Author: Leigh Banks

We packed the boot of our ‘Bentley’ with lamps and books and stylish old clothes. It was time to head back to our European ‘heaven’. Things were getting pretty tight out there, the city we now called home was going in to semi-lockdown again. Being back in Britain had been markedd by soaring happiness and… Continue reading 4,000 miles through a covid world to see our family … and it went wrong

George Clooney and Bob Dylan are to work on a new film adaptation of John Grisham’s baseball-themed book Calico Joe. The project has Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov getting together with Dylan’s Grey Water Park Productions.  Calico Joe is the story of a father and son, played out against the backdrop of league baseball in the… Continue reading Dylan and Clooney set to retell story of Calico Joe

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we practise to please … like all those people who asked us to do a webinar on how to make a living as a writer. Sorry! We zoomed in, we zoomed out, we picked up the computer and shook it all about. We went live – then… Continue reading Web of intrigue as Jess and I try to have screen chat about making it as a writer

President Donald Trump has ‘put people’s lives at risk’ with his decision to stage a drive-by outside the hospital where he is being treated for Co vid-19. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For… Continue reading How Trump came over ‘all unnecessary’ and deliberately drove into another potential Covid scandal

Today was a day of self care and love or REST. I get super sad when I come home from travelling – it feels like pulling myself out of where I am meant to be.So today I made some Truffle Fettuccine (made with truffles I brought back from Croatia) to make this I blended black… Continue reading BIG TRUFFLE IN LITTLE CROATIA

Contributing writer Andrew John Teague Why are men taking their own lives every year in Yorkshire and Humber? The Office for National Statistics has revealed that the region has the highest suicide rate for men across England and Wales. It works out at 20 men in every 100,000 who live in the region actually kill… Continue reading No way back when you are in Hull… why are so many men killing themselves there?

Where has the spirit of the British gone? An army of snoopers on the streets – the legitimising of the UK’s peevish little village gossips and busybodies – making sure pubs and restaurants have cowed to the curfew. All now sleeping… Like Dylan Thomas wrote a few years after we had come out of the… Continue reading Are world governments the real anarchists as we lose our spirit in the ‘second dark time…’

FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX MILLION newspapers are sold across the world every day. So, based on industry standards – and all industries are allowed to have them – there are about 1.5bn daily readers of what are considered to be the most heinous, lying, despoiling, misleading, exaggerating, click-baiting, sensationalising, scandalising, distorting, disingenuous, despicable, debasing,… Continue reading Prints of darkness, godless of light and the madding clouds of internet liars…(click inside for video)

I have to admit that I have never managed to forgive the two ex-partners who cheated on me. The first ‘cheating’ happened almost 30 years ago. And, like an emotionally injured elephant, I have never forgotten… The last time I was cheated on by a partner was 20 years ago and it led to me… Continue reading From a Garrison of hope – we take a look at the secret life of the cuckold

Contact denial happens so fast – yet while earth continues to turn for us all. Time never stops, it continues, as the months, the years burn There are millions of broken hearts – and there are tears – all around the world, forming the rivers of pain as the children’s lives are left in the… Continue reading This heartless, contactless world with its C100 forms and those ‘smug’ school-gate parents