President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention to prevent the further spread of civil unrest in the United States. The past week has seen protests grip over 75 cities after the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody. Mr Trump claimed if cities and states failed to “defend their residents” and quell…
News
SU rejected Army’s request to distribute recruitment leaflets
Management minutes have confirmed Uea(su) rejected the British Army’s request to distribute recruitment leaflets in Union House earlier this year. The minutes state the SU management committee agreed “unanimously” to deny the request. It is a move UEA Conservatives have condemned. A spokesman for the group said: “The Students’ Union should recognise that a career…
Travel
Growing up and travelling in the army
By the time I was nine, I’d lived in five different houses and three different countries. Until my early teen years, my dad was in the army, living in one house until coming to university was a foreign concept to me. I was born in 1999 in Dundonald, a suburb of Belfast, and lived in…
Comment, Uncategorized
Stopping Brexit will solve the Irish border problem
For over two hundred years, the ‘Irish Question’ has dominated British politics. Between Westminster eliminating the Irish parliament and establishing full control in 1800 to the Good Friday agreement in 1998, there’s been almost constant strife. The Troubles rocked all of the British Isles and when the aforementioned Good Friday agreement was signed, allowing a…
Arts
Viking exhibition at the Norwich Castle Museum
In the eighth and ninth centuries, the area of East Anglia was particularly vulnerable to invasion from Vikings sailing across the North Sea. With fertile land conveniently located facing the southern part of Scandinavia, the invasion of East Anglia and Northumbria (what is now northern England and south-eastern Scotland) by the Great Heathen Army in…
Global
Asia Year in Review
A historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has led some to suggest the age of North Korea as a rogue state is coming to an end. The divided North and South have made increasingly conciliatory moves over 2018; however, experts have warned that this may not be the…
Comment
“Poppies shouldn’t be politicised”
UEA is wonderful in so many ways. We welcome people regardless of race, gender, sexuality, and other social identities. We have a campus that’s generally safe and happy. We have iconic architecture, and a plethora of bunnies roam freely around. I love UEA. I also love the SU. They’re often a great source for provocative…
Features
Student life less ordinary
Imagine a society where you get to go skiing, mountaineering and yachting. Imagine a society that teaches you leadership, teamwork and survival skills. A society that would have you climbing in Morocco one week, and target shooting in Dartmoor the next. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Now imagine that they pay you…
Film, Venue
Swiss army man
Swiss Army Man has balls, brains and brilliance. Not normally adjectives you would associate with a love story between a suicidal, stranded survivor (Paul Dano) and a corpse suffering from chronic flatulence (Daniel Radcliffe), but then again, this is no ordinary film. This surrealist, noir comedy has, in many ways, become the bastard offspring of…
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