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By the hormonal age of 12 I was furious. But the man who had shot white stripes of harsh reality across my young acned and blood-rush universe was even angrier. It might have been the cider he drank sprawled across the couch. But when Bob’s Like a Rolling Stone burst out of our telly –… Continue reading DAD’S RAGIN’ FURY AS BOB’S LYRICS MADE ME LIKE A ROLLING STONE

A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY LEIGH G BANKS and EHI EKHATOR, THE STANDARD GAZETTE A council which won an international housing award sold a 92-year-old grandmother’s home for £50,000 under its market value and told her family they’d done it to save her £7 a week, it is claimed. Newcastle City Council had apparantly been reported… Continue reading Award-winning council says police not investigating after care-home gran’s house price slashed by £50,000

Jockey legend Lester Piggott has died at the age of 86. His career lasted almost 50 years and he rode almost 4,500 winners – the third highest record in British racing history beaten only Sir Gordon Richards and Pat Eddery, He was crowned champion jockey 11 times and his name became synonymous with the Derby,… Continue reading THE LONG RIDE HOME … LESTER PIGGOTT DIES AGED 86

The Queen has been on The Throne for 70 years …hmmm, to us Northerners that has a totally different meaning. But you can wipe that smile off your face right away – don’t doubt for a second I’m logged in, pumped up and ready to poo-poo any negative toilet humour! Yes, Liz lives in the… Continue reading OUR QUEEN OF THRONES … 70 YEARS OF LIZ GETTING IT RIGHT, DESPITE THE FAMILY

By ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, d.a.d.s. and NAAP Deliberate physical child abuse is described as non-accidental physical injury by the UK courts.The same should be said when children go through psychological abuse.The non-accidental psychological injury in the child.Child abuse is child abuse whatever the form.More and more often children are being set up to beat on… Continue reading MIND TORTURE! HOW OUR CHILDREN ARE ABUSED BY LYING PARENTS AND COURTS

I love Bob Dylan. In a manly way of course. He is the wild, exotic, mysterious roust-about brother I never had – and I didn’t know I even wanted until the day after my 9th birthday in 1962. The buck-toothed goof of a leader of our gang in the rainy back streets of Manchester in… Continue reading CONGRATULATIONS… FOR BREAKING MY HEART

I once got in trouble on a BBC radio programme for describing The Beatles as ‘just a psychedelic Abba’. I had a knack for saying the completely right wrong thing as a broadcaster at the time… Witness ‘Daniel O’Donnell is so middle of the road he should be run over…’ It was all just too… Continue reading ABBA-HEART, I’M A HAIRY ROCKER WITH A SECRET ADDICTION… Oh, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO… I DO!

My man is not for changing, says Mrs Zelensky PICTURE: Olena Zelenska/Instagram Volodymr Zelensky and his wife Olena are spending time together with their children in a major show of defiance to Monster of War Vladimir Putin. Out of the blue a confetti of incendiary bombs and a congregation of mindless murderous uniformed morons left… Continue reading FACE PAINT AND PRIDE… A FAMILY AT WAR

Very sad to report this, Bob Neuwirth, one of Bob Dylan’s sidekicks died aged 82 a few days ago. We would have reported this sooner but we’ve had ‘techy’ problems. To many Dylan fans Bob Neuwirth was a dignified, often zany (to use an old fashioned word) but ‘ruthless’ part of Bob’s madcap world of… Continue reading Bob Neuwirth dead at the age of 82… watch him perform inside

A compendium of reviews of the last few months of Bob Dylan’s never-ending career After Bob’s latest leg of his never-ending tour was brought to an abrupt halt by Covid, here at The Society we began curating thoughts, writing, reviews, vids and comments showing how, at 80 he is still refusing to look back. He’s… Continue reading DO LOOK BACK!