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Sidney Sussex says it is ‘progressive and inclusive’ in response to Christian fundamentalist event criticism
EXCLUSIVE: Trinity tops Tompkins Table for seventh straight year
CUSU ‘outraged’ as Sidney Sussex hosts Christian fundamentalist group
Could you be a Varsity columnist?
“We benefit greatly from our diverse community” a spokesperson said, as the College’s student union condemned the event
Ibrahim Metwaly Hegazy appeared before prosecutors on Tuesday evening charged with managing an illegal group
Freshers
What’s a pidge? What’s a plodge? Who is Cindy? Violet’s in-depth guide to quirky Cambridge slang has you covered
Whether you are drinking or otherwise, it won’t be your most memorable week here, says Danny Wittenberg
The star is just slightly larger in size than Saturn, and could be used to detect other Earth-sized planets
Aditya Guha uses his guesstimate skills to find out
How to survive Cambridge Freshers’ Week
Formal education: how to save the Queen and tell your truffles from terrine
Do I really need to read my reading list?
Four friends and 64 pubs: how we did the ultimate Cambridge crawlWhether you are drinking or otherwise, it won’t be your most memorable week here, says Danny Wittenberg
Contemporary art and Hong Kong
Stewart Lee: ‘I think that Oxford and Cambridge are to blame for a lot of this’
Street art, subversion and urban space
Alice Garner leads us through Hong Kong’s burgeoning contemporary art scene in an effort to shed light on the city’s paradoxical identity
Against the backdrop of legal graffiti walls, Emma Slater probes the history of the street art movement back to its roots in visual subversion
Finding film: A fresher’s guide to Cambridge cinema
Bake Off Week Three: Dawn of the Bread
Moral trauma in Fleabag: a tragicomical retrospective
Questioning the climax: love and loss in Twin Peaks
We’ve tried and tested every cinema, screen, and chair in Cambridge
TV
Having subverted tropes and won a BAFTA, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s remarkable first season tempts Daniel Gayne to look back and reflect on what made it a standout, somewhat twisted, comedic hit
Review: Nothing But Thieves – Broken Machine
Review: Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
Review: Alvvays – Antisocialites
Review
These English rockers return with their heavy guitar and a more carved out sound in an impressive second album.
Review
Wolf Alice’s second album brings a mixture of new influences, with mostly successful results, finds Josh Kimblin
New York Fashion Week: the highlights
Typography: innovation or appropriation?
Venice Film Festival: best style moments
Fashion for all: the return of collaborations
Looking back at New York Fashion Week, Kate Hammond lists her top moments courtesy of some of the world’s best designers
Kate Hammond gives us her favourite style moments from the annual Venice Film Festival
Laughs and a leaky tent: My week at the Edinburgh Fringe
Review: The House They Grew Up In at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre
Review: HYPROV at the Fringe
Don’t say the ‘G’ word! Why gimmicks don’t mean good drama
FEATURE
“Absurd adaptations and secret venues alike, all are money-making ploys that serve little purpose other than to get bums on seats.”
REVIEW
Joe Foye is moved by this powerful piece of new writing by Deborah Bruce, which marks one of the high points of Daniel Evans’s inaugural season as Artistic Director at Chichester 5 stars
Varsity‘s guide to Cambridge sport
St Edmund’s College rowers break world record
Time to kick rugby’s cross-continental experiment into touch?
Labour needs to raise the stakes in its battle against gambling sponsorship in football
A team of four rowers from St Edmund’s has broken the world record in the ‘Longest Continual Row’ category by over an hour
Unsure of how to tackle sport at Cambridge? Lawrence Hopkins guides you through your first weeks
COMMENT
Eoghan McKenna
Drinking societies still have a place in university life
With many freshers on the verge of being confronted with drinking societies for the first time, Eoghan McKenna argues that they’re merely an expression of our wider drinking culture
Holly Firmin
Changes to Arts Council funding will give the marginalised a voice
The decision to cut funding to the ‘Big Four’ institutions, and give money to the regions and to marginalised groups should be celebrated
Isabelle Burroughes
Are we justified in criticising China’s dog meat festival?
Daisy Eyre
We need to stop the marketisation of our universities
Alice Millington
Coyne’s apology is ill-considered and inadequate
Jay Vinayak Ojha
Cambridge University Press should never bow down to China’s censorship again
Eve Hodgson
An embarrassing class problem is at the centre of the Coyne affair
Sarah Wilson
Why not a women only music festival?
Ellie Williams
Eating disorders are more complex than To The Bone shows
Alexander Russell
The paper thin line between appropriation and appreciation