To anybody looking at the U.S. election results, one fact stands out: Hillary Clinton is on track to receive more votes across the country than Donald Trump, but Trump is the President-elect. What gives? It’s all down to a system known as the ‘Electoral College’. Rather than totalling up the popular vote across America, each…
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Three’s a crowd: the struggles of third party candidates
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. President, has not had a good few months. He looks set to dip below 5% (the level needed to receive state funding); his running mate has focused his energy on defeating Donald Trump instead of electing Johnson; and two weeks ago a video of Johnson went viral…
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Local elections round up
Norwich Labour Party retained control of Norwich City Council in last month’s elections, while Norfolk’s Independent Police and Crime Commissioner, Stephen Bett, lost his bid for re-election and was replaced by Conservative Lorne Greene. Labour Within Norwich, Labour gained 4 seats from the Green Party, increasing their majority on the city council. In University ward,…
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NUS votes to back referendum on student strike
The National Union of Students executive has voted to support calls for a national “student strike” in opposition to the government’s education policies, and has instructed officials to prepare for a possible nationwide ballot of student unions on the issue. At the most recent meeting of the NUS’ National Executive Council (NEC), members backed a…
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University refuses to fly pride flag
The UEA administration have responded to calls from student LGBT+ campaigners to fly the pride flag over the Registry Building. The issue was initially raised with the Vice-Chancellor at a Union Council meeting on 16th April and has been an ongoing concern since. The request was made in order to celebrate Norwich Pride on 25th…
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UEA needs to do more for transgender students
This issue of Concrete is a pertinent one for LGBT+ issues, falling as it does within LGBT+ History Month. So it seems important to draw people’s attention to a part of the LGBT community that is often forgotten and is still badly served on our campus: transgender students. The term ‘transgender’ is a broad one…
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Uncertainty over postgrad referendum
Postgraduate students have been left uncertain about the future of their representation following a fall out between the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) and the Union of UEA Students (UUEAS). Over the past few months the GSA and UUEAS have held discussions on whether the two entities should join together in one body, and if so…
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Ex-UEA economics lecturer takes on role of Greece finance minister
He still describes himself on Twitter solely as an Economics professor, and continues to tweet unfiltered opinions on the European debt crisis just as he has for the past few years. But Yanis Varoufakis, who taught Economics at UEA in the late 1980s, now has a new job: in the Syriza election victory of 2015,…
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Party games: 100 days till the election
With 100 days to go, Elliot Folan looks ahead to May’s general election. The 2015 general election was always going to be unusual. Ever since the Fixed Term Parliaments Act extended parliamentary terms to a full five years, and took the power to call elections away from the Prime Minister, it was clear that the…
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