Blog update: A proposed overhaul

What with the blog recently hitting 20,000 posts, I've become increasingly aware of the fact that the blog is becoming a bit too unwieldy and overblown and, in its current format, more difficult to navigate. For example, if you were to look to the right hand side of the blog's homepage, to the label section, and scroll down to 'Book Review', it will tell you there are currently 1961 posts listed under that label. Now, that's a mind-boggling number . . . so many book reviews, so little time . . . but it doesn't really assist the reader in finding a particular book, a particular author or a particular subject. 

So, in light of this, I'll be adding some new features on the blog in the coming weeks and months which will hopefully assist visitors in being able to find what they want to find on the blog. This will include the following: 

• Specific pages for individual Socialist writers. 
• Following on from the special pages at the top of the homepage for current Socialist Standard columns such as Pathfinders, Material World and Cooking the Books, individual pages dedicated to regular monthly columns of yesteryear from the Socialist Standard. 
• A page giving a chronological list of all the short stories which have appeared in the Standard and other socialist publications down the years.
• A page giving a chronological list of all the poetry which have appeared in the Standard and other socialist publications down the years.
• Individual pages dedicated to the various publishers that have been featured and reviewed in the Socialist Standard over the course of its history.
• And also, when time permits, occasional posts which seek to cover certain subjects with a list of links of articles and reviews that go into more detail. I've done something similar in the past with posts on the 1924 Labour Government, Orwell and Spain, May Day and the Socialist Standard  . . . and, cough, Socialists and Christmas.

In the meantime, carry on with using the label section on the right hand side of the homepage as it becomes increasingly bloated and, if that doesn't work for you, use the search box in the top left hand corner of the homepage. That can provide more information than the label section but don't come crying to me when you type in "Stafford Cripps" and it spews out 148 posts in no particular order.