ENGLAND FOOTBALL FANS BACK TO OLD (HOMOPHOBIC) WAYS IN PORTUGAL

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Brexit, culture, decorum, discrimination, england, Europe, fans, featured, FIFA, football, homophobia, hooligan, human rights, media, othering, portugal, soccer, tommy robinson, travel, UEFA, UEFA Nations League, violence, warning, world cup.

by Jonathan Lee

After the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, England football fans had enjoyed a slightly improved reputation internationally for behaving themselves a bit better at away games in Europe. This illusion was shattered last week in Portugal for all the world to see, as boozy lads in shorts and polos attacked locals with bottles, wrecked cars, and clashed with police on the streets of Porto. It turns out that, without Russian ultras and law enforcement to keep them in line, England’s lads-on-tour stag party of intolerance and imperialist nostalgia is just as present in the travelling fan culture as it always has been. Embedded homophobia, a staple of the hooligan culture of old, also reared its ugly head again in Portugal with some England fans feeling unsafe among their own supporters.

“I experienced more homophobia in 3 hours here than I did in 3 weeks in Russia,” said Joe White, an English football fan and co-founder of LGBT+ supporters group Three Lions Pride. “And this has all come from England fans” he added. “LGBT+ is clearly not welcome.”

MASS TOURISM: CITIES IN BAD FAITH

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Barcelona, Catalonia, cities, Costa del Sol, fruit farming, fruitourism, mass tourism, spain, sustainable tourism, tourism, tourism industry, travel.

by Leo Quick

Appellations can sometimes be crucial. To say that the UK is a democracy is to forget that it is a liberal democracy. In just the same way, it is lacking to say that the Costa del Sol profits from tourism, when really it profits from mass tourism. The mass changes everything, indicating a mass influx of tourists and a corresponding frenzy of mass consumption in the destination. In fact the ‘mass’ is a fairly recent styling, whereas the word ‘tourism’ has a lineage travelling back to the Ancients. It comes from the Greek ‘tornos’ which denoted the lathe used to inscribe a circumference, the same root as ‘turn’, and indeed the first recorded tourists seem to have been medieval noblemen setting off on treks before eventually turning back to the estate.

THREE LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arts, berlin, book, Carmen Boullosa, carmen maria machado, Chloe Aridjis, cuba, featured, identity, latin american, Latinx, Law and Order, magical realism, Mexico, mexico heritage, novel, overview, personal, peter bush, queer, review, romance, self, short story, travel, women writers, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

On a recent trip to Mexico, I decided to take with me three books by authors of Latin American heritage, including two of Mexican background, and one Cuban. All were women. Aside from eating the most delicious chimichangas, learning about the ancient Mayan ruins, and climbing up the Ixmoja part of the Nohoch Mul, I spent a lot of my time reading these authors by the sea with a strawberry daiquiri. Within just one week I had nearly consumed them all and discovered a new love of Latin American writing.Continue Reading

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE! RUSSIA WELCOMES ENGLAND FANS WITH OPEN ARMS

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged animals, Championshipè, culture, daily mail, decorum, discrimination, england, fans, featured, FIFA, football, human rights, media, othering, Russia, Russian, Sergei Skripal, soccer, travel, violence, warning, world cup.

by Jonathan Lee

You would be forgiven for thinking that any England football fan who decides to follow their team to the 2018 FIFA World Cup must be either crazy or a hooligan looking for trouble. UK Police Chiefs, senior MPs, sports experts, and – most perniciously – the British press, have all issued sombre pronouncements warning of the dangers awaiting any English football fan foolish enough to brave the shady hinterland of Mother Russia.Continue Reading

WE ARE EUROPE AND REMAIN SO

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged agriculture, Article 50, Brexit, Britain, british empire, citizens, class, education, EHIC, EU membership, Europe, european, european life, fair play, featured, mobile phones, mobile roaming, monarchy, NHS, opinion, personal, public services, travel, uk.

by Kelvin Smith

On the eve of the EU Referendum I published a piece, A European Life, that concluded: “My whole life has been lived in the context of this complex and sometimes conflicted continent and whatever the result of the referendum tomorrow, I am just one of very many British people who are not about to leave Europe. We are Europe.” Now, one year into the Article 50 period, one year from the deadline date of 29th March 2019, has anything changed?Continue Reading

ON IMMIGRATION 1. LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, Blair, Chicago, choice, Clinton, colonialism, conflict, economic migrant, economy, featured, free market, germany, globalisation, history, Irish, italian, migrant, migration, national socialism, New York, on immigration, risk, Third Way, totalitarianism, travel, work.

by Stu Lucy

Last time we met I penned a reflective piece that acknowledged not only my privilege but also the de facto situation of millions of people across the planet, not least in Africa, forced to make the difficult decision to leave all they know behind, hoping for a better life in alien and often hostile lands many thousand of miles away. I’d like now to rewind to the very beginning of that process to try and suggest why it is so many end up making such a choice.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

SORRY, ARE YOU A TRAVELLER?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged African American, american deep south, antigypsyism, anxiety, between the lines, Brexit, Commission for Racial Equality, conservative, depression, discrimination, ellesmere port, gipsies, GRT, gyppo, gypsy, irish traveller, johnny delaney, little england, mainstream media, Marc Willers, media bias, mental health, mental wellbeing, Muslims, prejudice, racial equality, Romani, travel, traveller, Trevor Phillips.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: article mentions antigypsyism and racism

“The Gypsy and Traveller community complain that they don’t get enough media attention, but crime watch is on TV every week.”

This was the name of a team at a pub quiz I attended in Oxford recently. When it was read aloud, half the pub laughed and jeered. The other half remained silent, either through complicity or complete indifference. No one challenged the offending team, no one called out, no one made a disapproving noise. When the woman behind the bar saw my apparent discomfort, she asked:

“Sorry, are you a Traveller?”

Unsure whether she was apologising for the hate speech coming through the pub’s speaker system, or for the actual ethnicity itself, I answered:

“Yes I am.”Continue Reading

WALKING THROUGH THE ART IN CÀDIZ

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Abisal, Ana Torralaba Loyo, artistic freedom, arts, Baluarte de Santa Catalina y Castillo, Carmen Santonja, Cádiz, commission, ECCO: Espacio de Cultura Contemporánea, exhibition, feminism, gallery space, Gloria Garrastazul, Gloria Van Aerssen, independent artists, Lucía Paniagua, message, Mirvia Aranda Marín, patriarchy, patronage, personal, political, Reciclar Arte, representation, review, spain, travel, Un Metro Cuadrado, visual art, work.

by Carmina Masoliver

When I went to Cádiz, I had planned to do little else but lay on its beaches, swim, and eat good food. Yet, I still wanted to explore the area to see what else it had to offer, and it was on a walk to the park that I stumbled upon some of the city’s fine art exhibitions.Continue Reading

MAKE PUNK VENUES PERIOD ACCESSIBLE

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged #WomeninMusic, arts, bathroom, creative criticism, cycle, diary, DIY, female bodies, gender inclusive, genders, gig, Hard Times, knickers, menstrual cup, menstruation, music, period, personal, pub, punk, satire, share, Ska, toilet, tour, travel, underwear, venue, womb, women.

by Sara Harrington

CW: graphic imagery, menstruation

Wads of tissue swaddle the gushed gusset of my soon to be late underwear. DIY panty-lining for a DIY punk show. Tissue becomes currency as it is discovered that none of the loos in the entire venue have any – my stash acquired from the Wetherspoons further down the road. No cubicle provides the menstrual cup removing privacy of an old fashioned door. Instead, makeshift curtains swathe the space between yourself and a sorry stranger as the feat of dealing with your period in a space that assumes you do not have one trickles down your hand in all its bloody glory.

Do not have your period at a punk gig.

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ENGLAND FOOTBALL FANS BACK TO OLD (HOMOPHOBIC) WAYS IN PORTUGAL

MASS TOURISM: CITIES IN BAD FAITH

THREE LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE! RUSSIA WELCOMES ENGLAND FANS WITH OPEN ARMS

WE ARE EUROPE AND REMAIN SO

ON IMMIGRATION 1. LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING

I AM LUCKY

SORRY, ARE YOU A TRAVELLER?

WALKING THROUGH THE ART IN CÀDIZ

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