Older (and Wiser): Lizzy McAlpine finds her voice
A review of Lizzy's most vulnerable album yet - and why you need to listen.
Culture & Arts
Skyscrapers and bungalows: Inside Durham University’s new planning permission applications
Skyscrapers? Soup? Sentient hoovers? - all will be revealed in our deep dive into Durham University's fresh flurry of planning permission applications.
A day with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Spending the day with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
From suspicious to trendy: how running reached the podium of popular sport
Since the 1960s, running has quite literally become a movement which attracts the support of millions. 50 years ago, running was a solitary and bizarre activity, reserved only for dedicated…
Fantasy Friction: racist undertones in the fantasy genre
Isabella Farley explores the fantasy genre and its Eurocentric bias.
Appreciating change
Gwen Smit explores our feelings around change and how we can alter our discomfort towards it through renewed perspectives.
Philosophy for mental health: Lessons from Epictetus’ How to Be Free
Claire Manning Duignan discusses the lessons that can be taken from the stoic work How to Be Free, and how they can be applied for mental health in the 21st…
Isabelle Bylett reviews the Elysium Theatre Company’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello
Isabelle Bylett discusses race and the position of the outsider in the Elysium Theatre Company’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello.
Popular Durham nightclub revealed to have links to 15th century kingdom
On Thursday evening, shocking information was leaked from an anonymous source within the popular Durham nightclub Bohemia. We sent our best investigative journalist to get the full scoop, and this…
Working it out on the remix: how Charli XCX is reviving the album
Myrtle Watts delves into the prolonged success of BRAT and how music listening culture might be changing