Fatima's Fieldnotes
Fatima Zahra Yusuf responds to the deep insecurity felt by the elite in a society trying to remove barriers to higher education
Opinion
The state school target failed to achieve what it set out to do, argues Ayushman Mukherjee
Elsie McDowell
Hugh Jones
Matthew Taylor
Ruby Cline
Sam Hudson
Joe Cowan
Joe Cowan, the current President of Darwin’s May Ball, argues the college’s plant-based ball is here to stay
Omar Burhanuddin
Our cash-strapped higher education sector is growing troublingly dependent on the affluent overseas market, argues Omar Burhanuddin
Emily Kelly
Chris Patel
Ellie Robinson
Patrick Dolan
Maddy Browne
Sam Nicholson
Alice Mainwood
Katie Heggs
Cambridge Union elections largely uncontested this term, what are the ‘hacks’ up to?
Calum Murray
The affair reveals the partisan, theatrical mess parliament has become
Jack Deasley
Alex Parton-Turner
The rhetoric of Labour’s plan for tackling knife crime does not match reality, argues Alex Parton-Turner.
Don’t let Cambridge infiltrate the relationships you really care about, argues Ruby Cline.
Lauren Bird
Faye Harrison
Hannah Mawardi
Will McLaughlin
Free pizza doesn’t make up for hours of unnecessary bureaucracy
If Starmer addresses the concerns of an oft-maligned, ignored voting bloc, he’s got the election in the bag, argues Lauren Bird
Miranda Evans
Why take yourself so seriously on Twitter (X)? Miranda Evans argues that we stop trying to make our Twitter profiles into the new Linkedin, and just let loose.
Cambridge’s spaces may be grand, but we can make them our own, argues Maddy Browne
Emily Lawson-Todd
Martha Dacombe
Esther Arthurson
Maddy Browne.
Aenghus Hughes
Caitlin Rajan
The trap of ‘ethical’ consumption and resistance through reimagining the role of the individual in creating social change
Hannah Gillott
Give us a break, in such an intense atmosphere, students across the city have a right to get drunk
Olive Watt
Ezra Izer
Head to Head
As admittance to the Lolacoaster opens once again, the equally wild ride of drinking in Cambridge must be addressed, says Ezra Izer
Isabel Dempsey
In her final year at a university full of grown adults, Isabel Dempsey questions why it still feels like she’s trapped in Year 9
Heidi Atkins
Izzy Benardout Ezra Izer
Tom Moran
Lauren Cotter
Micheal Allan
Returning to Cambridge after intermission can be hard, but your approach to it can make all the difference.
The party conferences held this month have cemented the positioning of the British political parties in the build up to the election
Daniel Hilton
Lucia Quadrini
Izzy Benardout
Ziyana Kotadia
The O’Reilly Plagarism scandal is a disgraceful example of academics demanding respect whilst showing students none
Izzy Benardout contemplates her relationship with her faith and finding a space for it away from home.
Head-to-Head
Suchir Salhan
Liza Voloboeva
Jude Crawley
Anna Metzger
Pride means more than music and rainbows – and it is up to us to embrace and protect its multiplicities
Naima Clarvis
As colleges continue to profit from the flourishing ‘Oxbridge Summer School’ industry, they could do with improving conditions for current students
Sophie Denny
With Westminster as an example, it’s no surprise that the Union plays a similarly dirty game, argues Daniel Hilton
Would Barbie be proud of the progress shown in womanhood at Cambridge?
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore
James Lewis
Ria Patel
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COMMENT
Fatima's Fieldnotes
Accepting black people into Cambridge is not an act of discrimination
Fatima Zahra Yusuf responds to the deep insecurity felt by the elite in a society trying to remove barriers to higher education
Opinion
Cambridge is right to scrap its state school target
The state school target failed to achieve what it set out to do, argues Ayushman Mukherjee
Opinion
I shouldn’t have to own a car
Opinion
Why we should all work a part-time job
Opinion
Local investment plans must remember Cambridge is not just a uni
Elsie McDowell
Does Lucy Cav need a billionaire bailout?
Hugh Jones
Greenwashing isn’t a problem
Matthew Taylor
Scrapping state school targets is playing a dangerous game
Ruby Cline
Remote learning is here to stay, whether we like it or not
Sam Hudson
The University is right to cut funding for private ADHD diagnoses
Joe Cowan
Darwin without a chance of Meat Balls
Joe Cowan, the current President of Darwin’s May Ball, argues the college’s plant-based ball is here to stay
Omar Burhanuddin
UK universities are sacrificing widening access for foreign fees
Our cash-strapped higher education sector is growing troublingly dependent on the affluent overseas market, argues Omar Burhanuddin
Emily Kelly
Scrapping St John’s Voices is a step back for choral music
Chris Patel
(Don’t) stick to the status quo
Omar Burhanuddin
I don’t have a degree to do next term!
Ellie Robinson
What have we learned from Covid?
Patrick Dolan
Denying the existence of ADHD is deeply problematic
Maddy Browne
Prosecco socialism?
Sam Nicholson
When did a trip to the shop become so dystopian?
Alice Mainwood
Can Cambridge get International Women’s Day right?
Katie Heggs
Is this the end of (Union) democracy?
Cambridge Union elections largely uncontested this term, what are the ‘hacks’ up to?
Calum Murray
The Gaza vote crisis reveals parliament’s deep dysfunction
The affair reveals the partisan, theatrical mess parliament has become
Emily Kelly
How to solve Cambridge’s postgraduate housing crisis
Elsie McDowell
One u turn too far?
Matthew Taylor
A sick perspective on the workload problem
Ruby Cline
May Ball Committees, you’re not the new James Joyce
Maddy Browne
The power of words in queer relationships
Jack Deasley
The education system is broken – doing 28 A-levels won’t fix it
Maddy Browne
The trap of apathy and creating our own politics
Omar Burhanuddin
Cambridge has a racism problem, and we should be angry about it
Alex Parton-Turner
I do not consider myself a victim. The boy who stabbed me does
The rhetoric of Labour’s plan for tackling knife crime does not match reality, argues Alex Parton-Turner.
Ruby Cline
Cambridge has ruined our love languages
Don’t let Cambridge infiltrate the relationships you really care about, argues Ruby Cline.
Katie Heggs
What an awful time to study politics!
Omar Burhanuddin
Do you listen to your college choir?
Patrick Dolan
First-degree murder: how Cambridge killed my perfectionism
Hugh Jones
In defence of selling out
Ruby Cline
Full-time work after university isn’t a gap year
Lauren Bird
Public elf Crisis?
Faye Harrison
Male students ‘can’t’ cook or clean, and I fear for the future
Hannah Mawardi
Pembroke gave me sesame three times. It’s time we start taking allergies seriously.
Will McLaughlin
SU meetings are just too boring
Free pizza doesn’t make up for hours of unnecessary bureaucracy
Lauren Bird
How Labour can mobilise the student vote
If Starmer addresses the concerns of an oft-maligned, ignored voting bloc, he’s got the election in the bag, argues Lauren Bird
Matthew Taylor
Cambridge access schemes have become box-ticking exercises
Emily Kelly
Turing and the Typewriter
Maddy Browne
Graveyard Offices and Haunted Students
Matthew Taylor
The importance of making Cambridge home
Ruby Cline
Lent term isn’t so bad after all
Faye Harrison
Social smoking isn’t about image, it’s about community
Hugh Jones
Cambridge students don’t realise how lucky they are
Will McLaughlin
Cambridge student welfare has a bureaucracy problem
Miranda Evans
You’re a pseudo-intellectual, let Twitter be your soundboard
Why take yourself so seriously on Twitter (X)? Miranda Evans argues that we stop trying to make our Twitter profiles into the new Linkedin, and just let loose.
Maddy Browne
Student spaces are what we make of them
Cambridge’s spaces may be grand, but we can make them our own, argues Maddy Browne
Omar Burhanuddin
The unspoken problems of small, central colleges
Emily Lawson-Todd
Fear and loathing in South Yorkshire
Katie Heggs
Oxbridge is what you make of it
Patrick Dolan
In defence of our free will
Martha Dacombe
Progressives need something to say about the digital revolution
Esther Arthurson
Bring back that silent night
Maddy Browne.
How to queer your life when the government won’t
Aenghus Hughes
Abolish at-interview admissions assessments
Caitlin Rajan
The Myth of Perfect Consumption
The trap of ‘ethical’ consumption and resistance through reimagining the role of the individual in creating social change
Hannah Gillott
Let Cambridge drinking culture off the hook
Give us a break, in such an intense atmosphere, students across the city have a right to get drunk
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head-to-head: in person interviews
Hugh Jones
If Peterhouse is a charity, then so are private schools
Hannah Gillott
What on earth is a ‘girl desk’?
Olive Watt
Section 28: 20 years since repeal, how much has really changed?
Aenghus Hughes
Is the return of David Cameron really what the nation needs?
Ezra Izer
When money talks too loudly…the case of ego-billionaires
Head to Head
Head to head: tripos rankings
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge puts the ‘late’ into ‘fashionably late’
Ezra Izer
The Cambridge cocktail: ethanol and elitism
As admittance to the Lolacoaster opens once again, the equally wild ride of drinking in Cambridge must be addressed, says Ezra Izer
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge colleges have a clique problem
In her final year at a university full of grown adults, Isabel Dempsey questions why it still feels like she’s trapped in Year 9
Heidi Atkins
SSRIs and I
Patrick Dolan
It’s not just week five when we’re feeling blue
Matthew Taylor
Does Lucy Cavendish’s egalitarian intake conceal an uglier truth?
Izzy Benardout Ezra Izer
Head to head: how to spend first year
Tom Moran
JCRs can be a force for good
Alice Mainwood
It’s ok not to know it all
Maddy Browne
It’s time for universities to shift money from the top
Lauren Cotter
The rise of the far right in British politics
Micheal Allan
Returning from intermission can be joyful
Returning to Cambridge after intermission can be hard, but your approach to it can make all the difference.
Aenghus Hughes
A Tale of two conferences
The party conferences held this month have cemented the positioning of the British political parties in the build up to the election
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head to head: Are Potter shops magic or tragic?
Daniel Hilton
You’re not an intellectual powerhouse, you’re a student with a Twitter account
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge is just London 2.0
Lucia Quadrini
The myth of university rankings
Hugh Jones
How to fix the SU? Build a bar
Izzy Benardout
Prep weeks: what are they good for?
Martha Dacombe
Please can we all stop going on Hinge
Ziyana Kotadia
The living legacy of misogyny at Cambridge
Emily Lawson-Todd
Respect must go both ways
The O’Reilly Plagarism scandal is a disgraceful example of academics demanding respect whilst showing students none
Izzy Benardout
Celebrating faith away from home
Izzy Benardout contemplates her relationship with her faith and finding a space for it away from home.
Head-to-Head
Freshers’ week: best week ever or severely overrated?
Hugh Jones
Open days must be less opaque
Suchir Salhan
Prentice must address Cambridge’s geopolitical crisis, rather than free speech
Lauren Cotter
The public sector’s misogyny crisis
Liza Voloboeva
Is Cambridge really Cambridge?
Jude Crawley
Oops! They did it again
Anna Metzger
Climate criminals have no place in higher education
Hannah Gillott
The problem with the Great British scandal
Maddy Browne
What a return to Pride has reminded me about queer liberation
Pride means more than music and rainbows – and it is up to us to embrace and protect its multiplicities
Naima Clarvis
The ironies of the Oxbridge summer school
As colleges continue to profit from the flourishing ‘Oxbridge Summer School’ industry, they could do with improving conditions for current students
Jude Crawley
Students should have the right to move away from home
Sophie Denny
Lucy Letby, an unlikely murderer?
Aenghus Hughes
Meteoric rises of the Metro Mayors
Izzy Benardout
Maybe the MAB hasn’t been all that bad
Emily Lawson-Todd
Don’t diss the dissertation
Hugh Jones
Down with dissertations
Katie Heggs
A working girl’s guide to Cambridge summer
Isabel Dempsey
‘Keep off the grass’ is not really a sexist remark
Daniel Hilton
Don’t blame Ghose for ballot stuffing, blame Tory Britain
With Westminster as an example, it’s no surprise that the Union plays a similarly dirty game, argues Daniel Hilton
Katie Heggs
Barbieland or Kendom? Girlhood in Cambridge
Would Barbie be proud of the progress shown in womanhood at Cambridge?
Suchir Salhan
Sham graduations and the farce of provisional results
Emily Lawson-Todd
Student spaces are more important than colleges’ profits
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore
The strikes make it harder to defend the humanities
Aenghus Hughes
Glad to be History’s ‘guinea pig’
James Lewis
How to learn a language nobody wants to hear
Heidi Atkins
Breaking the spiking taboo
Ria Patel
Ignored and let down: being Deaf at Cambridge
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge is a bubble-wrapped play set
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