Subscriber Following our recent recruitment drive, we are very pleased to be able to introduce the new editor of our Student section: Freya Buxton!

Freya is studying for her undergrad in English Literature and writes regularly for her university’s student newspaper, mostly about the latest university-based stories. She is passionate about supporting education and volunteers with an afterschool homework club for primary school children and a local prison history society. When she isn’t scribbling or reading she enjoys running and sewing, when she remembers. As more and more people are getting vaccinated in the Global North, the whispers that 'it's all over' are starting to gain volume and confidence. But elsewhere in the world, it is not so easy to dust off the rose-tinted glasses.

Operating along centuries-old lines of privilege and power, governments and corporations in the North and West have channelled the large majority of available vaccines towards wealthier nations. Over 100 countries, led by India and South Africa, have requested that the WTO suspend patent rights related to vaccines - but the voices of the wealthy North are conspicuously absent, loathe to renege on their oh-so-close relationship with pharmaceutical multinationals. 

Wherever you are, we hope that you are able to stay safe and well, and that you keep your eyes open to the circumstances of people in other parts of the world. A pandemic is a global emergency, and we cannot say that it is over until it has been addressed equally everywhere.

In Solidarity,
The Norwich Radical Editorial Team
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