50 YEARS – HOW FAR HAVE WE REALLY COME?

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged Against The Law, bbc, capital, crime, decriminalisation of homosexuality, discrimination, gay capital, gay men, gay privilege, gay rights, hate crime, homophobia, inclusivity, LGBT+, lgbt+ rights, Marianna Valverde, media, media bias, misrepresentation, oppression, Owen Jones, Peckham, population, positivity, privilege, Richard Taulke-Johnson, sensationalism, sex, Sexual Offences Act, statistics, Stonewall, The Guardian, uk, universities, yougov, young people.

by Alex Powell

CW: mentions homophobia and homophobic abuse

Last week marked 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 entered into law, in the first step towards the decriminalisation of homosexuality. There’s been a great deal of coverage of this milestone in British media, including some brilliant, informative TV programming (I highly recommend the BBC’s drama ‘Against the Law’). But it is Owen Jones’s recent Guardian column ‘Hatred of LGBTQ people still infects society. It’s no time to celebrate’ that seems to have been most prominent. Jones’ arguments are certainly justified, but commentary like his risks misrepresenting the situation that now faces LGBT+ people in this country. It’s not all bad.

WE NEED TO HAVE THE AVIATION CONVERSATION

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged airmiles, airport, climate change, co2, cognitive dissonance, Eastern Daily Press, flight, Green Party, Martin Lukacs, Norfolk County Council, Norwich airport, Norwich City Council, plane stupid, The Guardian.

By Olivia Hanks

Like many people I know, I have felt vaguely guilty about flying for several years now, on an intellectual level. I knew it was bad for the environment, but I was living away from the UK for a while, which at the time seemed to serve as a sort of justification.

Recently, though, my response to this issue has become much more emotional, more gut-level. The widely used aphorism about needing three planets to support your lifestyle has slid into focus: we are stealing. Stealing resources from the poor, stealing the future from the unborn. The view implied by our government and our individual actions – that it’s all worth it for the sake of those £25 tickets to Croatia – is sickening if you think about it for long.Continue Reading

ENOUGH PESSIMISM ABOUT HE – A RESPONSE TO JIM DICKINSON

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, ceo, consumerism, customer service, direct action, fee rises, fossil free, government, higher education, House of Lords, ideology, Jim Dickinson, marketisation, national student survey, NSS Boycott, pessimism, politics, power, respect, student activism, student life, student mental health, student movement, student satisfaction, students, students' unions, teaching, tef, The Guardian, Tories, tuition fees, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university management, Vice Chancellors, writing.

by Lewis Martin

In a recent article for the Guardian, UEA SU CEO Jim Dickinson wrote about universities’ failure to produce anything satisfactory for its students, as well as the lack of transparency around how tuition fees are spent. Helpful though it is to point out the issues faced by the student movement, Dickinson fails to offer any type of remedy for them at any point, suggesting that cynical resignation is the only possible response.

‘UNREASONABLE AND ILLOGICAL’ – THE CONSEQUENCES OF CASUAL TEACHING CONTRACTS

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, casual contract, employment, fixed term, higher education, postgraduate, students, teaching, The Guardian, UCU, UEA, uk, unions, University of Warwick, Warwick Anti-Casualisation, zero hours contract.

by Rowan Gavin

One of the biggest and most poorly kept secrets in higher education – that many teaching staff are employed under terms more often associated with a Sports Direct factory – has been breaking into mainstream media attention lately. To get an inside perspective on this casualisation of teaching work, and an idea of the scale and nature of the problem both locally and nationally, I spoke to three members of teaching staff who have worked on casual contracts in English universities in recent years. Two were employed at UEA, and one at Warwick University, where they are a part of the campaign group Warwick Anti-Casualisation (WAC).

The Guardian

50 YEARS – HOW FAR HAVE WE REALLY COME?

WE NEED TO HAVE THE AVIATION CONVERSATION

ENOUGH PESSIMISM ABOUT HE – A RESPONSE TO JIM DICKINSON

‘UNREASONABLE AND ILLOGICAL’ – THE CONSEQUENCES OF CASUAL TEACHING CONTRACTS

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