Ed Walker

1 week ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Ed Walker

Preston continues to bask in balmy Spring temperatures and it was a sweaty affair on the Flag Market during Saturday night. The first day of the Preston Weekender saw the city get on its dancing shoes. Pete Tong, Sam Divine, Macy Lancaster and Mark Freejack kept the tunes flowing throughout Saturday as the two-day festival kicked off welcoming thousands of music fans to the city.

1 week ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Ed Walker

Work on the multi-million pound revamp of the city’s former court buildings is due to begin this summer. Revised proposals for bringing the decades-long wait for a new future for Amounderness House are now approved. Costing around £9million the building spanning Earl Street and Lancaster Road is grade-II listed.

1 week ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Ed Walker

A glimpse inside the city’s former courthouse has been given before major restoration work begins. Amounderness House is to become a new office and working hub. But dating back to 1857 the building housed the courtrooms, and cells, for justice being done in Preston. Read more: Dangerous Avenham Street building being demolishedThe grade-II listed building will see modernising and many original features restored – although it’s not known what part the cells will play in the new use.

1 week ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Ed Walker

Preston’s general election trends played out ten months down the line – with the city not quite humming the same tune as the county-wide storyline. This is not surprising, Preston’s politics has been multi-party for a long time now. And single-issue politics and the strength of a single candidate remains a powerful political weapon in the city.

1 week ago | emptywheel.net | Ed Walker

The introduction to this series should be read first. It has the index to all posts in this series. The previous post discussed two aspects of Yarvin’s first blog post, his rejection of current ideologies and his loathing of democracy. This post describes the ideology he created, formalism. The goal of formalismYarvin starts with the proposition that the only truly significant problem facing humans is violence. The goal of formalism is to rid the planet of violence.