The Plashing Vole

One of the interesting things about social media is that it's so emotionally open. Anyone can turn up, express a depth of emotion – posi...

I went off to a sixth form college yesterday to run a 'taster session', designed to enthuse some teenagers about a) taking an Englis...

Needing a few days of proper culture, I spent the weekend in Stoke-on-Trent, where Culture is never hard to find, despite what some of you L...

“You are the top 1%. The Labour party is in the shit. It is your job and your responsibility to take leadership going forward.” These are ...

So last week I had an afternoon off and went to London for the launch of the new Norton Shakespeare. It's 3500 pages long and 7.3cm thic...