EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-Level, assessment, BBC Bitesize, coronavirus, Covid-19, data, digital technology, education, entertainment, exams, featured, GCSE, higher education, internet, jeremy corbyn, Labour, Lenin, lockdown, mental health, National Education Service, NHS, online counselling, online education, pandemic, policy, politics, primary education, privatisation, schools, secondary education, student mental health, teachers assessment, tony blair, Youtube, zoom.

By Howard Green

Tony Blair, upon his election into government in 1997, famously declared that his top three priorities were “Education, education and education”. At the other end of the century, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed that education that didn’t teach about life and politics was indeed a “hypocrisy”. Education has been a central focus of politics for over a hundred years, and today is no different. As the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted conventional ways of learning for many, the modern British educational system needs short term and long term reform if it is to adapt to the issues of the 21st century. With the advent of Zoom lessons and online assessments, now is the time to explore the full potential of digital technology as the new frontier of education.

HAPPY DAZE – THE REVIVAL OF NORWICH DRAG

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged age, Bishy Barnabee, Blazing Rose, body hair, Devil Child, digital media, Dolores Deepthroat, drag, drag queen, entertainment, featured, femininity, gender, inclusivity, Liv, Lowestoft, Luna Howl, Neon Summer of Love, norwich, norwich pride, patriarchy, Pride on the Green, queer, queer culture, Sylvia Daze, Take The Weight Off Your Mascara, the birdcage, The House of Daze, The Rose Bud Club.

By Laura Potts

Take The Weight Off Your Mascara is Norwich’s up-and-coming drag night, run through The House of Daze drag house. I was lucky enough to interview four key members of The House of Daze: Sylvia Daze, Liv, Bishy Barnabee and Devil Child. Consisting of both regular performers and occasional guests, such as Dolores Deepthroat, The House of Daze are following in the footsteps of previous Norwich drag collectives like The Rose Bud Club and such local drag legends as Luna Howl.

COMBAT CAPITALISM – THE SHAME OF MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Amanda Nunes, athlete, boxe, boxing, brock lesnar, capitalism, combat, combat sports, Conoc McGregor, Dana White, Dimitrius Johnson, entertainment, fight, Floyd Mayweather, George St Pierre, Jay Z, Jon Jones, martial arts, MMA, money, mysogyny, press conference, profit, racism, sexism, sport, sports, toxic masculinity, UFC, wrestling.

by Toby Gill

Content warning – sexism, domestic abuse, racism, two very rich men being awful.

Last night, combat sports enthusiasts of the world gathered around their television sets. At the end of a long day’s work, they sunk into their sofas – remote in one hand, perhaps a Bud in the other. Of course, as they have been saying to their less knowledgeable friends for months, this whole fight is simply a farce. Of course, just like everyone else, they are obviously going to watch it. This week has been the world tour: a series of hugely anticipated pre-fight press conferences. Fans now watch eagerly – just to see if there could be some substance to this fight after all.

What they have been greeted with is a steaming, grotesque, shameless turd-like insult to everything they hold dear.

THE LONGEVITY OF ART

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged adult education, art, artists of colour, arts, arts cuts, austerity, books, budget, catharsis, CILIP, Creative Scotland, creativity, economics, Edinburgh, education, entertainment, funding, Gal-dem, HE, Inverleith House, libraries, literacy, money, National Gallery, National Lottery, New Art Gallery, NHS, numeracy, philanthropy, POC, reading, Tate, V&A, value, Walsall, woc, worth.

by Candice Nembhard

In times of national or personal struggle, we have long since turned to our favourite books, records or films for companionship and reassurance. We find comfort in these creative endeavours – the note of a song or the rhythm of a sentence – that often mirror the nuances of daily existence. Yet, whilst we use these tools of communication, we have yet to fully support them with our time, interest and money. With authorisation from government officials, local authorities have seen their arts funds and budgets cut consistently since 2010. Consequently, libraries, art galleries and museums have been affected most, with numerous closures occurring across the country.Continue Reading

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE DEATH OF CULTURE

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Adorno, Arcadia Group, art, capitalism, comfort, communication, cosumerism, counter culture, creativity, culture, culture industry, entertainment, generation, Horkheimer, justin bieber, Kraft, market, mass media, media, MSM, music, nostalgia, produce, product, Sony, superificiality, talent, Western culture.

by Liam Hawkes

As a 20-year-old young man today, I find myself surrounded by a society and culture which seem to lack substance in a lot of ways. I have had a lot of enlightening conversations with friends about this, and one of the conclusions we reached is that we are the generation of nostalgia, imitation, and regurgitation. We think back to the golden filters of 60s or 70s music as the paradigm our experiences now should imitate. We idolise the past because of the lack of originality in the present.

I feel part of a reflective generation which instead of projecting creativity into the future, we simply project it into the past to achieve a nostalgic warmness to keep us comfortable. This doesn’t surprise me when I look at the advent of pop culture and what is considered ‘talent’, or the celebrities of today. This is all a downward slope from the crossing the threshold of the millennium and feeling more culturally empty than ever before.Continue Reading

ART: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged advertising, adverts, aesthetics, anime, art, art history, arts, benefits, communication, culture, defence, education, entertainment, history, humanity, importance, manga, media, MSM, news, photography, Photoshop, positivity, terror, visual art.

by Jess Howard

With the threat of terrorist attacks and war seeming to dominate every newspaper front page and website, it can be easy to ask if we should still place any importance on the visual arts. With daily news telling us that more and more people are dying, starving, or becoming homeless, many may ask if we should concern ourselves with art at all. But, when we really consider it, we can see that an aversion to what may be deemed frivolous and unnecessary is actually completely impossible.Continue Reading

CULTURE CU*TS

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Apple, arts, bbc, conservative, corporate, culture, Doctor Who, entertainment, general election, media, neo-liberal, radio, streming, torrents, TV, welfare cuts.

by Mike Vinti

The future of the BBC is uncertain. Despite John Whittingdale’s assurances everything is going to be ok, you can’t help but wonder — if they’re abolishing grants for disadvantaged students, cutting disability benefits and generally meddling in the NHS, why would they save the BBC? As the Tories start to enact their new budget, it seems nothing is safe.

The cuts have already started. Though its programming has been weak in recent years, the loss of BBC Three is symbolic of the Tories plans for the rest of the broadcaster. It hardly seems like a coincidence, especially in the context of Osbourne’s refusal to scrap the free license fee for over 65s, that the BBC’s youth-focused channel was A) its most neglected or B) the first of its services to go. The Tories’ cuts to the welfare state have disproportionately affected young people ,and if previous attempts are anything to go by, so will its gradual disintegration of the BBC.

This will be easy for Cameron and his underlings in the department of Culture, Media and Sport to achieve. The BBC has been losing young viewers and listeners from its TV and Radio stations for years.Continue Reading

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EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

HAPPY DAZE – THE REVIVAL OF NORWICH DRAG

COMBAT CAPITALISM – THE SHAME OF MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR

THE LONGEVITY OF ART

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND THE DEATH OF CULTURE

ART: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

CULTURE CU*TS

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