A MARMALADE SANDWICH FOR NO ONE

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged charity, colonialism, death, featured, funeral, grief, lizzy, mourning, paddington, performance, qeii, Queen, queen elizabeth, queenie, queue, republican, royal, royal family.

by Anonymous

Hamlet, Act I, Part V
“So the whole ear of Denmark
Is, by a forgèd process of my death,
Rankly abused.”

Throughout her long reign, the late Queen Elizabeth II was heralded as a symbol of continuity, permanence, stoicism and unity. After all, what is the point of a British monarch if not to be an ambulatory synecdoche? And if this synecdoche remained enigmatic and silent, all the better for her to serve as a vessel filled with whatever her people chose.

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WE LIVE IN A CORRUPT AND VIOLENT STATE – JOHNSON’S RESIGNATION WON’T CHANGE THAT

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, Boris Johnson, british empire, Covid-19, david cameron, fascism, featured, fields of wheat, Gil Scott Heron, homophobia, Johnson resignation, keir starmer, Labour, metropolitan police, Michael Gove, Nato, police, police violence, politics, pride, protest music, queen elizabeth, racism, RMT, security prosperity respect, theresa may, Tories, trade unions, transphobia, uk.

By Rowan Gavin

At long last, the Johnson juggernaut has run out of road. The Bohnson’s repeated scandals, criminal convictions, outright racism and transphobia were not enough to unseat him; in the end all it took was a few opportunistic cronies seeing a chance to pull their knives. Et tu, Gove?

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