This year UEA is proudly celebrating 50 years of its Creative Writing course. UEA’s Autumn Literary Festival has not allowed distancing measures to interrupt their celebration, and instead are holding the seven-week series online, as UEA Live. Acclaimed crime author Lee Child kicked off the event on Wednesday night (7 October). Lee Child is a…
TV
Cancelled TV: ‘American Vandal’ and ‘Forever’
I have two go-tos when it comes to shows cancelled too soon: American Vandal – one of the best comedies of recent years and another victim of Netflix’s cynical “two seasons, then done” financial strategy – and Forever. My love of detective and mystery series comes from an utter inability to guess who the culprit…
Global
39 migrants found dead in lorry truck in Essex
The bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated container in Essex on Wednesday, 23 October 2019. Although Essex Police initially believed that all 31 men and 8 women were Chinese nationals, recent victim identification by has found that at least 6 of them were Vietnamese. Four individuals have been arrested for suspicion of…
News
Universities tackle harassment
A report by Universities UK, the representative organisation for the UK’s universities, has shown that universities have made great strides in tackling gender-based violence, but warned that more was needed to be done to combat racism. The report, called Changing The Culture, is a report by Universities UK taskforce examining violence against women, harrasment and…
Sex Survey 2019
Upskirting; ‘an act of violation a tool for humiliation’
On 15 January 2019, the House of Lords approved a ban on upskirting, one that was previously blocked June 2018 by MP Christopher Chope – at the time, the sole objector to the bill. It’s a ban that was tirelessly campaigned for by Gina Martin, who, at the British Summertime Festival in London 2017, became…
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Police cordon Anglia Square after gunman reports
A gunman has reportedly assaulted two people this morning in the area around Magdalen Street. Norfolk Police have closed off Anglia Square shopping centre and Magdalen Street whilst Norwich CID investigates. The exact nature of the incident is not clear. It is reported that a man carrying a firearm approached a group of people at…
TV
True Detective Season 3 initial review
The third season of HBO’s crime anthology series True Detective bears a lot of weight on its shoulders. The show’s memorable first season, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, was a stellar southern gothic story that delved into morality and the nature of good and evil. Meanwhile the second season, with a bigger big-name cast…
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Attempted Robbery on Larkman Lane
At approximately 9.15pm on Wednesday 9th January an unidentified man wearing a skeleton mask and gloves entered the Kwiksave store on Larkman Lane, a popular area for student housing. The man threatened the manager Arulampalam Rajiharan (known as Raj) with what appeared to be a gun and a hammer. Raj used a broom handle to…
Travel
Travelling to “Dangerous Destinations”
I was scrolling through the segment of the British government website that offers British citizens advice on which countries are currently too dangerous to visit. It cities killings, political instability and theft as some of the reasons why one should not go to a country. Many of the ‘dangerous’ countries that were listed were far…
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