Ben joined The Tab in January 2024, working as a contributing writer for four months before being promoted to Editor-in-Chief. Ben worked at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph during a July 2024 internship in the sports journalism department.
Ben is a second-year History BA student at Durham University, about to advance into his third year of study. Ben is primarily interested in the socio-economic history of interwar Britain and the changing political landscape of the rural United States in the late twentieth century.
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Dan Lonsdale outlined support for roughly 100 freshers who are looking for private accommodation
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Inside: The date of opening night, exclusive images of the venue and the number of toilets
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It surely has been one to remember
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Exeter screams Sambas
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