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I run the English-language Twitter page for VfL Bochum 1848, a 2. Bundesliga (hopefully soon to be Bundesliga) side. It’s part of my Year Abroad and something I get a great amount of joy from. It’s an account with just shy of 2000 followers and predominantly produces a wonderfully supportive community. People of all ages and nationalities brought together by their love of a former Bundesliga institution, based fifteen minutes down the road from Dortmund. Recently, Bochum got the 2. Bundesliga’s weekly slot on BT Sport. Despite being six points clear at the top of the table, we collapsed...

Last term, Palatinate revealed that trials will begin next academic year to assess the viability of a ‘hybrid working’ approach. Now over a year into university online learning, Palatinate Comment asked two contributors for their opinion on the proposal. For: a well-considered new working regime would bring net benefits As we start to enter a post-coronavirus world, many will be wondering what we should take forward with us into the ‘new normal’ that is set to follow. Very little will likely be the answer, with many keen to jettison social distancing, lockdowns, and mask-wearing, no...

I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) two years ago. It triggered something of an identity crisis. By default, autism had been a fundamental part of who I am despite knowing virtually nothing about it, either within myself or in the wider world. I was forced to reassess every part of my life. I’ve always loved reading. In hindsight, I realise that as a child I probably found it much easier to immerse myself in fictional worlds than to understand the real one. It’s not that other people had a particular aversion towards me, or me to them. We just weren’t on the same wavelen...

No one likes to lose a break-up. Nearly five years after pulling off the most outlandishly one-sided divorce settlement since Henry VIII made state-mandated headlessness valid grounds for separation, David Cameron’s suspiciously featureless mug is back on our front pages. He got the house, the kids, and the tent in Saudi Arabia, and we got a border in the Irish Sea and Eton’s finest silly putty in a poorly-kept wig. A man so famous for apologising that the New York Times’ review of his recent memoir was headlined ‘David Cameron is sorry. Really, really sorry’, Cameron has spectacula...

The plans for a European Super League (ESL), announced by 12 of the proposed founder clubs in a quite literal midnight coup on 19 th April, present very legitimate grounds to proclaim ‘the game’s gone’. Despite its rapid, inevitable collapse, the leading lights within these twelve clubs are all united by one thing; not only does this outrage not bother them, it doesn’t even affect them. Fans across the UK are hailing their newfound power. Above everything, they want to believe it was down to them. Despite the clubs’ blatant disdain and disregard for their local fanbases, fans are st...