http://www.palatinate.org.uk Durham's Official Student Newspaper Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:42:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Morality is dead; long live Morality! At the final applause, the stage is rife with victims of revenge, greed, temptation.Their yellow shoes are shining gleefully, especially in the murder scene, when the darkness allows us only a sketchy glimpse onto the last breaths of Alfred Ill. ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/indigo/stage/theatre-reviews/the-visit/ Knowing very little about Equus, besides that it was the play in which Daniel Radcliffe famously disrobed in 2007, and that it was about horses, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this production from This Theatre Company.  Yet this was one of the most ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/indigo/stage/theatre-reviews/equus/ Andy Warhol was a leading figure in pop art. Warhol’s widely diverse social circle ranged from bohemian street people to wealthy aristocrats and his life-long fascination with Hollywood inspired his celebrity portraits which he began in 1962. But what about the man who boosted his fame and kept him in ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/indigo/visual-arts/behind-every-great-man-theres-a-great-photographer/ Doing their part to raise environmental awareness, artists worldwide have increasingly focused attention on the plight of global warming’s key animal: the polar bear. Last Christmas the public witnessed a powerful piece of installation art in Trafalgar Sqaure, the extreme sculptor Mark Coreth’s latest project. Trafalgar Square’s Northern Terrace played host ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/indigo/visual-arts/an-ice-time-in-london/ It's Wednesday evening. You head down to the JCR for a drink and a quick game of pool. To your annoyance, you are unable to even see the table due to a huddle of college pool players in the middle of a match. There's at least a fiver's worth of ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/comment/college-pool-a-complex-and-competitive-challenge/ The Ukrainian presidential election has, for perhaps obvious reasons, not entirely caught the imagination of the British public. But what has been going on with our friends in the East certainly isn’t without consequence; it emphasises the arrogance and incompetence of the liberal governments who dominate Western Europe. Viktor Yanukovych has ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/comment/democracy-challenged-in-the-ukrainian-elections/ It’s a profound irony that this often used quote is attributed to Benjamin Disraeli; no evidence can be found to suggest that the British Prime Minister wrote this in any of his work.  Indeed, the earliest known usage of the term was made years after his death. What cannot be doubted ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/comment/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/ Lord Mandelson has struck back at university lecturers and administrators, accusing them of using “extreme rhetoric” to spread alarmist claims about funding cuts. Higher Education faces meltdown, critics have claimed, as universities have been demanded to save £449m in 2011-12. Spending on teaching has been slashed by 1.6 per cent, while ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/news/mandelson-strikes-back-at-universities/ One of the major sources of tension between Durham University and the NUS over the recent cancellation of the BNP debate has been the no platform policy.  It is a policy that the NUS showcase, so proud are they of this sparkling piece of union legislation.  At the NUS annual ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/comment/why-no-platform-policies-are-detrimental-to-defeating-the-bnp/ As I sit here writing this it is the day after the husts for the Sabbatical and Trustee elections in DSU. It is hard to believe that it was a year ago that I was standing in front of a room full of people, asking for their votes. It is ... http://www.palatinate.org.uk/news/dsu-presidents-column-5/