As more and more student churches become focused on flashy performances, Esther Arthurson argues that some of the beautiful simplicity of faith has been lost
How do we apply the queer theory we learn in lectures to real life? Maddy Browne discusses the importance of theory in the face of government negligence
COMMENT
Maddy Browne
Prosecco socialism?
Colleges should spend less money on free drink receptions, and more on the things that actually matter
Sam Nicholson
When did a trip to the shop become so dystopian?
We must tackle the roots as well as the symptoms of economic despair, argues Sam Nicholson
Alice Mainwood
Can Cambridge get International Women’s Day right?
Katie Heggs
Is this the end of (Union) democracy?
Calum Murray
The Gaza vote crisis reveals parliament’s deep dysfunction
Emily Kelly
How to solve Cambridge’s postgraduate housing crisis
Elsie McDowell
One u turn too far?
Matthew Taylor
A sick perspective on the workload problem
Ruby Cline
May Ball Committees, you’re not the new James Joyce
Maddy Browne
The power of words in queer relationships
Jack Deasley
The education system is broken – doing 28 A-levels won’t fix it
Manhoor Cheema’s story reveals a darker side to the British educational system
Maddy Browne
The trap of apathy and creating our own politics
Even when student life gets too much, we can still find ways to connect to our lives as citizens
Omar Burhanuddin
Cambridge has a racism problem, and we should be angry about it
Alex Parton-Turner
I do not consider myself a victim. The boy who stabbed me does
Ruby Cline
Cambridge has ruined our love languages
Katie Heggs
What an awful time to study politics!
Omar Burhanuddin
Do you listen to your college choir?
Patrick Dolan
First-degree murder: how Cambridge killed my perfectionism
Hugh Jones
In defence of selling out
Ruby Cline
Full-time work after university isn’t a gap year
Lauren Bird
Public elf Crisis?
The government’s proposed disposable vape ban is merely a convenient distraction from more urgent public health issues, Lauren Bird argues
Faye Harrison
Male students ‘can’t’ cook or clean, and I fear for the future
Cambridge reinforces the ‘weaponised incompetence’ of young men, argues Faye Harrison
Hannah Mawardi
Pembroke gave me sesame three times. It’s time we start taking allergies seriously.
Will McLaughlin
SU meetings are just too boring
Lauren Bird
How Labour can mobilise the student vote
Matthew Taylor
Cambridge access schemes have become box-ticking exercises
Emily Kelly
Turing and the Typewriter
Maddy Browne
Graveyard Offices and Haunted Students
Matthew Taylor
The importance of making Cambridge home
Ruby Cline
Lent term isn’t so bad after all
Faye Harrison
Social smoking isn’t about image, it’s about community
Smokers don’t care about how cool they look, but about bonding with their friends, argues Faye Harrison
Hugh Jones
Cambridge students don’t realise how lucky they are
Hugh Jones argues that many critiques of the university administration are overblown
Will McLaughlin
Cambridge student welfare has a bureaucracy problem
Miranda Evans
You’re a pseudo-intellectual, let Twitter be your soundboard
Maddy Browne
Student spaces are what we make of them
Omar Burhanuddin
The unspoken problems of small, central colleges
Emily Lawson-Todd
Fear and loathing in South Yorkshire
Katie Heggs
Oxbridge is what you make of it
Patrick Dolan
In defence of our free will
Martha Dacombe
Progressives need something to say about the digital revolution
Esther Arthurson
Bring back that silent night
As more and more student churches become focused on flashy performances, Esther Arthurson argues that some of the beautiful simplicity of faith has been lost
Maddy Browne.
How to queer your life when the government won’t
How do we apply the queer theory we learn in lectures to real life? Maddy Browne discusses the importance of theory in the face of government negligence
Aenghus Hughes
Abolish at-interview admissions assessments
Caitlin Rajan
The Myth of Perfect Consumption
Hannah Gillott
Let Cambridge drinking culture off the hook
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head-to-head: in person interviews
Hugh Jones
If Peterhouse is a charity, then so are private schools
Hannah Gillott
What on earth is a ‘girl desk’?
Olive Watt
Section 28: 20 years since repeal, how much has really changed?
Aenghus Hughes
Is the return of David Cameron really what the nation needs?
Ezra Izer
When money talks too loudly…the case of ego-billionaires
The rise of the vocal celebrity rich raises serious questions over who we should really be listening to, says Ezra Izer
Head to Head
Head to head: tripos rankings
Love them or hate them, they’re one click away on Camsis. Hugh Jones and Maddy Browne argue about whether tripos rankings rank top or bottom for them.
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge puts the ‘late’ into ‘fashionably late’
Ezra Izer
The Cambridge cocktail: ethanol and elitism
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge colleges have a clique problem
Heidi Atkins
SSRIs and I
Patrick Dolan
It’s not just week five when we’re feeling blue
Matthew Taylor
Does Lucy Cavendish’s egalitarian intake conceal an uglier truth?
Izzy Benardout Ezra Izer
Head to head: how to spend first year
Tom Moran
JCRs can be a force for good
Alice Mainwood
It’s ok not to know it all
As another term of academic rigour rolls in, Alice Mainwood argues that we shouldn’t feel as though we need to be full-formed academics just yet.
Maddy Browne
It’s time for universities to shift money from the top
Secondary schools are in the grips of multiple crises. Higher education seems fit to follow, argues Maddy Browne
Lauren Cotter
The rise of the far right in British politics
Micheal Allan
Returning from intermission can be joyful
Aenghus Hughes
A Tale of two conferences
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head to head: Are Potter shops magic or tragic?
Daniel Hilton
You’re not an intellectual powerhouse, you’re a student with a Twitter account
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge is just London 2.0
Lucia Quadrini
The myth of university rankings
Hugh Jones
How to fix the SU? Build a bar
Izzy Benardout
Prep weeks: what are they good for?
As more and more colleges introduce prep weeks into their freshers’ programme, prep week veteran Izzy Benardout discusses their merits
Martha Dacombe
Please can we all stop going on Hinge
Dating apps are the illusion of sexual liberation masking a shift to marketplace relationships
Ziyana Kotadia
The living legacy of misogyny at Cambridge
Emily Lawson-Todd
Respect must go both ways
Izzy Benardout
Celebrating faith away from home
Head-to-Head
Freshers’ week: best week ever or severely overrated?
Hugh Jones
Open days must be less opaque
Suchir Salhan
Prentice must address Cambridge’s geopolitical crisis, rather than free speech
Lauren Cotter
The public sector’s misogyny crisis
Liza Voloboeva
Is Cambridge really Cambridge?
Jude Crawley
Oops! They did it again
The MMLL faculty’s decision to change exam format suddenly is a case study of institutional disregard for undergraduates
Anna Metzger
Climate criminals have no place in higher education
The University needs to stop accepting donations from fossil fuel companies, argues Anna Metzger
Hannah Gillott
The problem with the Great British scandal
Maddy Browne
What a return to Pride has reminded me about queer liberation
Naima Clarvis
The ironies of the Oxbridge summer school
Jude Crawley
Students should have the right to move away from home
Sophie Denny
Lucy Letby, an unlikely murderer?
Aenghus Hughes
Meteoric rises of the Metro Mayors
Izzy Benardout
Maybe the MAB hasn’t been all that bad
Emily Lawson-Todd
Don’t diss the dissertation
Hugh Jones
Down with dissertations
Dissertations are training students for academic jobs that most undergraduates don’t want
Katie Heggs
A working girl’s guide to Cambridge summer
Not all students can afford the privilege of multiple holidays or prestigious internships over the long vacation, argues Katie Heggs
Isabel Dempsey
‘Keep off the grass’ is not really a sexist remark
Daniel Hilton
Don’t blame Ghose for ballot stuffing, blame Tory Britain
Katie Heggs
Barbieland or Kendom? Girlhood in Cambridge
Suchir Salhan
Sham graduations and the farce of provisional results
Emily Lawson-Todd
Student spaces are more important than colleges’ profits
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore
The strikes make it harder to defend the humanities
Aenghus Hughes
Glad to be History’s ‘guinea pig’
James Lewis
How to learn a language nobody wants to hear
Heidi Atkins
Breaking the spiking taboo
A comprehensive guide to coping with the harrowing experience of being intravenously drugged.
Ria Patel
Ignored and let down: being Deaf at Cambridge
The University desperately needs better disability training so it can actively support its students
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge is a bubble-wrapped play set
Katie Heggs
Reflections on a year in student politics
Maia Livne
Notebook: Champagne and socialism in the Carolean age
Izzy Benardout
Notebook: A fresh(er’s) perspective on time in Cambridge
Sarah Adegbite
Notebook: Our memories of Cambridge are precious – treasure them
Sam Hudson
Deplatforming doesn’t work
Joe Parsons
The right wing press doesn’t understand meritocracy
Christoffer Koch Andersen
Free speech does not mean hate speech
Hugh Jones
It’s time for the University to get tough over the marking boycott
The UCU has taken our support for years. Now they’re using our futures as a bargaining chip
Harvey Brown
We won’t be graduating unless vice-chancellors stop holding our education hostage
Cambridge has the power to help bring the dispute to an end. They should use it
Hanna D
Pole dancing doesn’t have to be sexual
Joseph Duffy
Accountability doesn’t come on a silver platter: we must fight for it
Esther Arthurson
Can Christianity survive another scandal?
Head to Head
Labour’s ‘attack ads’: Clever campaigning or cheap name-calling?
Alex Horan
Cambridge’s left wing men are misogynistic too
Anonymous Supervisor
‘An opaque, irrational mess’: the truth behind supervising
Head to Head
Easter Term: Exam-fuelled gaslighting or summer freedom
Honour de Pledge
Cambridge should be proud of its bursary programs
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