Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and anybody else who’s reading and listening (yes you can do both on here!) … welcome to Leigh’s New World. It may be a world of chaos and disorder but it is also a world of campaigns and fights, a world of news and shining lights in… Continue reading Goodbye cruel world … welcome to the Self Preservation Society
OUT OF THE SHADOWS …
PETER DAVIES, from NAAP and D.A.D.s, writes … beware of tricksters, blustering obfuscation and egos like bloated cadavers… Recently, it has been necessary to take time out from swimming in the noxious cesspool of the ‘UK PA’ world. I made the decision for me to focus on things close to home and prioritise them over… Continue reading OUT OF THE SHADOWS …
Dopey and Grumpy bash it out –
The show that is not to be sneezed at! Tackling the issues that matter with a smile and a rant. Join Leigh and Rodney for another brilliant show, talking about faux, Bentleys, riots in Bristol and euthanasia
Reading between the lines
Reading Between The Lines is a new section where readers can share memories of their hometowns… here Dorothy Banks shares a poem about Moston, a small suburb of Manchester. Dorothy says: “I was born in Bute Street and lived in Moston for the rest of a very long life. Moston and Manchester are in my… Continue reading Reading between the lines
As new crime Bill lumbers on, Keith Bennett’s brother asks how police can be denied access to murder clues
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
Window on our Covid world one year later …
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 …
Did ex-child boss Anne ignore parental alienation as she told Boris to end institutional bias?
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?
The truth about grooming gangs in the UK … and how racism is failing child sex victims
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
SEAHORSES AND THAT BIRD ON A WIRE
I was trawling through my archives the other day and came across this … I had been working as a travel writer for a morning newspaper and was invited to visit Hydra, the Greek island Leonard Cohen had called home. Leonard moved there in 1960, at the age of 26. His grandmother had left him… Continue reading SEAHORSES AND THAT BIRD ON A WIRE
Equality is no laughing matter! so, Leigh and Rodney analyse a couple of sexist jokes!
Don’t shoot the messengers, join in the rant… do Europe’s politicians need a jab to the nose for refusing 746,000,000 people a shot in the arm? And what about euthanasia? Do we have a right to say when our time is done? Can it ever by kinder for our friends, family and society in general… Continue reading Equality is no laughing matter! so, Leigh and Rodney analyse a couple of sexist jokes!