WELL-BEING FIRST: THINKING HEALTHY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, action, apathy, Boris Johnson, Brexit, conservative, coronavirus, covid, covid19, crisis, featured, health, Infection Control Today, jeremy corbyn, Joseph Stiglitz, left, liberal, media, mental health, MSM, NHS, NPD, PPE, psychology, Tory, Trump, uk, well-being, wellbeing.

by Sunetra Senior

A couple of weeks ago we were told of the extent of the Tory government’s negligence during a time of intense international crisis. They disregarded important information provided by advisory committees at critical moments as well as the crucial COBRA Meetings themselves, which are specifically held to ensure strong leadership at times of national emergency. According to the article in The Times, Boris’ earlier inaction has resulted in the number of deaths reaching six figures with the estimated mortality predicted to be 400,000. Of course, in addition to patently disregarding hundreds of thousands of lives, Johnson’s administration has also put the physical health of millions at risk with the virus running uncontrolled throughout the population for a whole month between 24th Feb when the recorded number of deaths skyrocketed, and the announcement of effective lockdown measures in mid-March.Continue Reading

‘DODGY BUT STABLE’: BRINGING BACK THE PROGRESSIVE PUNCH

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abuse, action, alliance, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, centrism, Chamberlain, Change UK, Contrapoints, democracy, direct action, electability, election, EU, Europe, featured, gaslighting, islamophobia, jeremy corbyn, left, LibDem, liberal, miliband, Natalie Wynne, NHS, no deal, Parliament, progressive, Trump, vote.

by Sunetra Senior

A news-based long read of the darkening climate under Boris Johnson, and consequent examination of the solutions.

NB: this piece was written before the announcement of the suspension of parliament. The call to progressive action is of the utmost urgency.

Shock, horror!! Boris Johnson is Prime Minister, we are on the verge of a catastrophic No-Deal Brexit, and Trump’s ego is bigger than ever before. Prior to this, the Scandinavian Peninsula, or the magical lands of social democracy and hygge, saw the rise of a nationalist group in Finland. There were also the New Zealand shootings in a show of Islamophobia, so horrific, that the country’s PM moved to ban militarised weapons practically overnight. So, amidst this caustic circus, where is the progressive clout? Given the gradual upheaval of the moral development of society, it’s apt to return to a timeless saying: ‘The personal is the political.’Continue Reading

THE MYTH OF THE MILLENNIAL

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged avocado toast, bloggers, clickbait, Community, conservative, cp, diverse, educated, entitlement, featured, generation, generation y, Instagram, internet, labels, liberal, millennials, myth, narcissistic, pet peeve, pm, political correctness, racist, satire, socialist, student debt, traits, work.

by Jonathan Lee

Ten Things Every Successful Social Justice Blogger Does.
Exasperated Writer Was About to Give Up, What Happens Next Will Have You In Tears!
The Five Worst Millennial Clickbait Headlines That You Just Won’t Believe.

Horrific isn’t it.

I was recently asked what my biggest pet peeve is about the way people talk about my generation. Perhaps the phrase pet peeve is one of my pet peeves. Maybe the fact that even the words – pet peeve – make me cringe, may say something about me and my reluctant membership of Generation Y.Continue Reading

NORWICH GOES BLINDLY TO RED

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Adrian Dearnley, conservative, county council, defection, general election, george nobbs, Green Party, Isle of Wight, Labour, liberal, Liberal Democrat, libraries, local elections, norfolk, Norfolk County Council, norfolk greens, Norfolk Labour, norwich, norwich green party, progressive, public transport, roads, social care, UKIP.

by Joe Burns

In the county council elections that took place last week, Labour unquestionably took Norwich. They won twelve of the thirteen wards in the city. Although it is good news that the Conservatives continue to play no part of governance in the city, it is a sad day for true progressives. Voter turnout was a shameful 34.51 percent and the voting system we have means that even though more people voted against the Tories than for them in the county, they won the most seats. Obviously, as Richard Bearman (Norwich Green Party) says, we need a proportional representation system, but that is a matter for another time.

At county level, the Conservatives had a predictably great day at the expense of UKIP, whose past supporters seem to favour the dishonesty and intolerance of the current Tory government. Indeed, the views of many UKIP supporters have now been adopted by the Tories, most notable their stance on the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

Although The Green Party won four seats in the 2013 county council elections (all in Norwich), the defection of Adrian Dearnley to the Conservatives late last year meant that Norwich Green Party were left with three seats to defend in this most recent county council election. Unfortunately, voters seem to have turned away in favour of Labour.Continue Reading

WHAT IS CENSORSHIP? BOOKHIVEGATE, FOR FUCK’S SAKE

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national and tagged ban, book, book hive, Bookhive, censor, censorship, free speech, liberal, Michael Gove, norwich, prawns, Snoopers Charter, Susan Hill, The Art of the Deal, the sun, theresa may, Tianamen Square, Trump, UEA.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: Strong language, sexual assault, Nazi imagery, hazardous levels of idiocy. The following is the author’s opinion.

So this is happening. Now, like most people, I’m obviously not in favour of censorship. Or state-sanctioned drone strikes firing missiles entirely filled with out-of-date shrimp, for that matter. I believe everyone has the right to say whatever the hell they like, and everyone else has the right to punch them in the face if that speech advocates fucking genocide. Hello again, assorted term-searching wank sandwiches.

But sometimes, sometimes, I find myself out back filling a hollowed-out Hellfire with 2014’s prawns, because sometimes the story is a respected author picking a fight with a bookshop she’s apparently never been to because they don’t stock books by some random orange fascist cunt in a different country, and that, somehow, is ‘censorship.’Continue Reading

WHAT SHOULD THE LEFT DO TO COUNTER THE RISE OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT?

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Adam Smith, America, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, Donald Trump, idealism, identity politics, invisible hand, jeremy corbyn, left wing, liberal, liberal culture, liberals, media, Pauline Hanson, political right, pragmatism, President, refugees, right wing, rise, society, stability, syrian refugees, the man in the high castle, working class.

by Faizal Nor Izham

We live in turbulent times. Just months after Britain decided to leave the EU, as well as the recurring popularity of Australian anti-immigration pundit Pauline Hanson, it was now America’s turn to tread down a similar right-wing path — this time by electing everyone’s favourite media darling, Donald Trump, as President.

As President. Of the United States. Oh how far we’ve sunk.

But is there actually a rational reason for wanting to elect a racist, scare-mongering serial womaniser out of sheer desperation of the times we’re living in? Or maybe there are other things everyday people are getting fed up of as well. Perhaps people have even become jaded with liberal culture as well. Nowadays it is often a shallow parody of its former self. It’s often hollow, intellectually-sterile, idealistic, immobile and sometimes even commercialised in the media.Continue Reading

SOME WORRIES, MATE: THE ONGOING AUSTRALIAN ELECTION

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alternative vote, american politics, austerity, Australia, australian elections, australian politics, AV, british politics, crocodile vote, elections, far right, federal election, First Australians, first past the post, greens, immigration, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor party, liberal, Malcom Turnball, microparties, nationalist, Nick Xenophon, One Nation party, Parliament, political system, protest vote, Queensland, racism, southern hemisphere, Tony Abbot, voting age, voting system.

by Zoe Harding

Who’s the Australian prime minister?

Don’t worry if you don’t know. In addition to Australia being very far away, it’s rarely covered by either the British or American media unless someone’s found an entertaining new way of being killed by the wildlife. Even in the digital age, Australia is culturally and politically isolated from the Anglophone western world, marginalised by the sensationalised nightmare of American politics and Anglo-American cultural dominance.

The other reason you might not know is because Australian politics is a turbulent sea of leadership challenges and political manoeuvring. Since 2007 five different prime ministers have been in office — Labor’s Kevin Rudd from 2007 to 2010, was deposed by Julia Gillard, who led a different Labor government until 2013 when Rudd pushed her out again. The infighting was one of the reasons for the rise of the infamous Tony Abbot later in 2013, who ruled for two years before being booted out of office by Malcom Turnbull, the current Liberal Prime Minister, in September 2015.

Last week, a federal election began across the country to elect all 226 members of the Australian parliament.Continue Reading

LONE-WOLVES AND STATE WARRIORS

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged another angry voice, bicuriosity, Bill O'Reilly, britain first, church, daesh, drug abuse, equal marriage, gun, gun control, heterosexist, heterosexual, homelessness, homophobia, individualism, islamophobia, Jo Cox, left wing, LGBT+, liberal, lone wolf, lone wolves, marriage, media, mental health, monogamy, murdoch, Muslim, Orlando, Orlando shooting, Owen Jones, queer, race, religion, right wing, same sex, scapegoating, sex work, sexuality, state, suicide, xenophobia.

by Joshua Ekin

Content warning: mentions suicide, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, mass shooting, murder

A massacre in an LGBT+ space, by a Muslim, with a legal gun, and alleged connections to Daesh. It’s easy to see how contemporary American anxieties converge in the political aftermath of the Orlando shooting. The media response to this — the largest massacre in modern American history — exposes how truth is controlled by the present political regime.

For those who do not spend their days fretting about radical social discourse, homophobia can be difficult to define. Before Obama legalised same-sex marriage federally, it dominated the media conversation, establishing rights as the fulcrum of group empowerment. While the LGBT+ movement focused on this, statistics revealed that LGBT+ kids across the world were entering sex-work and committing suicide at an alarming rate. If such statistics were ever mentioned, it was to bolster marriage as the unequivocal endowment being denied to the LGBT+ community. The institution Australian Marriage Equality claims that the ‘higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness, early school leaving, conflict with peers and parents and suicide ideation [are] all directly related to the discrimination.’ Marx might have called this ‘bridal false-consciousness.’Continue Reading

RODRIGO DUTERTE: PRO LGBT, PROLETARIAT DICTATORSHIP

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged asia, authoritarian, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, Bangsamoro Basic Law, Cebu, Christianity, crime, Davoa, death penalty, decentralisation, dictatorship, elections, federalism, Islam, leadership, LGBT+, liberal, Luzon, Manila, Mindanao, multicultural, multiculturalism, National People's Army in Mindanao, Philippines, President, religion, Rodrigo Duterte, socialism, Visayas.

by Julian Ignacio Canlas

‘I don’t care if I go to hell as long as the people I serve will live in paradise.’
–Rodrigo Duterte

Disclaimer: mentions rape

Rodrigo Duterte’s personal politics is defined by a confusing blend of liberal and authoritarian beliefs. His politics have certainly elicited a wide variety of reactions, capturing the imagination of even the Western media outlets through racist depictions of international politics — or not. Even more varied and stranger are his supporters, ranging from religious leaders to the LGBT community, to sex workers and farmers. So how exactly did the new president of the Philippines, dubbed ‘The Punisher’, manage to enthrall the masses?

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged capitalism, compassion, conservative party, conservative party conference, conservatives, crisis, david cameron, economics, general election, george osborne, immigration, liberal, liberal politics, politics, poverty, prejudice, progress, refugees, rhetoric, unemployment.

by Natasha Senior

When George Osborne took to the stage at the Conservative party conference, he had an air of confidence that spoke volumes. He tapped into a sense that has been palpable for a while now, the widely held belief that he is the saviour of the British economy. Soaked with ambition, he painted for us his bold and vibrant vision for Britain, creating a northern powerhouse and putting the working, taxpaying people at the heart of his plans. He decreed his party the builders of Britain and the only true party of labour whilst unapologetically championing his more liberal politics. Then as the applause rolled in, showering him with reverence and adoration, the next five years unfolded in front of me and I could see this man winning the 2020 general election. The thought of it made me feel sick to my stomach.Continue Reading

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WELL-BEING FIRST: THINKING HEALTHY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

‘DODGY BUT STABLE’: BRINGING BACK THE PROGRESSIVE PUNCH

THE MYTH OF THE MILLENNIAL

WHAT IS CENSORSHIP? BOOKHIVEGATE, FOR FUCK’S SAKE

WHAT SHOULD THE LEFT DO TO COUNTER THE RISE OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT?

SOME WORRIES, MATE: THE ONGOING AUSTRALIAN ELECTION

LONE-WOLVES AND STATE WARRIORS

RODRIGO DUTERTE: PRO LGBT, PROLETARIAT DICTATORSHIP

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE PARTY

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