Face to face teaching cancelled as Storm Arwen sets its sights on Durham

At 2pm today, Durham University students received an email announcing that all face to face teaching would cease from 2pm due to the red weather warning in place for Durham.

Populism and polarisation: France prepares itself for a divisive election

Upon securing victory in a splintering and deeply factional election, Emmanuel Macron spoke of a new vision for a pluralistic French society, pledging in turn to “combat all forms of inequality and discrimination”. With this commitment came great expectation; Marine Le Pen, then his closest presidential rival, had reinvigorated a rural working-class base previously detached […]

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Durham isn’t training students to be sex workers, despite what the media says

Channel migrant crossings: tension and uncertainty brews between France and the UK

Good COP or bad COP: was the conference a success?

Two big Autumn Budget headlines, and what they mean for the UK economy

Boosting feel-good chemicals: the secret to happiness?

Hungarian elections: could they see a new beginning?

My experience at COP26