EDINBURGH FRINGE 2019 – PT 1

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Bait Theatre, BDSM, beach body, body positivity, Caitlin Moran, Carmina Masoliver, comedy, dance, daughter, DID, Edinburgh Fringe, featured, feminism, festival, IFS, improv, Jessica Edwards, Jessica Redstone, kit redstone, Lewys Holt, lines, Lizzo, Maisy Taylor, mother, Neil Chinneck, performance, Phrases, Rory Fleck-Byrne, shibari, Simone de Beauvoir, spoken word, summer, Tamsin Shasha, The Roaring Girls, theatre, TheSpace.

by Carmina Masoliver

Edinburgh Fringe festival seems to get bigger and bigger each year; there are hundreds of shows to choose from and the densely-packed programme can be difficult to decipher. Here we have briefly reviewed three distinct shows from the 2019 edition, dealing with the mind, the body, sexuality, relationships and gender.

WHY WAGES MATTER

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged benefits, cuts, decline, denmark, economy, featured, Ghent, housing, IFS, livelihood, pay gap, recession, salary, statistics, trade union, TUC, uk, unions, wages, welfare, workers.

by Edward Grierson

It goes without saying that the current wage situation in the UK is not good. Following the disastrous speculation on the banks’ behalf that led to the recession, real wages for UK workers fell by 10.4% from 2007-2015, a decline only matched by Greece. Even worse has been the combination of this wage drop with the continued pay gap between employees and the people who employ them: as of 2015, the salary of a UK CEO was nearly 130 times that of the average UK worker’s salary.

The reason why this is a concern, why we should be worried about falling wages, surely is obvious.Continue Reading

EDUCATION AND COLOUR: THE IMPORTANCE OF BME STUDENT COMMUNITIES

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #Oscarssowhite, #rhodesmustfall, academia, aspirations, black, black professorts, black students, BME, campus, Cecil Rhodes, Community, degree, diversity, education, ethnic, feminism, gender, IFS, inequality, minority, minority households, minority students, Omar Khan, Oxford, POC, Preventing Prevent, privatisation, race, racial inequality, racism, Runnymede Trust, safe space, scholarship, social platform, student, student loans, students, UEA, university, white, Why is my Curriculum so White?, Womanist Society.

by Candice Nembhard

From #oscarssowhite to #rhodesmustfall, a spotlight has been shone on the lack of diversity and positive representation for POC across numerous institutions. Although these discussions have been catalysed in online spheres, the implications of these hashtags reference the real experiences of silencing and downplaying the importance of solidarity among BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) people — particularly in student environments.

In 2015, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) conducted a study that suggested more BME students as opposed to White British students were enrolling in university — despite statistically ‘underperforming’ in academia. A general consensus made by researchers was that students from minority households have higher aspirations regarding education than their white counterparts, even with the increase made to tuition fees and the potential privatisation of student loans at hand.Continue Reading

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WHY WAGES MATTER

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