VATICAN’S REACTIONARY RESPONSE TO ITALY’S ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA MUST NOT BE TOLERATED

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged catholic church, culture war, DDL Zan, featured, free speech, gay marriage, gay rights, hate crime, hate speech, Italy, Lateran treaty, LGBTQ+ rights, Mario Draghi, pope, reactionary right, Vatican city, Zan Bill, Zan Law.

by Alessandra Arpaia

Content warning: hate crime, assault

In the past few months, Italy has witnessed lengthy debates concerning a new anti-discrimination bill due to be passed by the Senate. Named the ‘Zan’ Bill after deputy Alessandro Zan, who proposed it, the bill’s main resolution is to criminalise hate speech. The proposition is to expand an existing law against racial, ethnic or religious discrimination, so that is also covers discrimination based on gender, sexuality and disability.

RUPERT READ IS NOT THE PEER THE GREEN PARTY NEEDS

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged acab, climate change, colonialism, elections, environment, Extinction Rebellion, featured, free speech, Green Party, House of Lords, international aid, JK Rowling, metropolitan police, migration, neoliberalism, Parliament, philosophy, police, politics, racism, rupert read, transphobia, uk, University of East Anglia, wages, white saviourism, XR.

By Robyn Banks

Content warning: mentions transphobia

As the Green Party lets its members elect its third member of the House of Lords, one candidate’s name has jumped to my attention more than the rest: Rupert Read. For those who don’t know, Read is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, a former Green Party Councillor in Norwich and, according to his website, a ‘climate and environmental campaigner’. Whilst this can be seen as an impressive list of roles and beliefs, these aren’t the reason that Read’s name caught my eye.

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arrest, Chelsea Manning, extradition, featured, free press, free speech, investigative journalism, journalism, Julian Assange, media, US, whistleblowing, WikiLeaks.

by Lotty Clare

Fugitive, criminal or hero? Everyone seems to have an opinion on the sudden arrest of Julian Assange on April 11th, what the broader implications are, and what his fate should be.Continue Reading

THE CALL FOR MEASURED DEBATE ON GRA IS DISINGENUOUS

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, debate, discrimination, Equality Act, FairPlayforWomen, fear, featured, femininity, feminism, free speech, gender recogniton act, GRA, Graham Linehan, identity, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, migration, online, propaganda, terf, trans, transgender, woman, Women's Place.

by Lee-Anne Lawrance

CW: transphobia

As we approach the (extended) close of the consultation to the reform of the Gender Recognition Act, one group of activists is calling for a calm and rational debate – or in their words, a ‘respectful and evidence-based discussion’.

The current debate has been dominated by a group of so-called ‘feminists’ and supporters who oppose the changes, citing ‘concerns’ for women. The concerns they raise however are based on false information. Nothing short of propaganda is used to disseminate this false information to the wider public. Continue Reading

FEES, FREE SPEECH AND FILIBUSTERING – A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAM GYIMAH MP

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged cabinet reshuffle, EMA, featured, filibustering, first aid, free speech, government, higher education, homophobia, homosexuality, jo johnson, maintenance grants, nurses' bursaries, NUS, office for students, Parliament, Sam Gyimah, secondary schools, students, tef, theresa may, Toby Young, Tories, tuition fees, Turing Bill, UCL, UCU, universities, Universities minister, voting record.

by Robyn Banks

Here’s a sentence I’ve wanted to write for some time: Jo Johnson is no longer the Universities minister. Last week Theresa May ‘promoted’ him to the transport office and made him the new minister for London. His removal came just days after Toby Young was forced to resign from the Office for Students (OfS) board, in part due to his link to a eugenics conference held at UCL.

CHALLENGING MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE CAMPUS FREE SPEECH DEBATE

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, activism, campaigning, controversy, democracy, depoliticisation, featured, free speech, government, grassroots, hate speech, HE policy, higher education, jo johnson, marketisation, media, mental health, neoliberalism, no platforming, politics, power, protest, racism, representation, state, student welfare, students, students' unions, transphobia, universities, university finance.

by Bradley Allsop

Over the last 8 years, higher education in the UK has been subject to some of the largest and most invasive reforms in its history, guided by a deliberate, neoliberal project with the aim of crafting a marketised sector. This has set a new bar for invasive reforms that is now extending into the murky realms of the ‘free speech’ debate, with recently departed universities minister Jo Johnson proposing the illogical and frankly dangerous step of imposing fines on universities whose students’ unions fail to support free speech on campus.

SOMETHING STINKS IN THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS (AND IT’S NOT JUST TOBY YOUNG)

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Boots, BPP, Carl Lygo, climate change, contraception, David Palfreyman, deforestation, degree awarding powers, Elizabeth Fagan, Equalities Act, featured, free schools, free speech, funding, government, HEFCE, higher education, HSBC, jo johnson, Katja Hall, marketisation, Martin Coleman, media, Michael Barber, Monisha Shah, NUS, office for students, OxCHEPS, politics, regulation, Rose Bruford College, Ruth Carlson, Simon Levine, Steve West, student representation, Surrey University, Toby Young, Tories, UWE Bristol.

by Robyn Banks

This week, the government took the turn of the year as an opportunity to quietly announce the makeup of the board of the Office for Students (OfS), the new higher education ‘market regulator’ set to replace the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Naturally, it didn’t go unnoticed, and much has been said about the selection of Toby Young, infamous Tory party supporter. His appointment and the makeup of the rest of the board shows the absurdity at the heart of the body Jo Johnson has created, and why it will struggle to be taken seriously.

WE CAN’T JUST WAIT FOR FREE EDUCATION – NCAFC WINTER CONFERENCE

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #FreeEdNOW, bigotry, boycott, conference, Cut the Rent, democratic education, demonstration, direct action, education workers, fascism, Free Education, free speech, GE17, HE policy, higher education, history, jeremy corbyn, KEF, Labour, Labour manifesto, left wing, living grants, local campaigns, marketisation, NCAFC, no platforming, nss, NSS Boycott, NUS, Picturehouse, Picturehouse strike, progressive taxation, protest, REF, Research and HE Bill, solidarity, strike action, student activism, student media, student movement, students, students' unions, tef, terfs, trans liberation, tuition fees, UCL, universities.

by Lewis Jarrad

On the 9th-10th December, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) put on its 2017 Winter Conference in Liverpool. Taking place less than a month after their national demonstration, which advocated for free education and universal living grants funded by taxing the rich, the conference was a chance for student activists across the UK to strategise and discuss where we can go next in the fight for a free and democratic education system. Campuses represented included Liverpool, Manchester, UCL, UAL, KCL, Warwick, Sheffield, Abertay, Oxford and Cambridge. As a first year UCL student who was involved in the national demo, I went along to learn more about NCAFC and how I could get more involved in the campaign.

THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged antifa, Casapound, class war, classism, context, criticism, Daniel Swift, debate, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, extremism, Ezra Pound, fascism, free speech, hate speech, intellectual, italian, Italy, Literary Hub, literature, LitHub, media, MSM, Mussolini, neo-fascism, no platform, normalisation, pepe, racism, response, Richard Spencer, Roberto Spada, Rome, ValigiaBlu, violence, Voltaire, Wu Ming Foundation.

by Alex Valente

Contains strong language.

If your opinion, if your ideology, if your personal mindset is that certain groups and communities of people are inferior to others, you do not deserve and will not be allowed to promote that idea. Fuck the notion of censorship, fuck the moderate, tolerant conversation, fuck the high road. Your ‘opinion’ denies the existence of a large portion of the world around you, and actively strives to suppress it. So you know what? Fuck you.Continue Reading

BILL MAHER: A JOKE

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged audience, bill maher, comedy, debate, free speech, history, host, humour, Ice Cube, John Oliver, joke, language, late night show, media, PC, politics, power, privilege, punchline, race, racism, Real Time, Samantha Bee, sarcasm, slur, Stephen Colbert, Symone Sanders, talk show, taste, Trevor Noah, US.

by Richard Worth

CW: discussion of racial slur

Twiglets, I have an unusual and likely unhealthy relationship with twiglets. Everything about them disgusts me. Their burnt and bitter flavour, their odd withered and gnarled appearance and the quantity in which I consume them. Likewise, I have an unusual and likely unhealthy relationship with Bill Maher and his show Real Talk.

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VATICAN’S REACTIONARY RESPONSE TO ITALY’S ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA MUST NOT BE TOLERATED

by Alessandra Arpaia

RUPERT READ IS NOT THE PEER THE GREEN PARTY NEEDS

By Robyn Banks

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

THE CALL FOR MEASURED DEBATE ON GRA IS DISINGENUOUS

FEES, FREE SPEECH AND FILIBUSTERING – A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAM GYIMAH MP

CHALLENGING MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE CAMPUS FREE SPEECH DEBATE

SOMETHING STINKS IN THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS (AND IT’S NOT JUST TOBY YOUNG)

WE CAN’T JUST WAIT FOR FREE EDUCATION – NCAFC WINTER CONFERENCE

THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

BILL MAHER: A JOKE

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