As part of the Fair Funding Review 2.0, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has announced an injection of £170 million into Durham County Council (DCC). The Labour Party claim that this is a “tenfold ...

Palatinate news team. Compiling this chronological, themed, guide was a much bigger task than this News Editor anticipated; however, it was hopefully worth the News Year’s Eve sacrifice. Parts one, ...

On Friday night, an attendee of the Durham Polo Ball, said to be from another university, was pictured waving a flag commonly used by Neo-Nazis. The flag in question is the German Imperial Flag.

Palatinate has once again revealed college popularity rankings. Due to changes to the University’s allocation process, applicants now rank their top three preferences instead of ranking all the ...

On a late afternoon in January, I entered Hotel Indigo to meet Martin Bell, the renowned war journalist turned independent politician, who was in Durham to make an appearance at the Durham Union. The ...

Marilyn Monroe. When we hear her name: platinum blonde hair, an iconic rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, and many Hollywood successes she was once the star of come to mind.

Students at Durham University tend to have a passionately close relationship with their colleges. Among this often comes a set of stereotypes and reputations for each college – often to do with the ...

The Black Cats and the Magpies. The Mackems and the Geordies. 2 Cities. 12 miles apart. Yet so far. As a student at a northern university, you must have heard about the infamous rivalry between the ...

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T. S. Eliot is no more a prophet than a recounter. A pioneering modernist of the Lost Generation — witnesses to the nightmarish decay of gold-gilt glamour throughout and after WWI — he is also a quiet ...

South College has come out on top of Palatinate’s Evans Table – a ranking of college academic performance – for the second year running. The system awards nine points for a first, four for a 2:1, one ...