THE UK’S INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Amber Rudd, anti black, black lives matter, BLM, crime, discrimination, division, establishment, featured, Home Office, institution, international, platform, racism, Stephen Lawrence, uk, windrush, xenophobia.

by Gunnar Eigener

Institutional racism has, for many years, been the more unpleasant side of societies throughout the world. Black and other minority communities have long been oppressed by predominately white police departments. Crimes within these communities have rarely received the attention that equivalent crimes in white neighbourhoods have. Civil rights marches have been going on for years, social media tracks the violence of police forces, and the alternative media exposes the racist actions of institutions and establishment figures. But has anything really changed? Have we made any progress that truly shows a change in perception? Sadly, it doesn’t seem so.Continue Reading

PARTY CONFERENCE SEASON RECAP

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, Brighton, conference, economics, general election, grant shapps, Green, Iain Duncan, jacob rees-mogg, jeremy corbyn, Labour, neil kinnock, party, Plaid Cymru, policy, politics, pundit, Sirte, snp, speech, theresa may, Tory, uk, UKIP, vince cable.

by Chris Jarvis

Political punditry’s busiest time of the year has come to a close, as most of Britain’s political parties have wrapped up their annual festivals of spin, spectacle and speculation – only Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Greens remain un-conferenced. What a season it has been.

Typically speaking, party conferences go mostly unnoticed, change little in the political landscape, and are quickly forgotten as the cogs of history whirr on unshaken. 2017 will be more than an aberration to that pattern. True, the ‘smaller’ parties failed to make a mark this time round too. Little of note came out of the SNP or Green Party of England and Wales conferences. The sole memorable moment of the Liberal Democrat soiree was the laughable assertions trotted out to the press time and again, that Vince Cable could soon be the next Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UKIP’s will only be recalled as the final subdued howl of Little England defiance as it casts itself into electoral and political irrelevance. That notwithstanding, this year was a bumper crop.Continue Reading

SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, Amber Rudd, certification, contribution, data, doctor, Dominic Scott, education, fees, HE, Home Office, institution, international students, mental health, migration, Migration Advisory Commission, numbers, NUS, savings, solidarity, student, student union, theresa may, tuition, UK Council for International Student Affairs, university, vince cable, visa, work.

by Alex Powell

Not too long ago, a series of news stories began emerging. These stories documented the fact that the government’s estimates for the number of international students who outstay their visas were greatly exaggerated. Despite this, the government has continued to push two convictions. Firstly, that it is appropriate for international students to be included within wider immigration figures, and secondly, that immigration is too high and needs to be cut. These dual premises are having a hugely detrimental impact on the experience of international students, so it is important that other students do all we can to show solidarity with our fellow students and push for changes to this policy.Continue Reading

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged academia, Amber Rudd, data, Dominic Scott, education, fees, HE, Home Office, institution, international students, migration, Migration Advisory Commission, numbers, NUS, savings, student, theresa may, tuition, UK Council for International Student Affairs, university, vince cable, visa.

by Robyn Banks

Last week, yet another of Theresa May’s lies was revealed: the number of international students staying in the UK after their visas expire isn’t anywhere near as high as she has frequently claimed. The idea that international students frequently stay in this country illegally was a touchstone of her policy whilst she sat as the Home Office Minister and has continually been backed up by her cabinet colleagues, including her successor to that ministry Amber Rudd.

However, on Thursday 24th August, the Office for National Statistics released new migration data showing that only 4600 international students have overstayed their visas. Not quite the hundreds of thousands that May, Rudd et al keep harping on about.Continue Reading

THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, Amber Rudd, austerity, Brexit, Britan, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, coverage, democracy, exit poll, forecast, general election, greens, jeremy corbyn, John Bartley, Labour, leadership, libdems, manifesto, media, MSM, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Norwich Radical, paul nuttall, people, Plaid Cymru, PLP, politics, poll, prediction, propaganda, Scotland, snp, theresa may, Tim Farron, tony blair, Tory, uk, UKIP, vote, voter, voting.

by The Norwich Radical

The following piece was created, compiled and co-written by a number of Norwich Radical contributors, across a number of locations, devices, and even countries. We followed the exit polls, the first counts, the calculations and predictions as they became available across the media. We do not have any inside information, but have combined our experience and information during the night to produce this article in time for the morning readers.

There is no final result confirmed at the time of publication, but it has been confirmed that we have a hung parliament, as it is mathematically impossible for any party to claim an overall majority.

HOW SUSTAINABLE WILL BRITAIN BE POST-BREXIT?

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amber Rudd, arms trade, Brexit, Britain, british politics, campaign against arms trade, conservative party, equality, immigration, international, Labour, labour party, migration, NHS, snp, theresa may, uk politics, war.

By Faizal Nor Izham

With negotiations for Brexit to be finally executed come March 2017, as announced by Theresa May last week, a burning question yet to be properly tackled by the Conservative Party is: what exactly is their overarching plan to ensure future economic sustainability and prosperity for the country? Now that a major source of economic strength has been cut off (read: migrants), a fully laid-out plan to outline Britain’s steps towards continued economic growth in their absence has yet to be tabled.

GENERATION PARK NORWICH: TOO BIG TO FAIL?

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Amber Rudd, angel of the north, Axis, backers, BH, biomass, biomass power station, Buro Happold, BWSC, CHP, clive lewis, co2, community benefit, CRed, E.ON, East of England Development Agency, EEDA, energy, environment, Environmental Sciences, EON, fantasy, generation park, GPN, Green, incinerator, investment, Jaywick, John Schellnhuber, Kevin Tovey, NCC, New Norwich Power (N2P) Limited, norfolk, norwich, Norwich City Council, NPH (Norwich) LLP, Pelco (Distribution) LLP, PensionDanmark, power plant, Regional Development Agency, renewable energy, Suzanne Jones, Trevor Davis, UEA, University of East Anglia, world landmark.

by Suzanne Jones

In March this year the Evening News reported that Generation Park Norwich (GPN) had run out of money, leaving its backers (Norwich (NPH) LLP) with debts of £3M. The ‘green’ credentials of UEA, the leading advocate of the scheme, had been further undermined by the complete failure of their own biomass project, at a cost of £10M, and were first reported in the Norwich Radical in August 2015.

Norwich City Council (NCC) seemed to be back to square one after spending 12 years and £700k of public funds trying to come up with a viable use for the Utilities Site, to the east of the city centre. To quote Clive Lewis, the Norwich South MP, the whole scheme seemed to be ‘dead in the water’ before it had even got off the drawing board.

Yet now, like a phoenix from the incinerator’s ashes, it has miraculously risen again; ‘mysterious’ new backers have emerged, and things are back on track for the planning application to finally be heard in July or August. How is it that proposals which have been dogged by controversy, bankruptcy and delay refuse to die? Are there reasons why Generation Park Norwich (GPN) is just too big to fail?Continue Reading

Amber Rudd

THE UK’S INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

PARTY CONFERENCE SEASON RECAP

SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

HOW SUSTAINABLE WILL BRITAIN BE POST-BREXIT?

GENERATION PARK NORWICH: TOO BIG TO FAIL?

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