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Trinity to pay £24,000 to repair vandalised Balfour portrait
Two arrested after death of Cambridge language school student 
Buoygues UK have been chosen as the main construction partner of the first specialist children’s hospital in the East of England
The SU addressed the Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as well as MPs Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Bridget Phillipson, via an open letter
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The painting was slashed and spray-painted by Palestine Action activists in March last year, but the police have since closed its investigation
One activist accused MP Daniel Zeichner of ‘[toeing] the genocidal party line’
The shake-up follows the cancellation of the 2025 festival, after losses of more than £320,000 in 2024
The victim was a student at EF International Language Campuses Cambridge
The painting was slashed and spray-painted by Palestine Action activists in March last year, but the police have since closed its investigation
One activist accused MP Daniel Zeichner of ‘[toeing] the genocidal party line’
Jonathan Liu takes a peek behind the scenes of Cambridge’s museums to explore their hidden collections
Opinion
Amid relentless routine, Abril Duarte González implores you to craft
Review
Francis McCabe takes a look back at the BBC’s livestream of Glastonbury 2025
College Rowing
Louise Crary delves into inequalities between college boat clubs, and the lives and worries of rowers at the poorest clubs on the Cam
The community Cambridge accommodation creates (and doesn’t)
‘We’re not just storage’: inside Cambridge’s museum collections
Selling the Cambridge experience: private summer programmes in the historic university 
What it’s like to be an underage student at Cambridge
Student Life
Georgie Middlemiss examines the quiet cost of Cambridge accommodation without shared living spaces
Jonathan Liu takes a peek behind the scenes of Cambridge’s museums to explore their hidden collections
Emma Tenzler explores privately provided summer programmes in Cambridge
Georgie Middlemiss revisits Cambridge Pride and explores the divergence between town and University in its celebration
Student Life
Eve Nicholls investigates how injured students face challenges on college grounds
Bibi Boyce explores the trials and tribulations of the lost and found bins of Cambridge
Student Life
Grace Howell explores the home Cambridge can provide to ‘third-culture-kids’
Aaron Syposz explores how local winemaking has been impacted by climate change and improved knowhow
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In Conversation with the President of Cambridge Rape Justice
‘Just ridiculously, relentlessly, curious’: Kate Romano on breathing life into the creative arts
A place to Thrive: Cambridge’s all-vegan café and community hub
Meet Miyuki Watanabe: Japanese diplomat and Cambridge student
Lorna Beal on combining activism, student community and her comedic experience to found CRJ.
Quickfire
Tara Buxton discusses everything from scepticism to scrambled tofu in a conversation with Thrive Café
Jasmine Heddle-Bacon and Vienna Kwan meet the man behind Portraits of Philosophers
Vienna Kwan sits down with Thomas ‘TJ’ Jones to discuss how a military man hoping to become the mayor of Baltimore ended up at Cambridge.
Jack Marley sits down with Kate Romano to discuss her journey to leading arts centre Stapleford Granary
Quickfire
Vienna Kwan sits down with Miyuki Watanabe, a Cambridge student and Japanese diplomat
How an administration is ruining science
Nessa Yip discusses the last six months in science in the wake of Trump’s decisions
Lucy George discusses whether or not multi-vitamins are going to rescue us during term-time
Nessa Yip explains the progress made by neuroscience towards answering a question at the centre of the human experience
‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’ – Starship flight 9 ends in a fireball
Maya Kunchur takes a look at how exam term and May Week affect your body – and how to minimise the damage
Jenny Jiang gives an insight into the everyday fruits that can pose lethal threats
The job hunt: a fruitless search?
Why don’t you write me a letter?
Break-ups in the bubble
Keeping the spark alive (platonic edition)
Guide
Janella Scott gives us the lowdown on finding that perfect summer employment
Notebook
Gabrielle El Saraway reflects on the lost art of sending letters to loved ones
Guide
Read Zainab’s advice for managing post-breakup fallout in a community like Cambridge
Let Gabrielle gently guide you through the small beauties of Cambridge
Guide
A guide to maintaining long-distance friendships while at Cambridge
Notebook
Jess Gotterson reflects on the importance of college wellbeing days in Easter term
Our big, fat annotation addiction
‘Farewell to a Lady’: home thoughts from afar
William Morris’ little-known labours in Cambridge
Feature
Niall Quinn argues that physical annotation is here to stay
Feature
Jasper Finlay Burnside thinks of home, Cambridge, and the gulf between the two
Opinion
Amid relentless routine, Abril Duarte González implores you to craft
Opinion
Rachel Jones uses Shakespeare to reflect on her first year
Feature
William Morris’ tiles at Queens’ are just as enduring as his more popular works, argues Otto Bajwa-Greenwood
Interview
Johana Trejtnar quizzes Cambridge illustrator Roxana de Rond about making art about quotidian matters
Swimming in style
Guide
Ellie Buckley offers a guide to swimwear to get us poolside ready
Feature
Joanne Yau explores the colonisation of fashion in formal settings, and how this can be seen in the dress code for graduation
Opinion
Ellie Buckley muses on smoking becoming fashion’s favourite vice
Trial and Error
Ellie Buckley trials a lip stain to see if reapplying lipstick is a thing of the past
Opinion
Niamh Walters explores how the tradwife aesthetic dresses up a conservative ideology
Guide
Irina Echim offers a summer bag guide, to get us tote-ally ready for the sunshine
Horror’s new narrative: Behind the scenes of Oxpecker
With Gaslight, Shaira Berg tackles an uncomfortably present issue 
HBO’S Harry Potter will unfortunately succeed – but what will this mean a decade from now?
Interview
Lara Davis interviews the cast and crew behind the student horror film Oxpecker
Opinion
Daisy Simpson explores what we can learn when we return to our childhood favourites
Interview
Elspeth White interviews Shaira Berg the mind behind the play turned film Gaslight
Watchlist
Ruby Randall embraces the transience of the summer with these travelling recommendations
Opinion
Josh Pritchard reflects on the beginnings of HBO’s Harry Potter reboot
Review
Jacob Smith reviews Boyle’s latest addition to his post-apocalytic universe
Genre’s dead. Long live Jim Legxacy
Quick, cut the cameras! Crossing the lines of free speech onstage 
Album Review
Seun Ige on the ‘sonic boldness’ of Jim Legxacy’s Black British Music
Review
Francis McCabe takes a look back at the BBC’s livestream of Glastonbury 2025
Opinion
Feuds settled, parkas donned – Ben Curtis gives the lowdown on what Oasis’ reunion means for Britain
Feature
Take a trip back in time with Daisy Bates and the sugar-sweet pop of 2015
Feature
The streets of Cambridge are storied with musical history, says Daniel Kamaluddin
Live Review
Francis McCabe weighs up the newest and most haunting dramatic collision of the RSC’s Hamlet with Radiohead’s album Hail to the Thief
One year, many stages: the fresher actors behind Cambridge theatre
Footlights’ Helen Brookes on all things comedy 
Bread, circuses, and The Hunger Games on stage
Interview
Kate Woodman sits down with Footlights member Helen Brookes to discuss Smokers Events, her first time doing sketches and the importance of women in comedy
Preview
Daisy Bates sits down with the writers of the Fringe-bound musical 1816: The Year Without a Summer
Interview
Kaitlyn Butterly sits down with acclaimed freshers stars Jude King, Kaitlin Pryce, and Rosie Nicol to discuss their first year in Cambridge theatre
Unsure of what shows to see during the UK’s biggest theatre festivals? Daphne Stavride has you covered!
Feature
Leon Rake breaks down the intricacies of dating a thespian, offering a few words of wisdom (and some ibuprofen) along the way
Feature
Kaitlyn Butterly hosts a costume designer roundtable
‘A full-time job with overtime’: should disparities change the way we approach Bumps?
College Rowing
Louise Crary delves into inequalities between college boat clubs, and the lives and worries of rowers at the poorest clubs on the Cam
Tennis
Imani Schawsmidth discusses the controversy – and potential underlying politics – behind the handling of Jannik Sinner’s recent doping scandal
Football
Oscar O’Neill dives into the controversy surrounding this year’s expanded Club World Cup
Football
After attending this engaging seminar series, Barney Blackburn offers a host of lessons learnt on football writing
Interview
Varsity record-holder Bea Wood sits down with Louise Crary
Sports Awards
Joss Heddle-Bacon reports on a crowning afternoon for the light blues’ finest
COMMENT
Elsie McDowell
What the civil service has got wrong about class
Elsie McDowell argues that the Civil Service’s new class-based internship is widening access done wrong
Katie Nicholson
Are degrees still worth it?
Katie Nicholson argues that, even with universities under scrutiny, degrees remain worthwhile
Daisy Stewart Henderson
I stand by my sixteen-year-old self’s vote
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that allowing sixteen-year-olds to vote doesn’t have to be a radical prospect
Ben Lubitsh
Stop disarming people of their nuance
Ben Lubitsh argues that Cambridge students are not always willing to engage in complex debates in an open-minded way
Ben Curtis
The next Chancellor has their work cut out for them
Ben Curtis argues that the new Chancellor must prioritise reconciling students at the University
Jamilla Wichmann
What is originality, anyway?
Jamilla Wichmann argues that the emphasis on originality in the humanities at Cambridge can have harmful side effects