DJ and Vet Med Anish Kumar’s double life

Georgie Atkinson meets the finalist to find out how he balances it all

A year of ‘Reach Out’ amidst Cambridge’s mental health crisis

Natalie Acton speaks about new mental health services, diversity and student engagement

‘How to Fail’ at Cambridge

Long Read

‘I still have faith in our crazy country’: American feminist Brenda Feigen

Donating not dancing: May Week Alternative

Zena Kazeme: ‘When your existence is inherently political, you spend it pursuing justice’

Former Green party leader Baroness Natalie Bennett pronounces centrist politics ‘dead’

Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence and the ‘Plan to Fix a Fractured World’

‘It’s not just talking about the menopause, but doing something about it’: Dr Louise Newson

Dr Newson speaks about hormones, treatment, the power of women and the work done by Murray Edwards college

Q&A

STEM, social media and salty liquorice: Eleonora Svanberg

3 months in, what has Fergus Kirman done for the SU?

‘The Guy Who Walked the Amazon’: explorer Ed Stafford

Quickfire

Alison Wright: Cambridge through the window of Fitzbillies

‘The line between masculinity and the apocalypse’: Reuben Kaye comes to Cambridge

‘I try to speak for those who don’t have a voice’: Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton

‘Fesshole’ creator Rob Manuel confesses to Varsity

‘Merdeka!’ 66 years of Malaysian independence

Miraya McCoy Palmer talks to her grandparents about their lived experiences of British colonial rule and the aftermath of independence

Interview

‘Finding strength in vulnerability’: Mae Muller on her new album and lessons in love

Abby Reyes talks to Eurovision contestant Mae Muller about being a young woman in the music industry and healing from ‘delulu girly’ ways

‘Free speech absolutist’ Charlie Palmer on his ‘unsexy’ plans for the Union

Interview

‘When in doubt, go to the library’: Cambridge University Librarian, Dr Jessica Gardner

Meet the award-winning editor behind Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible

Interview

BBC3 Controller Fiona Campbell’s nationwide search for the next smash hit

Quickfire

‘I’m too bloody minded to be affiliated to any political party’: President of Queens’ Politics

Interview

Homeless and a care leaver: how Kerrie Portman sought refuge in Cambridge’s Foundation Year

Interview

Cask ale and chickens in the bar: managing Cambridge’s oldest pub

The manager of The Pickerel Inn talks to Varsity about life behind the bar, and how quickly you’d have to down a pint to beat him

Interview

‘We go so against the status quo’: Hip-Hop Soc President

Abby Reyes speaks to Reece D’Souza about bringing rap to Cambridge and his love of Frank Ocean

‘Here’s my trauma, have it all’: The songwriting superpowers of Grace Carter

‘Cambridge needs to lead a conversation’: the world’s first fellow in Indentureship Studies

Quickfire

‘I began seeing fan videos on Instagram and TikTok!’: Armand de Lambilly

Peace and Love? 2024 U.S. Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson’s antidote to a poisoned politics

In conversation with Jimmy’s homeless charity

The Good Robot? A conversation with research analysts at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence

‘Someone needs to take responsibility’: the journalist tackling the sexual health crisis

The Lies Behind Cambridge Minds

John Simpson: “I don’t want these things to be ignored”

Sophie Denny speaks with John Simpson, about the ‘sense of duty’ compelling him to report on the world’s most momentous events

Master of Trinity Hall: ‘It was incredible. I was a witness to history.’

Mary Hockaday talks all things from fleeing Oxford, how you get through the tough days, and being a woman in journalism

Quickfire

Behind the scenes at Trockel, Ulmann & Freunde

President of Hughes Hall: ‘You often get a bit of a ringside seat at the making of history’

Quickfire

Scudamore’s Punter: ‘Always let go of the pole!’

Warden of Robinson: ‘The independent bar just wasn’t for me’

‘I just wanted to be strong’: Ekin-Su on Love Island, confidence, and finding love at uni

Victoria Bateman: ‘When I was a teenage girl, you were basically written off as a little hole’

Master of Christ’s: ‘I had a one-to-one meeting inside a tent with Colonel Gaddafi’

Simon McDonald discusses his career from the importance of his History degree, to visiting 144 countries, and how to stand out amid 22,999 other applicants.

Master of Emmanuel: ‘I was very worried. Perceptions, and what people think of you, matter’

Joseph Duffy sits down with Doug Chalmers to talk tarmac, geopolitics, and how his military career helps him lead Emmanuel.

Priya Gopal on industrial action, decolonisation, and free speech within the University

Leroy Logan: Taking an ‘Axe’ to racism in the Met

Laurence Rickard: ‘If we made Horrible Histories now, we wouldn’t be playing Egyptians’

‘We should continue to learn at all times’: in conversation with Baroness Dambisa Moyo

Meet ‘Birdgirl’: The second-year undergrad with an honorary doctorate

Omnihack! A day in the life of Cambridge’s ‘busiest’ student

President of Armenia: ‘You need to live in peace with your neighbours’

Founding a new society and pursuing peace: an interview with CURAP

WATCH: The students standing for election to Cambridge city council

Jude Crawley interviews six of the seven candidates hoping to gain a seat on the council in the elections on Thursday 4th May

Interview

The extraordinary life of Farrukh Dhondy

YouTuber Memeulous: ‘I’m better off not showing my face’

Interview

The Cambridge engineer keeping Ukraine warm, one window at a time

Caspar Lee on Cambridge May Balls, social media struggles and how student housing can be done differently

‘The government does not take prevention seriously’: the student campaigning for greater education on domestic abuse

Interview

‘A crisis of democracy’: MEP Manon Aubry on police violence in France

Interview

“Extreme sex positivity can make people feel shame”: sex educator and Youtube star Hannah Witton

Sir Oliver Heald: ‘Margaret Thatcher was somebody who gave you her full attention’

Interview

‘The most important issue of our time’: an interview with Cambridge’s Climate Society

The Cambridge Climate Society talk activism, inequality and their new open letter

Interview

Ending mass shootings and legalising heroin: Beto O’Rourke’s plan for a better America

The Texan Democrat on how systemic barriers prevent his country from solving its biggest issues

Interview

Forget the Old Boys’ Club, meet the ‘New Girls’ Network’

Political broadcaster Iain Dale: ‘political parties don’t play ball’

Interview

The Art of Being a Student Vlogger

Interview

An interview with Cambridge’s LGBT+ friendly church

Interview

Jeremy Vine talks student journalism, privacy, and starting “the most unfashionable punk band in the country”

Interview

Why the SU’s decision is on the right side of history, according to Cambridge’s Vegan Soc President

Bella Shorrock speaks to Chris Patel about how easy it is to eat vegan in Cambridge, and how we will be living in a vegan world very soon

Interview

‘My heart is still with my daughters in Afghanistan’: Fawzia Koofi’s fight for women’s rights and democratic freedoms

Lois Kildea speaks to the Afghan MP about her journey into politics and the future of Afghanistan

Afghan Student Fundraisers: ‘I feel a need, an obligation, to try to raise awareness of what’s happening in Afghanistan’

Interview

Cambridge’s final-year medics on the junior doctors’ strikes

World-renowned politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis on the state of the UK economy

Interview

Sports journalist Adam Crafton on football’s homophobia problem

Pro-VC: Climate anxiety behind campus mental health crisis

In conversation with the Pink Week President

Interview

“Woman, Life, Freedom”: Cambridge’s Iranian students speak out

Cambridge’s Iranian students tell Varsity what they are fighting for

Interview

Getting things in order with John Bercow

Interview

John from Cambridge Crêpes on celebrity customers, local fame, and why he’s always cheerful

Interview

Model and ex-Editor-In-Chief of Varsity: ‘I feared being adequate at everything but not good at anything’

‘The Tudors were the first to champion the idea of Empire’: Suzannah Lipscomb on why the Tudors matter

‘From the world outside, Cambridge looks like a very small fishbowl’: Orlando Figes on life after academia

‘There’s just so much you’re not taught in school’ – Author and teacher Jeffrey Boakye on the British education system

‘We might be the only civilisation in this galaxy’: Brian Cox on why we should take more care of the Earth we’ve got

Quickfire

‘How much can I say without getting blacklisted?’: club icon Jamali Blair

The revs regular discusses dating in Cambridge, his idols and being an introvert

Top civil servant who spoke out against the prime minister: ‘Boris Johnson was the author of his own demise’

Christ’s new master on why Russia shouldn’t pay reparations for Ukraine and working with Rishi Sunak

Meet the youth advocates backing reparations

Quickfire

Gardies’ Greta: ‘Students are not drunk- they are young!’

Quickfire

Cambridge Dragtime star: ‘I quickly realised that I can’t actually sing’

‘Lula would bring a brighter future’: Cambridge economists on the upcoming Brazilian elections

‘We need free speech’: ex-Union president and historian on Prince Andrew, CUCA, and historical censorship

Ex-Varsity editor would tell student self to “chill out”: Oliver Burkeman on journalism, fatherhood and Cambridge anxiety

Quickfire

‘Always Listen To Mama Dee!’ Inside the life of an icon of the Cambridge club scene

I don’t know what decolonisation is, says new acting vice-chancellor

The Vamps on a decade of fame

The Vamps are back, and more mature, after a two year hiatus

‘The most life-affirming job in the world’: Talking curation with the Women’s Art Collection

Why does female art remain marginalised? Curators Naomi Polonsky and Harriet Loffler believe there are still glass ceilings to be smashed

Quickfire

The Union’s Michaelmas president: ‘Some are born megalomaniacs’

Meet the student mum breaking Cambridge stereotypes

‘The most extreme government in a lifetime’: Cambridge MP on Liz Truss’ early premiership

‘I would have done everything faster’. Neil Kinnock on his tenure as Labour leader, Keir Starmer, and the cost of living crisis

‘It’s innately anti-authoritarian’: the Horrible Histories’ producer on the show being called anti-British

Quickfire

Ruby Cline: ‘I got recognised for my personal statement advice in clubs’

‘Very little intimidates me’: Dame Sally Davies on COVID’s future, Prime Ministers, and imposter syndrome