WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti black, antifa, BAME, barr, black, black lives matter, burundi, CHAZ, Donald Trump, featured, george floyd, iraq, ken cuccinelli, neoliberal, police brutality, police violence, policing, portland, poverty, prison, race, racism, reparations, responsibility to protect, suicide, Syria, system, uk.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide

I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concurring factors: the hypocrisy and northern hemisphere-bias underpinning global governance, and the distinct shift towards authoritarianism that we are currently seeing in Trump’s America; the latter possibly justifying intervention under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The Trump administration’s current bent towards authoritarianism is not mere hyperbole, nor the incendiary Twitter-ranting of an orange mad man, but a dark and extremely worrying leap towards the kind of repression that characterizes Assad’s Syria, or the recent kidnappings in Iraq, wherein those protesting against the regime are bundled into unmarked cars and whisked away into the night. Continue Reading

NATURE OR NURTURE

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anomie, crime, criminal, death penalty, deterrent, Emile Durkheim, ethics, featured, felony, Feltham, HMOY, jail, justice, law, norms, prison, prisoner, privilege, reform, report, Robert K Merton, schools, self harm, sociology, suicide, terror.

by David Breakspear

CW: mentions suicide, self-harm

In my previous article ‘Consequence of Conscience’, I mention a work titled Suicide by sociologist Émile Durkheim. In Suicide, Durkheim introduced us to the term ‘anomie’, suggesting it to be a breakdown of social norms resulting in a lack of standards and values. He also used this same term and definition to explain a reason as to why some members of society embark on a path of crime or ‘deviance’ – straying from the norm. Durkheim saw deviance as an inevitable part of life which is needed for innovation and change.Continue Reading

CONSEQUENCE OF CONSCIENCE

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged crime, criminal, death penalty, deterrent, Emile Durkheim, ethics, featured, felony, jail, justice, law, prison, prisoner, Priti Patel, reform, suicide, terror.

by David Breakspear

CW: mentions suicide

Recently appointed Home Secretary Priti Patel stated in an interview that she wants criminals to “literally feel terror” at the thought of committing crime. In my opinion, to make a statement like that shows how far removed from reality some of our politicians are.

In America, a lot of the States still use the death penalty. I would say that is the ultimate consequential terror for anyone to face. In the UK, the final execution took place as recent as 1964; in fact, the death penalty in the UK was only, totally completely abolished in 1998.

If the sceptre of losing one’s own life is not enough of a consequence to stop breaking the law, then what is the Home Secretary’s version of ‘terror’?Continue Reading

SAM FENDER – REVIVING RADICAL POLITICS WITHIN INDIE MUSIC

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Ananya Wilson Bhattacharya, arts, featured, indie music, music, politics, Sam Fender, suicide.

by Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

tw: mentions of suicide

In recent years, the indie-rock revival has gained traction across the UK, spurning artists such as Circa Waves, The Magic Gang, Sea Girls and countless other bands and solo artists with catchy, accessible lyrics and melodies against guitar-heavy backgrounds. I will fully admit to being an indie fan at heart; these artists generally make up a large proportion of my ‘heavy rotation’ on Spotify at any given moment. But the genre can’t always be credited with much lyrical originality, or indeed, with much engagement with the world beyond the singers’ own personal dilemmas and often relentless self-deprecation.

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NotEnough, Ayeshah Lalloo, counselling, david richardson, featured, Jess Fairweather, Jonathan Walker, mental health, Nick Sadler, norwich, solidarity, Sophie Smith, stress, Student Support Services, student welfare, students, suicide, Theo Brennan Hulme, UEA, UEA SU, universities, WeWillBeHeard, young people.

By Jess O’Dwyer

Content warning: mentions suicide

Going to university is a challenging time. For many it is their first time away from home with full independence. New students are presented with countless opportunities and choices, many of which will shape and change them as people. For people with mental health issues, however, this challenge is often exacerbated.

PRIVATISE(D)EVASTATION

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged crime, education, ethics, featured, justice, liberty, morality, prison, prison reform, privatisation, reflective writing, reoffending, self harm, social norms, society, suicide.

By David Breakspear

Cw: suicide, self-harm

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

Once again, we witness more self-inflicted deaths in custody routinely followed by lessons not being learned, recommendations being ignored, and worst of all — even in cases where an inquest jury has delivered a unanimous decision on a failure to provide an individual with a duty of care — no action being taken against those who failed to provide the care that loved ones and families of those in prison have a right to expect.Continue Reading

WHAT IS PRISON?

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged drug abuse, drug policy, drug trafficking, drug use, featured, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, HMP, ministry of justice, MoJ, prison, prison reform, psychoactive substances, self harm, suicide, the bromley briefings, the prison reform trust, violence.

By David Breakspear

Prison – noun – a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
One of the Ministry of Justices’ four strategic priorities is “A prison and probation service that reforms offenders” (Ministry of Justice).

Number one is definitely the case, but what about number two? Well, based on the latest government figures in relation to self-harm, violence, and suicides, I would suggest that the Ministry of Justice is not delivering on one of its key strategic priorities.Continue Reading

RATS TO RICHES

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Community, crime, criminology, education, expression, featured, HMP Norwich, hope, justice, Men's Shed, Nicola Marfleet, norfolk, norwich, outreach, prison, progress, reform, report, social media, suicide, uk, Woodhill.

by David Breakspear

CW: suicide

“Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time!”. In terms of reform and progress within our penal system, the proverb is about as much use as eating soup with a fork. For a start, how would you know?

Unfortunately, we do need prisons. Ever since Eve – reportedly – ate the forbidden fruit from the garden of Eden, crime has been in existence in human narratives. Crime, either directly or indirectly, affects us all; victims of crime or the family/loved ones/friends of the victim, perpetrator of crime, or, yet again, the family/friends/loved ones of the perpetrators. You may even pay higher insurance premiums due to crime. Crime affects all, therefore, crime is the responsibility of all, especially the prison system.Continue Reading

FUCK FUTURE FINANCE – THE FRIGHTENING REALITY OF PRIVATE STUDENT LOANS

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, advertising, campaigning, casualisation, corporations, cost of living, cycle of debt, featured, finance, Future Finance, government, higher education, interest rates, loan sharks, maintenance, marketisation, mental health, morality, NCAFC, payday loans, predatory loans, private landlords, private student loans, rent hikes, student activism, student debt, student finance, student loans, suicide, trade unions, tuition fees, UCU, UCU strike, unethical, university, working class.

By Robyn Banks

CW: mentions suicide.

Sometimes targeted adverts reveal to you more than you wanted to know. I’ve recently been experiencing facebook ads for Future Finance, a company that offers loans of up to £40,000 to students, with an interest rate of 17.45% APR for all the time that you’re studying. To put that in perspective, if you borrowed £7000 over 5 years, you’d have repaid a stonking £11,223 by the time you’ve paid it off. This eye watering example reveals both the current state of Higher Education financing and a frightening future that is increasingly intruding on the present.

REVIEW: 4.48 PSYCHOSIS

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged 4.48 Psychosis, depression, featured, Hammersmith, opera, Philip Venables, play, Royal Opera House, Sarah Kane, suicide, The Lyric, The Lyric in Hammersmith, theatre.

by Carmina Masoliver

When I saw that 4.48 Psychosis was on at The Lyric in Hammersmith, I jumped at the chance to see it. When it was first there in 2016, I wasn’t in the country, and having studied the play for my university dissertation, I am always keen to view a new interpretation of the text (all those I’ve seen thus far haven’t warranted writing about).

For those who haven’t come across the play before, it was playwright Sarah Kane’s final play before her suicide in in 1999. For this reason, and that fact the its focus is on the experience of clinical depression, some, such as Michael Billington, have considered the text a kind of “ 75-minute suicide note”. However, it contains many truths that most people would be able to relate to, whether suffering from depression or not.

suicide

WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

NATURE OR NURTURE

CONSEQUENCE OF CONSCIENCE

SAM FENDER – REVIVING RADICAL POLITICS WITHIN INDIE MUSIC

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

WHAT IS PRISON?

FUCK FUTURE FINANCE – THE FRIGHTENING REALITY OF PRIVATE STUDENT LOANS

REVIEW: 4.48 PSYCHOSIS

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