HOW TO LOSE £30 MILLION: THE UEA CRISIS EXPLAINED

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Norwich Radical in April 2023, Inter|national, Student and tagged biomass park, christine bovis cnossen, crisis, david mcguire, david richardson, deficit, featured, generation park, Ian Callaghan, jason brown, norfolk, norwich, OfS, sally howes, SaveUEA, sky house, students, UCU, UEA, uea council, union, Unison, Unite, University of East Anglia.

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By a frustrated member of UEA staff

The University of East Anglia is in crisis. £30 million or more in deficit. Hundreds of jobs under threat. Zero of the leaders who got us here willing to take accountability. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is an existential threat to the future of one of Norfolk’s most important institutions.

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THERESA MAY HAS LOST CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE. HER PREMIERSHIP IS DOOMED.

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Ancien Regime et la Revolution, Britain, change, control, deficit, dwp, elite, free market, French Revolution, globalisation, Hillary Clinton, inaugural speech, injustice, jeremy corbyn, lost control, Louis XVI, modern politics, MPs, narrative, neoliberalism, obama, Osbournism, party whip, policy, politics, post truth, public statements, seeds of change, tax breaks, theresa may, Toqueville, Tory, Trump, tuition fees, Universal Credit, Washington.

‘The most dangerous time for a bad government is when it begins to reform itself.’ – Alexis de Toqueville.

Give people an inch, and they will take a mile. This is what de Toqueville hinted at in his Ancien Regime et la Revolution, his celebrated account of the French Revolution. It was just as Louis XVI’s regime began to reform that the masses could take no more. Just as the promise of real change was made, the guillotine fell.Continue Reading

POST-TRUTH POLITICS AND THE WAR ON INTELLECT

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged american politics, american presidential election, austerity, brendan o'neill, Brexit, british politics, Cameron, class, cuts, david cameron, debt, deficit, Donald Trump, elitism, EU, EU referendum, european politics, european union, fedia buric, george osborne, grantra, intellectualism, international politics, inter|national, media, Michael Gove, politics, pomerantsev, post-truth, putin, SOAS, spiked magazine, the sun, Trump, US election, US president, US presidential election, USA, vladmir putin, vlandislav surkov, working class.

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“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.”- Mikhail Bakunin

There’s a new buzzword in the air. We are now living, it is claimed, in a post-factual or post-truth society, where facts no longer matter to the general public. At face value it seems like a bizarre claim. But while politicians and the media have always lied to the public, if you consider the audacity of the lies of the last decade in contrast to the sheer number of tools available to us to find out the truth, you begin to see the point.Continue Reading

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