Tag: David Banks
Voice of The North grieves the death of its guiding spirit
Former The Journal columnist and VoTN co-founder Keith Hann writes:
Few people can have defied the Grim Reaper with more audacious dedication than David Banks, who...
Just when you thought education ministers couldn’t make more of a...
The pressure should be on the Department for Education, and particularly on its ministers, to do something about the bizarre mismatch in schools between...
Banksy, a bandit? Musing on masked mayhem. And who really was...
That picture in the latest Banksy’s Week got me thinking.
It was a shock to see how like a bandit the masked Banksy looked. Was...
Curious cacophony in Crookham as Banksy goes ballistic: a tall tale...
What was that curious cacophony in Crookham last weekend? Don’t worry: it was only Banksy going ballistic at government’s labyrinthine Cummings and goings!
Was I...
Perils of a pen-pusher: punctuation and prolixity
Writers have been getting a bit of stick recently. Trouble is, what they write gets (hopefully) seen by a lot of people, so they...
Whatever happened to plain speaking?
I’m back in the north, amid the hills I love, and looking forward to enjoying the plain speaking one gets from the marvellous inhabitants...
Retired again, un-hired again: I won’t ever feel quite so tired...
Retired again, un-hired again: I won’t ever feel quite so tired again.
Bemused, bothered and bewildered am I!
Hum to yourself that modified text of one...
FOR WHOM THE BULL TOILS
MY GRANDAD would have loved Castro's Cuba, if only for the horses.
We are on a longed-for trip to the socialist state of sugar liberated...
A ‘deluded, out of touch, far-Left, lunatic , media establishment fascist!’...
THERE is a dedicated voiceofthenorth.net reader and compulsive BBC Radio 5 Live listener who appears to loathe the words I write and speak and...
