UEA Live is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a bang! The festival is dedicated to celebrating creativity across all platforms and literary types, inspiring audiences to read and create until their hearts are content. This event celebrates authors from all origins in a brilliant, beautiful way, and this year is no different. UEA Live will…
Features, Interview
Clive Lewis: ‘Do I still think that I can think things through in a sexist, racist way? Yes I do’
Waiting in the side room of Clive Lewis’ office at OPEN Norwich, we wonder whether the Norwich South MP wants to be Labour leader after his pal (most of the time) Corbyn. He’s got all the right qualities. We can hear him laughing next door: charming. Tick. He was in the army. Toured Afghanistan. Tick….
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‘Brexit is genuinely pointless’
Several of the most important votes in recent British political history took place this month. The first of these was another vote on Theresa May’s negotiated deal, also known as Meaningful Vote 2. This was once again rejected, though this time it was the fourth largest defeat in Parliamentary history as opposed to the largest….
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Will Labour learn their lesson?
An internal Labour party report, commissioned by former interim leader Harriet Harman, has revealed the key causes for the party’s worst performance since 1987 in last May’s election. In a manner reminiscent of The Thick Of It, the paper was leaked to the BBC before being officially released to the party. Entitled ‘Learning the Lessons’,…
News
Labour party would introduce individual careers advice in schools
Labour have announced that should they be in power after the general election on the 7th May they will improve careers advice by guaranteeing individual face-to-face careers advice for all secondary school pupils. Under the plans Labour claim that their careers advice would focus on both vocational and academic routes into jobs. The aim of…
Environment, Science
Green taxes: separating the wheat from the chaff
Environment editor Peter Sheehan aims to separate truth and myth surrounding green taxes and energy bills.
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Is Miliband really shifting to the left that much?
Elliot Wengler writes on Ed Miliband’s party conference speech.
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A vote for Labour is a vote for the Unions
Elliot Wengler on the battle between David Cameron and Ed Miliband for the trade unions.
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Hilary, Kate and the Mail Online
Peter Sheehan comments on the Hilary Mantel – Kate Middleton scandal
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