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The £34m plans involve building four new accommodation blocks and refurbishing two others
News in depth
A Sudanese offer holder called the policy ‘a blanket restriction that ends up punishing genuine students’
Brittin, a Robinson alumnus, will take over from Tim Davie, who studied at Selwyn
The Rokos School will begin operating in autumn 2026
Jesus College’s resident deer has been relocated after displaying aggressive behaviour
Match Report
Ben Madden reports on the men’s 2026 Varsity football fixture from a jubilant Grange Road
Keane Handley reports as Oxford overcome Cambridge in a hard-fought 2-1 win
Lord Chris Smith said the government needed to ‘work an awful lot better’ for students with plan 2 loans
Review
Ella Hardy argues that this production reimagines and redefines the limits of Shakespeare’s classic play 4.5 stars
I’m keeping the em dash
Reframing the anti-AI ‘performance’
The anti-AI performance at Cambridge 
Not all is beautiful in the death of the ‘golden ticket’
Ruby Livingston
Ruby Livingston re-examines the opposition to AI, arguing that it’s rooted in legitimate political concern
April O'Neill
April O’Neill argues that the em dash should not fall victim to the AI takeover
Abril Duarte González
Abril Duarte González argues that what we call ‘common knowledge’ is often just cultural proximity
Abril Duarte González
Abril Duarte González dissects what truly lies behind Cambridge’s resistance to AI
Unmilan Kalita
Unmilan Kalita argues that the instability of a university degree should be cause for concern
Lily Owens
Lily Owens argues that debating cuture bears responsibilities in the digital age of politics
The rise of the June Event 
Hyper-productive or healthy? The rise of wellness culture at Cambridge
The hidden harms of college stereotypes 
Heavy is the head: the pressures of leading a student society
Eleanor Baldwin asks event presidents why colleges are seeking alternatives to May Balls
Francesca Evans weighs up student, professor and influencer perspectives on Cambridge’s unique wellness culture
Beth Lee talks to the presidents of student societies about how they juggle their role and their degree
Mimi Ronson explores the general fog that surrounds student knowledge of the kidneys
Francesca Evans delves into the diverse ways students save money amid inflation and college limitations
Poppy McBeath speaks to students about the negative impacts of college clichés on Cambridge life and beyond
Daisy Stewart Henderson and Frida Bradbrook speak to Cambridge students about their relationship to patriotism
Lydia Bearne talks to students about whether calories on college menus are harmful or handy
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Inside the chess revolution with grandmaster David Howell
Cambridge SU presidents on divestment, engagement and the role’s challenges
Antony Stokes on the Foreign Office, Mars and LinkedIn 
Giovanni Lacroix talks with the chess commentator about the impact of social media and esports on the age-old game
Quickfire
Lucy Thomas sits down with Students’ Union presidents to learn more about the position
Quickfire
Hannah Burfield sits down with Katie Burge to explore her rising film career
Isadora Vargas Mafort talks to Simon Fraser about his leap from engineer to coffee shop visionary
Quickfire
Vienna Kwan sits down with Antony Stokes to discuss all things diplomacy
Tara Buxton talks to Cambridge’s smell expert about the importance of challenging our olfactory aversions
Are you genuinely entering a flow state?
A day in the life of a Nature Editor
Is the sex of an embryo entirely up to chance?
Ruby Jackson dives into the biology behind TikTok’s favourite buzzword
Ellie Davies explores the science of sex determination, and whether it’s as random as we think
Asha Torczon explores how the eradication of parasites may have made us more vulnerable to immune disease
The science writers share the journeys of the women in science who have inspired them for Women’s History Month
Yu Tong Lim and Ruby Jackson cover some of the latest scientific research
Blind Date: ‘I lived to tell the tale!’
How to escape the holiday with a will to live
‘Oh-oh, we’re halfway there!’
Side-hustling through a Cambridge degree
Guide
Holly Hardman gives her top tips for navigating stress and rest this Easter Holiday
Blind Date
Master’s students, Jay and YC, meet for a blind date
Feature
Jess Gotterson dethrones punting as the superior watersport
Notebook
Ell Heeps reflects on having half of her degree behind her
Quiz
Georgia Gooding theorises on how you’ll regress while back at home
Feature
Scarlett Prunty considers what lessons we can learn from the changing of the seasons
Review
Mia Apfel reviews the meeting of past and present in a new exhibition
Review
Mara Zaharia reviews Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist work
Review
Ollie Liversedge discusses the latest edition of Cambridge Review of Books
Interview
Rachel Jones gets involved with zine-making in Newnham
Here comes the sun!
A taste of the glamorous life
All that glitters is gold (or silver)
Scarlett Prunty shares her top tips for navigating springtime weather and its accompanying wardrobes
Feature
Matilda Billinge explains how the power of fashion helped to transform Addison Rae’s identity
Guide
Minnie Peters unpacks her makeup bag and builds you the ideal everyday beauty routine
Feature
Jess Gotterson and Flossie Bullion sit down with the president and vice-president of Cambridge University Charity Fashion Show
Matilda Billinge rejects single-metal monotony and argues that gold and silver are friends not foes
Lily Sandell educates us all on the benefits of dopamine dressing, for the mind and for the soul
Life is not a Godard film
Opinion
Heidi Lewis re-evaluates various cinematic attempts to adapt classic texts
Interview
Otto Bajwa Greenwood talks to Finlay Wyer about Silver Street Productions
Feature
Forget the Oscars – Peter Adams shows us a different breed of awards ceremony
Feature
Ruby Redwood and Dan Porritt return to classic Hollywood to ask how memory works
Review
Annabelle Werner attends the Cambridge Ukrainian Society’s documentary screening
A spring in your step and songs for the new season
‘Two Heads on Stage’: Inside the Cambridge Lieder Scheme
Trans musicians aren’t denying their biology, they’re owning it
Playlist
Bix Ponte has your fix of tracks to soundtrack this sometimes-sunny, sometimes-bedrizzled spring
Interview
Isabel Lee sits down with two Lieder Scheme duos to talk through partnership and performance
Review
Charlotte Crawley reviews Acis and Galatea at the Senate House
Playlist
Caitlin Newman examines the artistic prowess of trans+ artists and the personal freedom music can bring
Guide
Charlotte Thomann says guidebooks are a thing of the past, we should be listening instead
Lauren Quinn defends opera and ballet from Chalamet’s internet-dividing comments
It doesn’t really matter (and that’s the point)
What’s in a costume? 
Inside the double life of a thespian student 
Hamlet in the Chapel: Shakespeare, sanctified 
Feature
Elsie Hayward gives her guide for how to make the most of Cambridge theatre
Opinion
Nabiha Ali suggests costume plays a tangible role as an interpretative tool in theatre
Feature
Barney Sayburn explores the difficult realtities of juggling drama and degree
Review
James Critchley argues this production comes alive with its arresting performances
Review
Ella Hardy argues that this production reimagines and redefines the limits of Shakespeare’s classic play 4.5 stars
Interview
Francesca Evans sits down with comedians Flora Maxwell and Grace Wakeman to talk about their solo comedy shows
Cambridge Men prevail on the Thames for fourth year running while Oxford Women take back crown
Tristan Sykes reports from the Tideway on the 2026 Boat Race
Harry Mclusky and Nicholas Hall report from the Cam on the term’s pinnacle inter-collegiate sporting contest
Match Report
Ben Madden reports on the men’s 2026 Varsity football fixture from a jubilant Grange Road
Keane Handley reports as Oxford overcome Cambridge in a hard-fought 2-1 win
Ben Madden reports as Cambridge put an end to Oxford’s undefeated basketball season
Ben Madden reports as Cambridge’s resilience could not stem Oxford’s irrepressible flow
Unmilan Kalita
Not all is beautiful in the death of the ‘golden ticket’
Unmilan Kalita argues that the instability of a university degree should be cause for concern