All That Is Solid ...

There seems to be quite a few novels I've read this year you can only describe as bone-achingly tragic. I haven't long read Sophi...

As a proud Stokie through choice, I felt the need to share this wonderful hymn to the Potteries with you. AVPS is currently rubbing the slee...

AVPS is having an extended summer snooze. It will be back round about August time with a few changes here and there. Hope you're not mis...

As you may have noticed, it's been a while since I last posted. This once I'll skip the usual roll call of excuses and jumpstart ...

Abbey Green ward in Stoke occasionally crops up as a topic of discussion over at the UKLN , not least because in 2006 Paul Sutton, a Labour ...

No, we were not spending our valuable time talking about our Weekly Worker friends. The topic of tonight's talk was the implantation th...

I must apologise for keeping my audience on tenterhooks. Yes, all 15 of you. I haven't really joined the Tories. This transcribing/worki...

I first became interested in politics 20 years ago, when our school held a mock election to run in parallel with the 1987 general election. ...

Just a few words on Michel Foucault ’s understanding of power and his first volume of the History of Sexuality before I write a post on the...

I awoke in the early hours of Saturday morning to find the bedroom bathed in pulsating blue light. Cat leaped from the sack to peer out the ...