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THE NORWICH RADICAL – MARCH 2026 ISSUE Welcome to the March 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The horrors persist, but so do we. After a leaner issue last time, we come back with a fully stocked arts-centred issue this month, as our co…

The horrors persist, but so do we. In our arts-focused March issue, our community of writers proves that there are (still, always, and forever) pockets of joy, creativity, and resistance in the face of the bastards trying to grind us down.

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VIENNESE WHIRL, HACKNEY GALLERY – REVIEW by Carmina Masoliver Viennese Whirl featured artists AUSJIÄNDER, Siobhan Binaghi, SMAIBLUE, Paul Doherty and Epona. With non-alcoholic cocktails, a tour of the exhibition, and live sounds, there wa…

VIENNESE WHIRL, HACKNEY GALLERY - REVIEW
By Carmina Masoliver

NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY AS AUSTERITY CINEMA by Eve Hilton CW: Mentions of rape, surgery, torture and graphic violence New French Extremity has frequently been perceived as a cinema of excess, owing to its graphic and protracted depictions of…

NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY AS AUSTERITY CINEMA
By Eve Hilton

CABARETS AS ACTS OF RESISTANCE: BUILDING COMMUNITIES IN A TIME OF DIVISION by Greta Santagata It’s not every day that you sit in a pub, and find yourself sandwiched between a 60-something-year-old local with a pint and a half of bitter and a man dressed as a naughty archa…

CABARETS AS ACTS OF RESISTANCE: BUILDING COMMUNITIES IN A TIME OF DIVISION
By Greta Santagata

A CERTAIN WEIRDNESS – ASHBURY HEIGHTS TOUR DIARY By Kasper Hassett When goth synthpop messiahs Ashbury Heights announced a five-stop UK tour to mark their 20th anniversary, it took very little deliberating to commit to following the entire tour. …

A CERTAIN WEIRDNESS - ASHBURY HEIGHTS TOUR DIARY
By Kasper Hassett

THE NORWICH RADICAL – MARCH 2026 ISSUE Welcome to the March 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The horrors persist, but so do we. After a leaner issue last time, we come back with a fully stocked arts-centred issue this month, as our co…

The horrors persist, but so do we. In our arts-focused March issue, our community of writers proves that there are (still, always, and forever) pockets of joy, creativity, and resistance in the face of the bastards trying to grind us down.

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FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS JOIN THE SWP By Rowan Gavin Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault, victim blaming, abuse and manipulation The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is rightly maligned by many for its interventionist organising t…

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS JOIN THE SWP
By Rowan Gavin

RJ ARKHIPOV’S VISCERAL AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF BLOOD by Eve Hilton In the opening page of his poetry collection Visceral: The Poetry of Blood, Welsh poet RJ Arkhipov offers two definitions of the word ‘visceral’. The first: pertaining to viscera, the…

RJ ARKHIPOV’S VISCERAL AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF BLOOD
By Eve Hilton

THINGS WE LOVED IN 2025 by The Norwich Radical contributors In an attempt to start the new year on a positive note, we at the Norwich Radical decided to bring together various contributions from the team looking back at m…

THINGS WE LOVED IN 2025
By The Norwich Radical Contributors

THE NORWICH RADICAL – JANUARY 2026 ISSUE Welcome to the January 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! In a month as dramatic as this one, the pressure is on modern media to be constantly moving, dragged from one statement, one atrocity, one …

In a month as dramatic as this one, the pressure is on modern media to be constantly moving. In our January issue, we take things at our own pace, slowing down to explore poetry, politics, and the year that was.

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BREAKING THE HEGEMONY OF PRIVATE VEHICLE OWNERSHIP By Howard Green British society, and wider humanity, is more than aware of the negative effects that overuse and overproduction of private vehicles has on our planet. And yet now, more than ever be…

BREAKING THE HEGEMONY OF PRIVATE VEHICLE OWNERSHIP
By Howard Green

REVIEW: THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE LIVE @ THE GARAGE By Kasper Hassett Given the opportunity to catch The Birthday Massacre on a fairly rare UK visit, I jumped at the chance. The Canadian alternative rock group had last played in the UK three years a…

REVIEW: THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE LIVE @ THE GARAGE
By Kasper Hassett

IS THE UK ‘ONLY AS SICK AS ITS SECRET’? By Sunetra Senior The latest from the soul-destroying state of UK politics has included the proposition of ID cards in order to work, a colossal fascist protest that occupied the whole of London Br…

IS THE UK ‘ONLY AS SICK AS ITS SECRET’?
By Sunetra Senior

REVIEW: MUTTERTONGUE – WHAT IS A WORD IN UTTER SPACE By Carmina Masoliver Muttertongue is a collaboration between Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin, and Gregory Betts blending dub poetry with sound experiments, recorded in improvisation and accompanied by a…

REVIEW: MUTTERTONGUE – WHAT IS A WORD IN UTTER SPACE
By Carmina Masoliver

MIKE STONARD’S TRAIL OF FAILED VENTURES LEADS TO ANGLIA SQUARE By SiP The System How Norwich’s council leader oversaw multiple corporate collapses while pursuing a £350m development dream.

MIKE STONARD’S TRAIL OF FAILED VENTURES LEADS TO ANGLIA SQUARE
By SiP The System

THE NORWICH RADICAL – NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE Welcome to the November 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! As we write, reporting is continuing on the aftermath of COP30 the latest iteration of the often-impotent UN climate change conference.

In our November issue, we tackle the cold by lighting a fire under the feet of our local officials, while nurturing a spark of hope through political action, engagement with theory, exploration of language, and just dancing our butts off!

RED POPPIES VERSUS WHITE POPPIES (AND THE PROBLEM WITH PACIFISM) By Sarah Edgcumbe The red poppy/white poppy/no poppy debate has become increasingly emotive in recent years, as certain right wing groups have co-opted it for their own warped ethno-nationalist cau…

From the archive (2018)

Perhaps what we need is not a white poppy, nor a red poppy, but a black poppy – a poppy that signifies internationalism and solidarity, recognition that all lives are of equal value and rejection of state militarism.

This is a huge win. They wanted a weekend of hate, recruitment and fundraising and instead they were shut down by people like you.

They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready. Thank you for standing with us.

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗

Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

RESTRICTIONS ON PORN AREN’T DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN By Rowan Gavin Between the increasing dominance of major platforms, the rise of so-called ‘AI’ services, and the spread of platform decay maximising profits over user experience, we’ve all seen the…

First published on @wearequeeraf.com the @thenorwichradical.com looks at how adult content restrictions are paving the way for more anti-LGBTQIA+ content censorship 👇

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SUBKULTFESTIVALEN 2025 REVIEW by Kasper Hassett Sweden’s alternative music scene has a reputation for being needlessly strong, and – for dark music fans – Subkultfestivalen is one of the main events of the year. It is known as …

SUBKULTFESTIVALEN 2025 REVIEW
By Kasper Hassett

RESTRICTIONS ON PORN AREN’T DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN By Rowan Gavin Between the increasing dominance of major platforms, the rise of so-called ‘AI’ services, and the spread of platform decay maximising profits over user experience, we’ve all seen the…

RESTRICTIONS ON PORN AREN’T DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN
By Rowan Gavin

THE FRUSTRATIONS AND FASCINATIONS OF FOOTBALL FANDOM By Howard Green On the first weekend of August, Norwich played host to a massive number of Dutch football fans. The football club had organised a pre-season friendly against Eredivisie side NAC Bre…

THE FRUSTRATIONS AND FASCINATIONS OF FOOTBALL FANDOM
By Howard Green

BURN THEM OUT! – A READING OF PÁDRAIG ÓG Ó RUAIRC’S HISTORY OF FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT IN IRELAND by Bernard Rorke These latest attacks once again punctured the smug fallacy that racism couldn’t take root among the Irish in the land of a hundred thousand welcomes (céad míle failte), with its ow…

BURN THEM OUT! – A READING OF PÁDRAIG ÓG Ó RUAIRC’S HISTORY OF FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT IN IRELAND
By Bernard Rorke

THE NORWICH RADICAL – AUGUST 2025 ISSUE Welcome to the August 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world continues to heat up in an all-too literal sense, and another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppress…

Another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppression – and the fire of outrage and protest – to many parts of the world. Our August 2025 Issue looks to the past, and to the small things, to find hope.