David Banks
@DBanksy
Media law trainer & consultant. Legal commentator, author, journalist, husband of Wild Guide author @sarahbanks21, dad-of-three. Cymro. @dbanksy.bsky.social
To the spouses who found out they were being cheated on via the Coldplay jumbotron: sorry to hear that. Come see Spinal Tap. We promise no jumbotrons, just ear damage and emotional closure.
Bollocks. Animalympics, once upon a time man, and Bette Davis and Christopher Lee in Return from witch Mountain
No kid remembers their best day in front of the TV.
Friends and I just discussing who will play who in the dramatisation of Peggie V Fife. So far we have Anna Maxwell Martin as Naomi C, Miranda Hart as Kate Searle and Brian Blessed as Dr Upton.
Every comms team should have - usually secreted away in a pub - a rabid tabloid hack. Now and again they might need to ask the hack: “What would you do with this if it got out.” The hack would cackle and reveal a vision of PR Hell. Then they might avoid shitstorms like this…
Day 5 | PM Session | Peggie v NHS Fife & Dr Upton How to Bury an Email (and a Woman’s Rights) The fifth day of Peggie v Fife NHS Board & Dr. Upton closed with two afternoon sessions that drilled straight into the case’s procedural and moral core. Dr. Kate Searle - A&E…
A veritable who's that of politics
The first sacking from Kemi Badenoch's frontbench is Alan Mak as shadow DSIT secretary. He didn't take up the offer of a more junior role. Mak says "this is the right time for me to focus locally".
I find myself looking for work! Should anyone want to commission a journalist published in the Financial Times, Forbes, New York Post, The Guardian, The Independent, Business Insider, Fast Company and more, I'm available. #journorequests
If violent attacks on any other ethnic group were very clearly being precipitated by violent racist rhetoric towards that group that rhetoric would be roundly condemned. But because the victims are Jews instead you’ll actually find widespread *support* for the violent rhetoric
On Thursday in London a horrible woman attacked Jews outside a Jewish cafe. She interrogated a Jewish teenager with “You Israel?” and then physically attacked the table. This is violent hate. EXACTLY what this movement is about.
Is anyone at @BBCNews - senior or otherwise - asking why the stand-out and most editorially-telling moment from the NHS Fife/Peggie tribunal this week remains unreported across its vast swathes of platforms and outlets? thetimes.com/comment/column…
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mask off, pretext gone. Watch the way he enjoys saying " The Jew" - he just loves it; the telling smirk
Raw, unfiltered antisemitism. This is Dublin - the capital of Ireland - the most antisemitic nation in Europe - and what you see is the result of decades of anti-Israel demonisation pushed out by parts of the Church, Irish media and Irish politics.
“a soft spring rain Like an English rain So light, yet endless From a leaden sky”
PR&Comms lecturers and crisis management trainers hard at work right now, in the goldmine that is the NHS Fife timeline… *screenshot* *paste image to slide* *screenshot* *paste image to slide* *screenshot* *paste image to slide* #sandiepeggietribunal
I know I am old fashioned in various ways but if I was a party in a legal case I would simply choose not to issue a press statement halfway through the hearing attacking the integrity of the opposing counsel.
NHS Fife rewrite Peggie statement after seeming to link nurse's backers to violence. NHS Fife are out of control. The Scottish Government must act. heraldscotland.com/news/25325704.…
Today we informed Kneecap no further action will be taken after an investigation into comments made at Glastonbury Festival. Enquiries continue to be carried out into separate comments made on stage during Bob Vylan’s performance. Full statement 🔽 orlo.uk/qkigu
This is such a travesty of what happened that it takes my breath away. Anything to hit the Starmer government whatever the context, inherited roots of the scandal and the truth. Goodwin sinks to new lows - which in his heart he must know.
In the last 24 hours it has become crystal clear to everybody in the UK that the reason the state took winter fuel payments from British pensioners, raided British family farms, and piled taxes on British businesses was so it could spend billions secretly importing dangerous…