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Interviews with important and interesting people in Durham and beyond. If you have someone you’d like to interview, email profile@palatinate.org.uk.

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Ambassador Matt Field: “the pandemic changed absolutely everything about how we worked as an Embassy”

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Amelia Pallister

Profile speaks to Ambassador Matt Field about his winding career path, from leaving Durham in 1999 to serving as the current UK Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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What is Love? Philosopher Simon May explains

May 17, 2022May 20, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Thomas Hennessy

Thomas Hennessy in dialogue with Simon May about why the Reformation may be more relevant to our love lives than we might think

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Nathan Law: “we’re not entitled to lose hope”

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Thomas Hennessy

Nathan Law on global democratic decline, idealism in student activism and maintaining hope in the future of Hong Kong.

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Crispin Blunt: “Right around the world, people like me are criminalised”

March 19, 2022March 19, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Ethan Sanitt

Profile speaks to MP Crispin Blunt about his time at Durham, the government’s response to the pandemic, and Partygate

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George Arbuthnott: “The Prime Minister’s handling of the pandemic has been one of the most scandalous failures of political leadership in British history”

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Ethan Sanitt

Profile speaks to Sunday Times journalist and Durham alumnus, George Arbuthnott, about Boris Johnson’s leadership, the government’s handling of the pandemic, and myths in journalism

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Dr Philip Rushbrook: joining the real world

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Thomas Hennessy

Thomas Hennessy talks to Dr Philip Rushbrook, British governor of St Helena, about societal change, cabbage trees and local democracy

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Stuart Heritage: “A fifteen-year career, and I’ve cashed it all in for some coconut cake”

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Ethan Sanitt

Profile speaks to writer and Guardian columnist Stuart Heritage about his career in journalism, Mission Impossible, and white chocolate coconut bundt cake

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Edith Hall: “if you can’t be a proper moral agent, then you’re never going to be truly happy”

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Thomas Hennessy

Thomas Hennessy talks to Edith Hall about Aristotle, classism in Classics and the meaning of life.

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Carla Denyer: “Our electoral system is embarrassingly out of date”

January 30, 2022January 30, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments

Profile interviews Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party, about universities, her time at Durham, and
what she would like to achieve as co-leader of the UK’s fastest-growing political party

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Sir Harry Evans: Palatinate’s greatest editor?

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Poppy 0 Comments George Simms, Harold Evans day

George Simms reflects on Sir Harry Evans’ first editorial role and his long-lasting impact on Palatinate.

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