NATIONALISM AS A TOOL FOR PROGRESSION

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged cornish, cornwall, devolution, elitism, ethnostate, featured, independence, Kurd, land back, nationalism, onen hag oll, palestine, patriotism, refugee, refugees welcome, Rojava, Scotland, socialism, trespass, Wales.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Refugees Welcome” is a phrase commonly seen on placards at demonstrations held by the recently revitalised Cornish independence movement. Sometimes paired with other phrases such as “No More Second Homes”, “Fuck Yuppies” and “Tories Out”, the centrality of the statement “Refugees Welcome” at the forefront of the Cornish nationalism movement clearly flies in the face of conventionally liberal or left-wing wisdom, which automatically posits nationalism as right-wing and pernicious. We should instead recognise that “nationalism” doesn’t necessarily equate to ethno-nationalism, and that in parroting anti-nationalist rhetoric, we are likely regurgitating colonial propaganda. Anti-colonial movements fought for a collective nationalism defined by independence. Nationalism, then, cannot automatically be dismissed as a negative phenomenon.

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, BTEC, class, classism, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

After the government’s U-turn on GCSE and A-level moderation, widespread celebration has broken out among student and teaching communities alike. But, drowned out by the cheering, a yet unsolved problem remains: the injustice and uncertainty for those taking BTECs, who have been left behind in the race to secure places at chosen further and higher education institutions.

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, class, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, free school meals, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, Kensington, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

By Kasper Hassett

Last week, young people across Scotland reached the end of years of schooling and were presented with their final grades. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, these results were based not on a summer exam series, but on predicted grades from teachers and subsequent moderation by examining bodies. As many as a quarter of grades were lowered, hitting working-class pupils in poorer regions and schools the hardest. Further south, A level and GCSE students are still awaiting similarly-calculated results, due for release on the 13th and 20th of August respectively. But, with individual pupils’ futures at the mercy of wildly varying school averages, the most disadvantaged students are facing even more barriers to higher education.

TRANS WOODSTOCK

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AOC, Casey Explosion, Chuck Tingle, Contrapoints, Dan Olson, defunding, Donkey Kong, Ellen Murray, featured, fundraiser, funds, Graham Linehan, Grant Kirkhope, Harry Brewis, hbomberguy, Jim Sterling, John Romero, lottery, Lyndsay Ellis, Mara Wilson, Mermaids, Natalye Wynn, Oliver Thorn, press, Rebecca Hineman, Scotland, stream, Susie Green, terfs, trans, trans rights, videogames, Youtube.

by Zoe Harding

This is the face of a man who’s entirely unsure if what he’s experiencing is real.

It started with this. Well, okay, it started with this, which itself was just the latest flex of the UK’s weirdly obsessive and powerful transphobia lobby, personified by eh-alright-but-his-work-is-aging-fast comedy writer Graham Linehan. Plenty of people were annoyed or upset by the campaign of email-writing and general loud airing of concerns that led to the National Lottery pulling £500,000 worth of funding from Mermaids, especially given that the reporting of the issue in the Great British Press was… kinda shite.Continue Reading

VOTES AT 16: IT’S TIME FOR TORIES TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged awareness, conservartives, elections, engagement, england, featured, local election, norfolk, Northern Ireland, Norwich City Council, politicians, Scotland, vote, votes at 16, voting, voting age, Wales, welsh government.

by James Anthony

In January 2018, it was announced that sixteen and seventeen year-olds in Wales will be given the right to vote in their local elections, under proposals set out by the Welsh Labour government. Along with Scotland, where votes at sixteen is already reality, Welsh policy will now be at odds with England and Northern Ireland where the voting age for any sort of election is eighteen. The idea that someone who is exactly the same age and has just as many years in education as another can be denied the right to vote based on location is extremely unfair. Perhaps it’s time the Conservative government reconsider their position on the voting age.

If the national government are seemingly ok with this being a regional disparity, why not allow it to take place in areas where there is clearly a desire for it? Just under two years ago, Norwich City Council voted unanimously for a proposal which asked for Norwich to be used as a possible ‘pilot area’ for allowing 16 and 17 year-olds to participate in local government elections. Disappointingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, I couldn’t find any official response to this request from the government although if it exists, I suspect it would be in essence – ‘piss off’. Continue Reading

I AM LUCKY

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alien, belonging, children, choice, economy, familiarity, featured, home, journey, migration, personal, perspective, privilege, risk, Scotland, travel, Uganda.

by Stu Lucy

This week I’d like to offer something a little different. Rather than an article gunning for the Western neoliberal establishment and its detrimental effects on a particular aspect of African society, I would like to take a more pensive stance on an issue that many of us, to me at least, seem to have assimilated and normalised into our daily lives. I hope this article provokes a thought towards those in ever more increasing numbers that lose their lives in a desperate attempt to achieve something more than the lot they’ve been given.Continue Reading

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged confession, depression, disability, ehlers danlos sydrome, healthcare, life, mental health, mental health stigma, mental illness, norwich, personal, Perspectives, PTSD, royal national orthopaedic hospital, Scotland, uk.

by Alice Thomson

So much has happened in only a few months, for me personally as well as globally – let’s be honest, the the past year’s events in the United States of America alone of the past year would be tough to sum up in a 1,000 word article. I don’t think I could do justice to the topic. As this is my first article in a while, I thought I’d focus on what I’ve been up to, to give you an idea of the reasons for my absence the last few months.Continue Reading

AN INDEPENDENT CATALONIA: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST ACCOUNT

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged authoritarianism, Brexit, Catalonia, EU, Generalitat, independence, Kosovo, nation, national sovereignity, politics, Puigdemont, Quebec, Rajoy, referendum, Scotland, social contructivism, solidarity, support, Wendt.

by Oliver Steward

September 27th 2017 will be remembered as a Day of Independence. A day of celebration, but also a day of possible mourning. I rejoice and also remain vigilant at the coming days since the Catalonian government’s decision to declare independence. Some would view this as a failure of democracy, and of politics more generally, to achieve a peaceful alternative that would recognise the cultural diversity of Catalonia within Spain. The compromise option would have seen Catalonia keep its devolved status, but within the context of Spain. The model that Quebec and Scotland have already taken.Continue Reading

THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Brexit, Catalan, identity, independence, India, iraq, ISIS, KRG, Kurdistan, nationalism, police brutality, politics, referendum, Scotland, South Sudan, spain, Syria, turkey, war.

By Gunnar Eigener

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

Napoleon BonaparteContinue Reading

THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, Amber Rudd, austerity, Brexit, Britan, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, coverage, democracy, exit poll, forecast, general election, greens, jeremy corbyn, John Bartley, Labour, leadership, libdems, manifesto, media, MSM, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Norwich Radical, paul nuttall, people, Plaid Cymru, PLP, politics, poll, prediction, propaganda, Scotland, snp, theresa may, Tim Farron, tony blair, Tory, uk, UKIP, vote, voter, voting.

by The Norwich Radical

The following piece was created, compiled and co-written by a number of Norwich Radical contributors, across a number of locations, devices, and even countries. We followed the exit polls, the first counts, the calculations and predictions as they became available across the media. We do not have any inside information, but have combined our experience and information during the night to produce this article in time for the morning readers.

There is no final result confirmed at the time of publication, but it has been confirmed that we have a hung parliament, as it is mathematically impossible for any party to claim an overall majority.

Scotland

NATIONALISM AS A TOOL FOR PROGRESSION

by Sarah Edgcumbe

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

by Kasper Hassett

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

By Kasper Hassett

TRANS WOODSTOCK

VOTES AT 16: IT’S TIME FOR TORIES TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS

I AM LUCKY

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

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