Author: Leigh Banks

Let’s get Deidre Sanders on board in our fight against PA! As most people know here, I’m a journalist and broadcaster – real McCoy! I write for national newspapers and magazines regularly and I have a cable TV opinion show on AirTVinternational which is featured on Roku. But stories about parental alienation have rarely managed… Continue reading Sun finally shines a light on parental alienation, thanks to my old ‘mucker’ Deidre

Children’s Mental Health Week, 2021, encouraged children to express themselves and share their feelings … here Andrew John Teague, from NAAP and D.A.D.s, discusses how parental alienation can damage our children. The worst thing about contact denial is, without a doubt, not being able to see or speak to your children. But can you even… Continue reading One day you’re there – the next you’re gone. How does this affect our children?

This is a very short excerpt from my new – but, as yet, unpublished – book Ravine. A lot of it is about Moston and Manchester … When Ludwig Studios, Moston, shared these pix of Hough Hall with me, it reminded me I’d written a short piece on the history of this little Manchester suburb.… Continue reading THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOSTON’S vanishing ancient HALL

Surely, one of the best things in life is to be able to tell your child that you love them … to let them know that you care and that you will always be there to protect them. Then something awful happens and you split from your wife or husband and one way or the… Continue reading Have you been advised to STOP telling your child you LOVE them?

What is wrong with Britain? Even the Covid vaccine is anything but a shot in the arm to some people who’ve had it! As if it was some major talking point, Piers Morgan revealed his mum has flu-like symptoms after her first coronavirus vaccinations and that began a debate yet again how safe it all… Continue reading Why are we moaning about a shot in the arm which could cure our world?

Mosa Kiswane has gone straight to the top in his battle to mend his broken family… Straight to the top of one of the world’s highest mountains, Kilimanjaro. Mosa, aged 49, said: “I’d reached rock bottom five years ago but now I’ve climbed back and got to the summit of Kilimanjaro. It means such a… Continue reading Taking on family heartbreak by climbing from the bottom of a bottle to the top of Kilimanjaro

About 35 years ago, I’d just finished an interview for a morning newspaper with pop crock PJ Proby. Jim was making yet another comeback, this time by claiming that Madonna was singing on the notorious Savoy Sessions, his latest recording. Of course she wasn’t and she was apparently threatening to sue him. What did she… Continue reading How a slur by Proby led me full-Tilt into Scott’s world of Gothic genius

The debate over free speech The banning of Donald Trump from twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat has caused a freedom-of-expression furore not seen in America for half a century and before. The Independent Workers of the World – Wobblies as they were known – fought for free speech for nine years in the 1900s.… Continue reading Why Donald was trumped by his desire to blow with the hot air of the unfettered cyber world

Cafcass has said one of its leading advisors has been misrepresented in the ‘bear garden’ of social media. The organisation, described as a child protection agency and the largest employer of social workers in the UK, is regularly attacked on Facebook, twitter and other ‘free speech’ sites by alienated parents. But it has defended itself… Continue reading Campaigner tells of toxic parental alienation attacks as Cafcass denies social media ‘comments’

Does Dylan really owe the wife of one-time song collaborator Jacques Levy £5.25m? Or is this just a desire to get a share of Bob’s fortune at a time when he is, quite rightly, cashing in his assets? In the complaint, to the New York Supreme Court, Claudia Levy has accused Dylan and Universal of failing… Continue reading Clash on the Levy as Jacque’s wife ‘desires’ £5m off Bob from songs sale