Words of 2017
Fed up of ‘fake news’? Our Comment writers choose their alternative words of 2017.
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Danny Walker
Durham University: money-grabbing, shameless, and shambolic
Another rise in college fees: a direct attack on the accessibility for working-class students.
Read moreDurham Pride: the Leanne Harper controversy
Surely in this instance, boycotting Durham Pride – precisely because the boycotting groups are amongst its strongest supporters – would merely undermine Pride’s success? Danny Walker asks.
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Dunelm House: should it stay or should it go?
Danny Walker argues that there is no reason to ‘fix’ what is not broken. Dunelm House meets the requirements of a students’ union for Durham University, and a new construction to ‘raise Durham’s profile’ is unnecessary and expensive.
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Political ideology is the biggest threat to Britain’s railways
This catch-22 creates simplistic, unsolvable debates in the public sphere: with such competing, rigid principles, no one can be happy with the compromise.
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