Author: Leigh Banks

The brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith Bennett has posed the question – how can police be denied access to secret documents about a murder case? Alan Bennett said: “How can any information be seen as anything other than essential to an investigation?” He recently met with the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to discuss the new… Continue reading As new crime Bill lumbers on, Keith Bennett’s brother asks how police can be denied access to murder clues

Today Britain was silent as the Queen lead a sad salute to the 126,172 of us who died from Covid. We have just marked the first anniversary of national lockdown. Boris Johnson also offered his condolences to families who lost loved ones to the virus What a tragedy this has become for the world. But… Continue reading Window on our Covid world one year later …

Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has talked openly about the reasons the government regularly fails to help our vulnerable children. She also pointed out an ‘institutional bias against children and families’, particularly in the Treasury. This means, she said, resources are not where spent where they should be to create the most impact… Continue reading Did ex-child boss Anne ignore parental alienation as she told Boris to end institutional bias?

Leigh G Banks is a journalist and broadcaster and spent many years investigating child sex abuse in the UK. He worked on the Rochdale and Cleveland abuse scandals, has investigated paedophiles in churches, Satanic abuse and exposed politicians and celebrity perverts. Here he takes a look at the racist myth that Britain’s child sex grooming… Continue reading The truth about grooming gangs in the UK … and how racism is failing child sex victims

A REVIEW OF THE NEIL YOUNG FILM PARADOX Last night – well 3am this morning actually – I was feeling a bit despondent, so I was flicking through YouTube looking for music to lift my mood … I went through the usuals, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and of course His Royal Bobness. Then I rekindled… Continue reading Let’s Stop Knockin’ the Free World …Forever (Neil) Young!

For almost two decades I featured new music from aspiring artists on my radio shows, Leigh G Banks’s The Trip and Leigh G Banks’s The Dinner Party. Last year I changed tack and now have a cable TV show and make documentaries, so radio has taken a back seat. For now. Meantime, performers are still… Continue reading Masked and anonymous … the secret life of The Foole

Has lock-down really got you feeling blue? How do you think about life AND yourself after a year of uncertainty, health threats, financial worries, loneliness, not seeing family and friends … And does it show in your body, mind and spirit? Well, we’ve just come across a website that addresses all these issues – and… Continue reading Single-minded! Make a date with yourself to shake off break-up blues and lock-down dilemmas

Now a friend of Sarah Edwards has spoken out about the disrespect in the UK towards Sarah’s death and her family. Her friend said (see full report in link below) : “Her abduction and murder is not, in my opinion, a symptom of a sexist, dangerous society. When something awful like this happens there is… Continue reading Sophie hits back at views on men in awful circus surrounding Sarah Everard’s murder

Slovakia’s health chief Marek Krajčí has resigned for ordering Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. He had been coming under pressure from the country’s four-party ruling coalition. Slovakia followed Hungary in buying Sputnik V which doesn’t have EU authorisation. “Two coalition parties made my resignation a condition for them to stay in the coalition. In such… Continue reading Slovak health boss out as ‘Sputnik’ spins overhead, worming drug arrives and we sit in a virtual waiting room for jabs