The Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

By Rowan Gavin A lot has changed since The Norwich Radical was founded in the spring of 2014.

By Howard Green When was the last time you walked around Norwich spotting the same poster in seemingly every window you pass? My most recent memory of a band generating such a visual presence acros…

by Eve Hilton There is a long history to the medical suspicion of women. The vocabulary may change but the structure persists: the hysterical woman exaggerated, the neurotic woman somatised, the an…

Welcome to the September 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical. And, of course, welcome to Andy ‘Quick Wins’ Burnham’s new Britain!

The Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

By Andrew Boswell Thousands of Norfolk teachers, council workers and other public servants may unknowingly be investing their retirement savings in some of the world’s most climate-damaging f…

By Alex Valente It’s been three years since the last big animation project from ZeroCalcare, Questo Mondo Non Mi Renderà Cattivo (This World Can’t Tear Me Down), became available to stream. In May …

by Eve Hilton CW: Mentions of abortion, self-harm, suicide, forced sterilisation, and child grooming “My life could be summed up by the extreme human experience of abortion” states Puerto Rican wri…

By Howard Green FIFA’s 23rd edition of their definitive global footballing competition has now come and gone, and once again it has had a phenomenal impact around the world. Nothing else short of r…

Welcome to the July 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical. It has been a torrid summer so far, both in terms of climate and, well, of everything else. We’re writing this intro in the direct after…

The Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

By Howard Green Fascism is a loaded ideological term, but a broad one. This ambiguity has followed a number of far-right populist movements, particularly those that have achieved political and elec…

by Eve Hilton CW: mentions of pedophilia, sexual abuse, racism The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement which emerged in the late 1940s and flourished through the 1950s, continuing in…

By Jonathan Lee In 1957, the Welsh nationalist writer Islwyn Ffowc Elis imagined a future Wales that had been completely transformed in his political sci-fi novel, Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week …

Welcome to the May 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! Like many Mays past, it’s been a dramatic month in UK politics. Much has been made of Reform UK’s apparent sweeping success in the …

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 Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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 Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

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…

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…

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…

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 …

The Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

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…

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…

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…

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…

By SiP The System How Norwich’s council leader oversaw multiple corporate collapses while pursuing a £350m development dream.

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.

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…

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…

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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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Norwich Radical is an independent, not-for-profit online publication that platforms progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

By Howard Green During a short trip away, I picked up Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi (translated by Margaret Jull Costa) from amongst a collection of Penguin Archive texts in a small …

by Bliss Wylie, member of ACORN Norwich  Damp climbing walls. Mould spreading across ceilings. Broken boilers in winter. Faulty wiring. These aren’t rare housing horror stories—they’re …

by Jonathan Lee  “This settlement once looked beautiful. We grew up as children in this settlement. We had hygienic conditions, we had pitches where we played football, we didn’t have to play…