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University’s £1 billion development begins to take shape
Join the Varsity Team in Michaelmas 2017
Marking mix-up sees students receiving wrong grades
Analysis: How did the University end up with a £21 million deficit?
Applications are now open to be a part of Varsity next Michaelmas Term
The University of Cambridge has become one of only eight Russell Group institutions to be given the top ranking under the new Teaching Excellence Framework
Why Cambridge is organising a Sustainable Food Challenge
May Ball Review: Downing
May Ball Review: Jesus
May Ball Review: Magdalene
May Ball Review: Pembroke
Review
Richard Assheton on how Jesus College May Ball’s ‘Between the Lines’ took guests on an adventure through literature
Review
Peter Chappell comments on how Downing College May Ball was able to provide the perfect in-between for everyone
Emma Thompson: ‘Don’t pretend that this world is equal – it’s not. It’s a patriarchy’
Lara Prendergast: ‘We’re increasingly living in our own echo chambers’
Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds at Downing’s Heong Gallery
Tea with Mary Berry
Interview
Anna Menin and Clara van Wel meet the Newnham alumna to talk comedy and failure. And the female orgasm.
The former Director of the British Museum discusses the historical relationship between faith and society with Josh Kimblin
Best Director: The Wonderful World of Wes
TV Round-Up: ‘White Gold’
Best Horror: ‘The Shining’
VARSITY FILM SURVEY 2017
With Wes Anderson’s latest feature in the works, Robert Crawford takes an admiring look back over the works of his, and, according to our 2017 survey, Cambridge’s, favourite film director
FILM
The latest addition to the DC canon has largely been applauded; Pany Heliotis contributes a more critical opinion on this popcorn delight of superhero action
Classical music’s diversity crisis: time to change the tune
What does BTS’s Billboard Music Award mean for K-Pop? Not much
Besides: five albums for the summer
BESIDES
Columnist Ben Adams tells us about the records he’ll have on repeat this summer
Sam Brown speaks to Chi-chi Nwanoku, founder of Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians
Ballet and Balmain: a match made in heaven
Cruelty-free is the future, faux sure
Robyn Schaffer explains the crossover between the worlds of fashion and dance, in relation to Balmain’s recent collaboration with the Paris Opera Ballet
In a world where we all want to have the best of everything, Robyn Schaffer considers whether designer labels are worth the hype
Review: Bitch Slapped by my Moon Cup… and Other Ways in Which Adulthood Is Not What I Expected
Review: The Language Archive
Louder than words: embracing the regional accent
Dream Sequence: one part rock & roll, one part bangers & mash
REVIEW
“A joyous peek into the backstory of an American transplant whose childhood involved Mormonism and goldfish in the freezer”: Yung In Chae was impressed by this human performance
REVIEW
Vanessa Braganza was impressed by this ‘very clever adaptation of an Agatha Christie classic’
Queenswood reign over Cambridge in Varsity warm-up
LIVE – Varsity one-day match
Cambridge Blues outclassed by Essex in Varsity warm-up
‘A lot of factors come into play – it’s very unpredictable’: 2s Varsity tennis preview
Follow play-by-play updates as Oxford and Cambridge take each other on at Lord’s
Imran Marashli sat down with the captains of the Grasshoppers and Ladybirds, to preview a big weekend for Cambridge tennis.
COMMENT
Alexander Russell
The paper thin line between appropriation and appreciation
We should welcome attempts to engage with non-Western culture, even if we must acknowledge their flaws
Elizabeth Howcroft
Like Cambridge, May Balls are financially exclusive
Elizabeth Howcroft looks at the paradox of access officers in white tie, and asks whether May Balls perpetuate a culture of exclusivity and entitlement
Harry Robertson
Corbyn has done what no Blairite could do
Roger Mosey
The mainstream media isn’t perfect, but we should cherish it
Sarah Wilson
It’s a myth that hard work is all you need to succeed
Daisy Eyre
Why now is the time to get excited about CUSU
Lauren Carneiro
The Grenfell Tower fire shames our society
Lola Olufemi
Postcolonial writing is not an afterthought; it is British literature
Lauren Carneiro
Oxford’s non-white, non-European history paper does not go far enough
Ed McNally
Corbyn’s departure from the centre has been vindicated