PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: NORWICH MOSQUES FEED HUNDREDS

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged arson, Blessed Are the Strangers, Boris Johnson, charity, chloe smith, Community, conservative party, Covid-19, East Anglian Mosque and Community Centre, foodbanks, fundraising, Ihsan Mosque, Islam, islamophobia, Mile Cross, mosque, Muslim, norfolk community foundation, norwich, Norwich Central Mosque, Norwich Muslim Community Association, religion, solidarity, Soul Foundation, Tory Islamophobia, zakat.

By Sean Meleady

Mosques across Norwich have been working hard in recent years to develop understanding of the Islamic faith and culture, and to improve community relations. Starting with the establishment of the Ihsan Mosque near Chapelfield Gardens in 1977, there are also mosques in Dereham Road, Rose Lane and Aylsham Road, and a community centre in Sandy Lane. Not only is the local Muslim community small but it is geographically isolated from larger communities in Birmingham, London and Yorkshire.

FOOL BRITANNIA: LET’S ALL HAVE A DISCO

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged 1851 Great Exhibition, blairite, Brexit, british politics, conservative party, featured, festival of britain, millennium experience, post-brexit, satire, theresa may.

By Jonathan Lee
Content warning: minor instances of crude language and a mention of blackface (all used for satirical effect)

Oyez! Oyez! It has been announced by our most beneficent leader, Theresa Mary May, that on this two hundred and twenty second year of our Lord, a fayre of Britannic proportions shall be held, on every pleasant village green and suburban cul-de-sac, throughout this land of the South East of England.

The Tories have pulled another joker from the pack, this time with months to go until B-Day, and announced with much bravado a post-Brexit ‘Festival of Britain’. Or to everyone north of Grantham and west of Bristol: Festival of the Home Counties. The glorified Sunday fête will aim to replicate the Labour Party’s event of 1951, which celebrated the successes of the post-war consensus, growing internationalism, and an era of rebuilding and growth through social democracy.Continue Reading

THE TUITION FEE FREEZE – TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged access, austerity, Brexit, child poverty, conservative party, conservative party conference, conservatives, elections, false promises, fox hunting, Free Education, government, help to buy, jeremy corbyn, Labour, less well off, living standards, migration, older people, patronising, politics, prime minister, privatisation, property ladder, repayment threshold, snap election, student debt, student loans, student welfare, students, theresa may, tuition fee freeze, tuition fee rises, tuition fees, voters, voting, young people.

by Laura Potts

As the country continues to languish in the grasp of a Conservative government, and the shadows of brexit and the snap election continue to lengthen, many are left questioning the political standing of this country’s future. This year’s extraordinary general election has made many people feel alienated from their government, especially among the younger generation. Hardly surprising, as the ultimate outcome reflected the voting preferences of their elders, with 58% of 60-69 yr old’s voting conservative while 62% of 20-24 year olds voted labour.

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ‘AT LEAST IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE, RIGHT?’

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged conservative party, cuts, depression, medication, mental health, NHS, waiting lists, wellbeing.

By Zoe Harding

Content warning: mental health, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, suicide.

This article is not written in the Radical’s usual style, with all the froth and fury about parts of society that might be ‘broken’ or ‘harmful’ or ‘dog-fucked beyond human comprehension by a swarm of grey-suited sociopaths inexplicably elected by a suicidal electorate’. There will be no solutions, no imprecations, no lights shone into dark places because everything’s fine.Continue Reading

WE STAND ON A PRECIPICE – THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, benefits, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, british politics, caroline lucas, civil liberties, climate change, comprehensive schools, conservative party, conservatives, corbyn, cuts, education, election, elections, emmanuel macron, GE17, general election, grammar schools, Green, Green Party, green surge, greens, incarceration, international development, islamophobia, jean-luc melenchon, jeremy corbyn, Jonathan Bartley, Labour, labour party, leanne wood, Liberal Democrats, macron, market, melenchon, migration, military intervention, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Northern Ireland, owen smith, paul nuttall, politics, privatisation, progressive alliance, public sector, public services, sanders, schools, Scotland, scottish national party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, snp, social democratic and labour party, theresa may, Tim Farron, Tories, Tory, tory party, uk politics, Wales, war, welfare, xenophobia.

by Chris Jarvis

With Theresa May having all but called an early General Election, on June 8^th, the UK will go to the polls for yet another vote that will have long-reaching consequences for the future of the nation, the third in as many years. For the people of Scotland and Wales it will be the fourth – and those living in Northern Ireland will face their fifth. Right now, our political leaders can’t seem to get enough of sending people trudging out to schools, churches and community centres to scribble little pencil crosses in printed boxes.Continue Reading

COPELAND WAS THE FINAL STRAW: CORBYN MUST RESIGN

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Brexit, conservative party, copeland, jeremy corbyn, labour party, local elections, mp trudy harrison, Perspectives, politics, Tories, uk politics.

by anonymous

On the morning of 28^th October, 1931, Britain woke up to one of the most remarkable political events in British history.

Seeking approval for a bizarre coalition of Conservatives, dissident Labourites and Liberals, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald had gone to the country just two years into a Parliament. Having jettisoned his former party (Labour) whom he had led into government in 1929, MacDonald’s ‘National Government’ received a stunning mandate from the electorate: the parties making up the government won an astounding 67% of the votes and 90% of Parliamentary seats. The Tories alone won 55% of the national vote and 470 out of 615 seats, the last time that any political party has won a majority of the national vote.

SQUALOR, OVERCROWDING, EVICTIONS – THE TORIES HAVE NO ANSWERS ON THE HOUSING CRISIS

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Britain, british politics, conservative, conservative party, conservatives, Dawn Foster, eviction, government, homeless, homelessness, Homelessness Reduction Bill, housing, Housing and Planning Act, housing crisis, inter|national, local government, Parliament, politics, Sajid Javid, social housing, theresa may, Tories, Tory, uk, uk politics.

by Olivia Hanks

“Walk down your local high street today and there’s one sight you’re almost certain to see. Young people, faces pressed against the estate agent’s window, trying and failing to find a home they can afford.” Sajid Javid’s words, in his speech launching the government’s latest white paper on housing, were rather unfortunate. The sight we’ve all been seeing on high streets this winter is the clusters of sleeping bags in doorways, the faces those of people failed so badly by society that they no longer have anywhere to live at all. This lack of understanding of what the housing crisis really is – not just thwarted aspirations of ownership, but squalor, overcrowding, evictions – sets the tone for this misfiring, misleading, self-contradicting paper.Continue Reading

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.

SOCIAL EQUALITY, NOT SOCIAL MOBILITY

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, british politics, class, conservative, conservative party, conservatives, education, equality, EU, EU ref, eu ref results, EU referendum, european union, further education, grammar schools, Labour, labour party, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, middle class, olympics, school, social equality, social mobility, Tory, uk politics, working class.

by Olivia Hanks

Theresa May’s indication earlier this month that she will reintroduce selective schooling has reignited the debate on ‘social mobility’. Tory backbenchers believe the secondary modern system (or the grammar school system, as they insist on calling it) was good for social mobility, but various reports support the opposite view, that selective schooling entrenches inequality. Of the tiny percentage of children from working class backgrounds who attended the old grammar schools, two-thirds did not manage to achieve three O-levels.Continue Reading

LICENCE TO HATE: POST-BREXIT BRITAIN

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, conservative party, EU, EU referendum, Europe, European Championship, european union, Islam, Islamaphobia, jeremy corbyn, labour party, Michael Gove, multiculturalism, Muslims, neoliberalism, Poland, racism, referendum, Sima Kotecha, uk politics, xenophobia.

by Faizal Nor Izham

Content warnings: xenophobia, racism, racial slurs

You’d think that after more than three decades of multiculturalism in the UK, racism should have, more or less, become a thing of the past. Yet bigotry has decided to rear its ugly head once more after the recent EU referendum, with many of those who voted for Brexit, in particular those from a working class background, feeling the result has given them the right, and indeed social acceptance, to begin verbally chasing out migrants, in some kind of vague collective bid to “get [their] country back”.

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PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: NORWICH MOSQUES FEED HUNDREDS

By Sean Meleady

FOOL BRITANNIA: LET’S ALL HAVE A DISCO

THE TUITION FEE FREEZE – TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ‘AT LEAST IT CAN’T GET ANY WORSE, RIGHT?’

COPELAND WAS THE FINAL STRAW: CORBYN MUST RESIGN

HOW SUSTAINABLE WILL BRITAIN BE POST-BREXIT?

LICENCE TO HATE: POST-BREXIT BRITAIN

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