WHY ISN’T NORWICH HIGHER IN THE POPULARITY CONTEST?

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Alan Partridge, Delia Smith, featured, James Anthony, norwich, popularity, The Broads, York, yougov.

by James Anthony

A poll of over fifty-thousand people has found that Norwich is more popular than major cities including Manchester, Birmingham and even London, ‘The Big Smoke’ itself. However, many areas across the country have been rated as more popular than our beloved city, creating local headlines such as “How can Stoke be rated a nicer city than Norwich?” and comments of, “At least we have Delia Smith!”. Norwich ended up as the twenty-fourth most popular city in that YouGov survey, and I was certainly amongst those who were a little disappointed with the result.

2017: THE YEAR OF THE YOUTHQUAKE?

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged activism, agitate, analysis, BES, change, conservatives, corbyn, democracy, demographics, elections, featured, GE17, general election, Ipsos-Mori, Labour, mobilise, momentum, New Statesman, nme, organise, Parliament, Peter Kellner, politics, Prosser et al, statistics, uk, voter turnout, voting, yougov, young people, youth engagement, youth politics, youth turnout, youthquake.

by Bradley Allsop

Youth voter turnout has long been a topic of debate, controversy and worry in British politics. Always below the national average, it has plunged even more than other age-groups’ dovetailing turnout in recent decades, sparking expressions of concern (although comparatively little policy change) from political parties. This seemed to have changed last June, with sites such as Yougov and NME reporting large increases in the youth vote for the 2017 general election, with the figures suggesting the largest rise in youth turnout in British political history.

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.

DON’T JUST VOTE

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 1906, AJ Tracey, apolitical, conservatives, corbyn, credit rating, don't just vote, electorate, general election, grassroots, Grime for Corbyn, jeremy corbyn, just vote, Labour, labour party, martyr, old people, political freedom, Reform Act, right to vote, ruling class, Selina Cooper, suffragettes, theresa may, Tories, trade union, vote, voting matters, welfare state, women, working class activists, yougov, young people.

by Will Durant

There is a particular and widespread attitude to voting that is well meaning but ultimately futile. It goes something like this: “I don’t care how you vote, just vote!” We find a typical example of this attitude from a 2015 Mirror article. What are these reasons? (1) It helps your credit rating, (2) young people vote far less than older people, (3) people fought and died to win for you to vote and (4) non-voters can change the outcome of an election. These reasons do indeed hold true for our election in 2017. In fact, as I write, the YouGov polls giving Labour a vote surge rely heavily on a big turnout from the young.

There is, however, something very strange about this attitude to voting. Although it tells you that it is possible, it gives no reason for why you would want to change the outcome of the election, it is simply something to do. Without advocating any particular outcome, this rationale for voting manages to make it apolitical.Continue Reading

DICTATORSHIPS & DEMOCRACY

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Abraham Lincoln, activism, Benito Mussolini, Brexit, china, corruption, democracy, dictator, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Erdogan, EU, EU referendum, Freedom House, Haiti, Hilary Clinton, Joseph Stalin, Lincoln, Mao Zedong, media, Mussolini, oil, politics, poverty, PR, Recep Erdogan, Roberto Saviano, Stalin, steel, turkey, uk, US, US presidential election, yougov, Zedong.

by Gunnar Eigener

‘Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people.’
– Abraham Lincoln

Democracy has long been the banner to which Western leaders rally their troops to fight under. The Brexit referendum is a prime example of extreme democracy, progress for some at the expense of others. The desired outcome for the Leave campaign is for the UK to become a self-governing democracy. Just how much more democratic will the country become?

172 VERSUS 400,000: THE NUMBERS BEHIND LABOUR’S NEXT LEADERSHIP RACE

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged andy burnham, angela eagle, data, electoral college system, jeremy corbyn, Labour, labour coup, labour leadership, liz kendall, membership, MEPs, MPs, poll, statistics, supporters, tony blair, yougov, Yvette Cooper.

by Elliot Folan

So, it’s now looking almost inevitable that there will be some sort of challenge to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, most likely from Wallasey MP Angela Eagle. YouGov gave us a taste of what this would look like with their poll of Labour members last week, but members aren’t the only people who vote in Labour Leadership elections; the £3 registered supporters and affiliated union supporters get a vote too, and they all count the same. So, is it possible to make an estimate of what the full Labour leadership contest would look like based on the numbers we have? I would say yes, and this article is an attempt to do that, as well as a look at other important numbers for the contest.Continue Reading

‘THE TAB’ AND ‘BISEXUALITY’: SAYING YOU’RE A JOURNALIST IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR BEING ABLE TO WRITE COHERENTLY

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives, Student and tagged biphobia, biphobic, bisexual, bisexuality, brenda howard, cara delevingne, david bowie, freddie mercury, gender, herman melville, journalism, journalist, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, marilyn monroe, miley cyrus, pride, same gender, sexuality, tab, The Tab, yougov.

by Blythe Aimson

According to The Tab’s William Lloyd, I am not Cara Delevingne. Damn. I wish someone had told me sooner. No wonder DKNY aren’t returning my calls.

In all seriousness, The Tab recently published Lloyd’s article ‘Saying you’re bisexual is no substitute for being interesting’ (original article found here via donotlink). The central points of his argument are as follows: most people who identify as bisexual are lying; you must have slept with someone of the opposite sex to be ‘legitimately’ bisexual; bisexuality is a largely modern phenomenon caused by the desire to be dramatic and interesting on social media.

The first error in Lloyd’s pretty abysmal article is the assertion ‘So this is it: the gay-straight binary is collapsing’, as though gay and straight are the only two sexualities to have ever existed before social media told us otherwise. It’s true that the media has recently fixated on bisexuality as hip subversive trend, as more celebrities open up on the subject, such as his example Cara Delevingne, but this certainly doesn’t mean that bisexuality never existed before Miley Cyrus said so.Continue Reading

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WHY ISN’T NORWICH HIGHER IN THE POPULARITY CONTEST?

2017: THE YEAR OF THE YOUTHQUAKE?

50 YEARS – HOW FAR HAVE WE REALLY COME?

DON’T JUST VOTE

DICTATORSHIPS & DEMOCRACY

172 VERSUS 400,000: THE NUMBERS BEHIND LABOUR’S NEXT LEADERSHIP RACE

‘THE TAB’ AND ‘BISEXUALITY’: SAYING YOU’RE A JOURNALIST IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR BEING ABLE TO WRITE COHERENTLY

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