‘Empires crumble all the time’ and events of the last week or so seems to point to if not the end of an empire certainly the end of an...

Following on from my starter for 10 concerning the regeneration of Burslem the most questions have been around the City hub proposal so...

Three things brought the homeless situation into stark focus for me this week. Firstly, as Trustee of a charity that primary helps...

There has been a lot of talk recently about levelling up with some investment being earmarked for Stoke-on-Trent. While all and any...

It seems Stoke on Trent North is in at least the Twitter spotlight tonight thanks to the antics of Jonathan Gullis MP. Mr Gullis it seems...

I remember speaking to a young man who had been involved in gangs in East London, he has turned his life around and was helping me run a...

There is something a bit fishy going on that’s for sure, a number of people who were very bullish about Brexit seem to be evaluating...

Ok it’s been a tough year, and while I don’t want to trivilise or play down the hurt and effect this virus has had in lives one of the...

I wanted to do a nonsense poem In the style of Spike Milligan or Micheal Bentene , I think there is also some Lewis Carrol influence....

This really is a stream of consciousness poem, partly inspired by U2’s numb and partly by 90’s east coast rap. but weird and still not...

I find myself in the state of Perpetual limbo land Impossible to fathom Harder still to understand Looking for the reason Finding folly...

This poem was inspired when i saw a social media page with a load of ex vets ripping apart a bunch of fake soliders, referring to them as...

Due to current lockdown restrictions today we had to live stream church from what has Jokingly been called studio 2 Gough Towers , also...

I have always admired Billy Graham, his autobiography sits proudly in my study bookcase. For me as a young Christian his was an example...

O ne of the positive things to come out of this year for me at least has been the listening parties organised by Charlatans frontman and...

I remember the outcry when Martin Scorsese’s last temptation of Christ was released. One of the worst optics I remember was one church...

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, six months of relative calm descended on Europe. During a period dubbed the “phony...

I know I keep saying I was late to the party and it’s become a reoccurring theme of recent posts but it’s true, which brings me to the...

Adam Curtis is a very talented documentary maker, he has done a large number of quite brilliant and mesmerising documentaries mainly for...

Do you have to be a Mexican to cook authentic Mexican food? I have recently been recovering from a big health scare which provided me,...