Palatinate (newspaper)

Rating: 2 out of 5. Reviewers of poetry and lyric often seek to either encourage or dissuade the reader from purchasing the collection itself. Yet, Tishani Doshi embraces abstraction to such an extent that it is difficult to predict whether a prospective reader will enjoy Egrets, While War. Each poem invites a different interpretation, which may be either meaningful and profound or, at times, seemingly devoid of meaning.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Karen McCarthy Woolf's Unsafe begins with wire fences and broken glass. A photograph of a punched-in window opens the collection in more ways than one: as well as providing a striking introduction to the violence which the book depicts, it also conveys a sense of fragmentation. The reader enters McCarthy Woolf's poetry through the gap in the cracked glass, stepping through into a world fraught with cruelty, but still lit up with fragile hope.

It seems like the pop music scene of the 2020s is all about harnessing nostalgia. Music videos and performances are laden with references, and every young star is being compared to those that came before them. Just recently, Drake released ICEMAN with Michael Jackson's iconic bedazzled glove on the album cover - but is this trend helping artists innovate, or are they just baiting us into liking their music without having to put real creativity into it?

By Hugh Ludford Durham University is "unlikely" to reach Net Zero by its 2035 target, according to newly-released meeting minutes. In a meeting of the University Council in February (minutes released in August), the council heard that "although the University did perform well in sustainability and environmental league tables ... the University was unlikely to achieve its zero-carbon emissions ambition by 2035".

News Editor Gussie Coulter joins development economist and GiveDirectly founder, Paul Niehaus, to explore the tractability of extreme poverty, direct cash transfers and his recent paper, 'What would it cost to end extreme poverty?' By Gussie Coulter "You guys must be smoking crack" was one criticism Paul Niehaus and fellow graduate students at Harvard and MIT faced when they conceived GiveDirectly in 2008. Others, he recalls, "literally said 'I hate it'".

Content Warning: offensive language Offensive chats, such as one which said that Adolf Hitler was "too lenient", were left on a Durham Freshers WhatsApp group including over 500 prospective Durham University students. The Whatsapp community, named 'Durham Scammer Free 2026', has various sub-groups, including one titled 'Hinge and Dating', which is where the comment on Adolf Hitler was made. The community is unaffiliated with the University, and is moderated by prospective Durham students.

Imagine a scenario in which all the rhinos, giraffes or crocodilians of the world went suddenly extinct. Imagine that horseshoe crabs, or okapi, or camels, or orangutans were to vanish in the blink of an eye (pick a card; any card). Fifteen years after this extinction event, you have a child. Driving them home from school one day you drift into reminiscence, retelling a trip to the zoo you took on a weekend during university study.

The Durham Tab published an anonymous contributor comment described by students as "homophobic" in a now-deleted social media post. The anonymous comment appeared in a post uploaded to Instagram and Facebook displaying submissions from students about what makes each Durham college unique.

Durham University will receive €275,000 to co-lead the development of an 'AI Sandbox', a controlled environment to test artificial intelligence models. This is part of an international project which aims to support skills development and business growth with AI innovation. This funding, from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), is a portion of the €2 million that has been awarded for the overall project.

Durham Fringe Festival kicks off on 29th July, featuring more shows and performances than ever before. Now in its sixth iteration, the Fringe will involve five days of the arts onstage. The 130 shows and almost 300 performances expected throughout the week include theatre, comedy, circus, and more. "We are so excited to be returning with our most ambitious Fringe Festival to date," said Festival Manager Maria Baranowska.