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Joseph Costello

Indigo Music 

Live review: Richard Dawson @ Durham Miners’ Hall

March 3, 2018March 2, 2018 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

“I can talk of an evening equal in its beauty and strangeness… there is something unashamedly absurd about many of the arrangements on Dawson’s songs, which truly dance around at times like shanties written in medieval Britain.”

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Featured Politics UK Politics 

Palatinate Politics Interview – Nicky Morgan MP

February 9, 2017February 8, 2017 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

On 27th January, Palatinate Politics spoke with Nicky Morgan MP. The Former Education Secretary was in Durham to give an address to the Conservative Association.

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Indigo Music 

The xx ‘I See You’: A la carte music menu

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

How is best to enjoy the album? Is it likely to soundtrack the Pimms and lemonade of Wimbledon 2017? Or should you keep it ready in the back with the bottle of Pernod black for when darkness descends? Here is Joseph Costello’s guide.

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Featured Opinion Politics UK Politics World Politics 

Palatinate Politics: Biggest Moments of 2016

December 31, 2016December 31, 2016 Online Editor 0 Comments Joseph Costello, Laura Tidd, Martha Muir, Mason Boycott-Owen, Nathan Cinnamond, Tania Chakraborti

After perhaps the most tumultuous year in politics since the turn of the millennium, Palatinate Politics contributors and editors look back and their pick of the most significant moments of the year.

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Opinion Politics Print Edition UK Politics 

The Return of the Green Party: A Progressive Alliance

October 25, 2016October 25, 2016 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

In September, The Green Party elected in Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, two leaders to the helm of the party. This new step in the process of leading a major political party (And yes, I say that without irony) could well recalculate how we think about politics in the country.

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Opinion Politics 

This Is the End for the Super-Injunction

April 20, 2016April 21, 2016 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

I’m going to say it: this is the end of the Super Injunction. There, I said it.

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Opinion Politics UK Politics 

John McTernan Can Do One.

April 12, 2016 sub.editors 0 Comments Joseph Costello

I simply snigger in disbelief every time I hear about the risible tax revenues from companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Starbucks.

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