Category: Media

GILES WATSON WRITES: Another toxic meme is circulating. It tries to claim that most of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Italy were accompanied by “comorbidities”, and it insists that most of the deaths were in nursing homes. Given that this meme is appearing repeatedly on my news feed, I’m going to put my answer… Continue reading The execrable garbage on social media – and a Covid Mad Hatter’s tea party

A lot of people on the site have been asking when Leigh is ‘doing’ radio again – his shows The Trip and the Dinner Party had dedicated listeners across the world. Leigh is currently working on his memoir, Ravine, and is collaborating on two mainstream TV documentaries. He is also continuing the fight for parental… Continue reading Take the original Trip with Leigh G Banks…

By Alena Dulakova, Tatras Escapes Carrie and I met around three years ago. We used to work together for an education franchise in Reading, UK. We clicked right away. You know when somebody just gets you completely and utterly from (almost) day one? We became very good friends … I have always talked about Slovakia… Continue reading Here’s to our mums – the beer bathing beauties!

A lot of people on the site have been asking when Leigh is ‘doing’ radio again – his shows The Trip and the Dinner Party had dedicated listeners across the world. Leigh is currently working on his memoir, Ravine, and is collaborating on two mainstream TV documentaries. He is also continuing the fight for parental… Continue reading Grin and bear it…Leigh’s ‘lost’ radio shows

What is wrong with our banks? Why do they think they can lie to us, strand us a thousand miles from home in a covid-ridden country, refuse to give us our money when we want it, leave us standing forlornly on the doorstep of a hotel with no way of paying the bill, render us… Continue reading No magic if you bank on penn-y and teller for your own dosh

Enigmatic troubadour Leonard Cohen discussed very little about politics in his 60 year career, only to say that he wasn’t cool with extremism of any kind. Leonard was happy being a politician of the broken heart. But his legal team believe that the urbane and charming poet would be fuming after Trump’s camp included Hallelujah… Continue reading Cohen’s legal camp warns Trump – you want it darker?

In a very small way we have just tasted what it is like to face racism. Don’t get me wrong, we haven’t had to cross from one land to another in a leaky plastic boat or feel our lives sweating out in the back of a rocking roasting truck. No. And we don’t have to… Continue reading I’ll let you be in my ‘Johnny Foreigner’ dream, if I can be in yours…

MSM has been having a good old laugh about UK minor celebs missing out on that trip to the land of Oz to eat worms and Witchetty grubs in a bug-ridden forest as that vomit-ridden scandalous travesty of modern entertainment keeps a welcome in the hillside for them! #i’maceleb #getooutofhere #antanddec #antanddick #celebs #jungle #oz… Continue reading A bit sheepish about those shower scenes as I’m a Celebrity heads for the Welsh hills!

Sex assault victims in Victoria, South-East Australia, have lost their right to use their own names when they tell what happened to them – and who did it! The changes to the Judicial Proceedings Reports Act, introduced in February, silence all sexual assault victims from ever speaking out under their real identities. These laws are… Continue reading Shame in Victoria … sex victims must stay anonymous to protect paedophiles

The other day I was mooching in a second hand book shop in Newport, Shropshire, when I came across a tome about my old home town of Wolverhampton (writes Andrea Martin-Banks). As I leafed through page after page of grainy black and white photographs of places I recognised – The Wolverhampton Airport at Pendeford, where I… Continue reading How size 13 winklepickers led to family’s lost picture