats can visit UK without being ‘homeland lepers’
Slovaks protest over Covid passports while we ask, were we just a herd of vaccine fools?
While good old Blighty blisters under summer heatwaves rarely seen before the Brits moan about it being hard to get away for a fortnight in the sun! And, on the other hand ex-pats, like us, who want to go home, are being made to self-isolate because the NHS doesn’t recognise the jabs we legitimately had… Continue reading Slovaks protest over Covid passports while we ask, were we just a herd of vaccine fools?
Goa-ing down the road to equality on an island of dirt and dreams
By Jessica Steen Arms wrapped tightly around my driver as he weaves our moped through cars to an orchestra of horns. The wind whips through my hair and the smells that fill it are heady, awakening my senses with sweet perfumes and spices that quickly flit to a stomach-turning sewer and rot. The roads are… Continue reading Goa-ing down the road to equality on an island of dirt and dreams