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Student group condemns Biomedical Campus for ‘endorsing pseudoscience’
Tompkins Table 2025: Trinity widens gap on Christ’s
The MP, in a video posted by Cambridge University Left Society featuring its co-chairs alongside the politician, wished the society ‘all the very very best’
Students Against Psuedoscience claim Cambridge Biomedical Campus endorses pseudoscience through its association with the annual Cambridge Wellness Festival
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Councillors urge the City Council to contribute to repairs, as a “full structural rebuild” needed in long-term
Individuals supporting for the Global Strike for Gaza also released paper boats along the Cam
A light-hearted round-up of this week’s stories including a sacking for Cambridge’s MP, brain cancer breakthroughs, and a special swan sighting.
40 students holding full scholarships to study in the UK will take up their places with government support
Blues Football
Ben Lubitsh reports on the light blues’ success in China
Guide
Flossie Bullion offers you a guide to styling one of the most recently notorious jean styles, the skinny jean
What's On
Ten events happening in Cambridge, compiled by Sophie Smout
New research suggests that we can accurately judge a person’s past infidelity from the sound of their voice
The Downton Abbey star discusses the importance of the arts with Seyan Dattani
The newly-established UCLS called out the Labour Club for ‘ideological vacuity’ – claims described as ‘inaccurate and dishonest’ by CULC
Meet the Cambridge students whose names live up to their degree
Does studying STEM still guarantee success after graduation?
Incoming freshers and their hopes, fears and expectations for Cambridge 
Thea Grant explores nominative determinism by talking to students about how their names might subtly shape their choices, identities, and even career paths
Sasha-Djuric Fraser speaks to students about the practicalities of planning their year abroad
Alisha Mafaas speaks to students about the ways in which they balance faith with university obligations during Ramadan
Francesca Evans
Francesca Evans investigates student-led initiatives pushing for change in Cambridge’s consent culture
Beth Lee examines the cost of a career in the STEM industry, and whether these paths deliver on their promises.
Irish students at Cambridge must navigate a country and a university that haven’t fully reckoned with their violently interconnected past
Emma Tenzler speaks to Ahmed, a Cambridge offer-holder in Gaza, about the obstacles to his studies and his hopes for the future
Chirathi Perera speaks to incoming Cambridge freshers about their fears, hopes, and expectations as they anxiously await the start of term
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How Sam Elbahja graduated and published a book in the same year
Desafio do gringo: Andrew Collet on being a recovering perfectionist
GK Barry’s journey from Revs to Reality TV
Lindsay Beckett: co-owner of the new Harvey Court café
Ludovica De Lorenzo sits down with poet Sam Elbahja to discuss Cambridge’s buzzing literary scene
Quickfire
Indya Mason speaks to undergraduate polyglot Andrew Collet of YouTube channel ‘Andrew o Gringo’ about how to beat perfectionism in language learning
The Downton Abbey star discusses the importance of the arts with Seyan Dattani
Sophie Ennis sits down with the TikTok phenomenon to discuss the realities of stardom and her acting aspirations
Vienna Kwan sits down with Graham Stuart to hear his unconventional path from Selwyn College to Parliament without a degree
Quickfire
Olivia Goodman sits down with the gardeners at Murray Edwards College to discuss care, community, and cultivation
Who gets to stay cool in Cambridge?
How to spot a cheater (without Coldplay’s kiss cam)
Smiley Chan’s picks from a summer spent reading popular science
Why extreme heat is not felt equally across Cambridge
New research suggests that we can accurately judge a person’s past infidelity from the sound of their voice
The Earth Sciences team transforming disaster response
Flora Allen discusses a new ‘three-parent’ technique in IVF and the possible ethical repurcussions it faces
Kalina Poydovska explores how perceptual illusions manipulate your movie experience
The summer I tried learning Hindi
Falling head-over-heels for autumn 
Take a punt, go on a Blind Date 
The internship he told you not to worry about
Guide
(and why, Jess Gotterson suggests, you should too)
Salvador Widdicombe reveals his drug of choice and encourages us to sample the language high for ourselves
Blind Date
Holly Hardman shares the takeaways from her Varsity blind date
Guide
Board? Never. Ruby Randall offers an expert guide to the ultimate games night in with friends
Confession
Jan Maciejewski navigates the difficulties of dating someone racing up the career ladder while you’re on the first rung
With the long break drawing to a close, Alice Frecheville probes the burning question of exactly where you should have spent it
Rediscovering home through a new lens
The September art scene
With his new camera Fabian Chan returns to Singapore after a year away
Opinion
Sydney Heintz explores Mervyn Peake’s methodical madness
What's On
Ten events happening in Cambridge, compiled by Sophie Smout
Feature
Johana Trejtnar meets some of the artists at Rowan
As Bruegel reframed the hubristic myth, Mia Apfel seeks to reframe term
Review
Aaron Tan recalls his visit to a Kettle’s Yard exhibition
The Lover’s Eye and the intimacy of jewellery
Feature
Ava Connors considers how jewellery reflects the tensions of love and loss
Guide
Flossie Bullion offers you a guide to styling one of the most recently notorious jean styles, the skinny jean
Feature
Mary Anna Im reflects on how Joan Didion’s understated wardrobe turned her into an unlikely fashion icon
Opinion
Tia Ribbo unpacks the unexpected revival of 2010s style and the nostalgia driving it
Opinion
Niamh Walters examines why style is becoming a smart financial asset, not just a splurge
Opinion
Molly Weston posits that reviving New Romantic style is the key against conservatism in fashion
Everything starts with stand-up
Finding home in When Life Gives You Tangerines
The bond between Paddington and the Postcolonial
Marvel’s first shaky steps back to relevancy?
Opinion
Freya Compton returns from the Edinburgh Fringe to discuss the past, present, and future of TV comedy
Interview
Jacob Smith interviews British director David Campion on the process and inspiration behind his latest film, Straight Through Crew
Review
Ollie Godkin examines how Fantastic Four: First Steps deviates from its predecessors
Commentary
Sadia Batool discusses how the beloved British emblem explores themes of displacement, immigration, and imperialism
Review
Julia Ongking unpacks ambition and sacrifice in When Life Gives You Tangerines
Watchlist
Joann Pereira shows us how we can go on our own journeys without leaving home
Far out, up in the mountains: Green Man 2025
Spotify substitutes: can ethical streaming sound just as good?
Festival Review
Once upon an (abnormally) sunny weekend, Daisy Cooper works at Green Man
Opinion
Harmony Mitchell assesses the danger of listening to music in snippets
Opinion
Francis McCabe attacks the question of music genre with AI, apathy, and literary criticism
Opinion
George Nicholson argues that the humble voice of the radio sings the tune of modern life
Review
Caitlin Newman encourages us to foster conscious listening habits
Feature
Isabel Lee seperates fact from fiction in the link between music and the mind
Why the message belongs to the audience
Opinion
The meaning of a play, Eleanor Baldwin argues, lives in the dialogue of its audience
Fringe Diaries
Alex Brian sits down with Ella Thornburn & Maya Calcraft to discuss the development of this exceptional Fringe show
Fringe Diaries
Lorna Beal sits down with the creators of the critically acclaimed Cambridge fringe show
Feature
Shan Tan-Ya sits down with three MPhil students to discuss their experiences in Cambridge theatre
Millie Wooler meditates on Bradford’s contributions to theatre
Leon Rake questions whether reviews are an unnecessary strain on peer relationships
CUAFC conquer China 
US Open
Ben Lubitsh reflects on what we can learn from this year’s US Open finalist
Blues Football
Ben Lubitsh reports on the light blues’ success in China
College sport
Oscar O’Neill explores the often overlooked benefits of college sport
Comment
Ellie Buckley argues that old sporting commitments should be pursued at Cambridge
Imani Schawsmidth discusses New Zealand’s unique bombing culture, and the community significance of ’popping a manu’
Football
Holly-Marie Greening places the Lionesses’ grassroots glory under the microscope
COMMENT
Emy Bengtsson
Cambridge’s culture of anonymous complaint
Emy Bengtsson argues that we should reevaluate our relationship with gossip and anonymous confessions
Comment
A fleshy realisation
Jasper Finlay Burnside places communities at the heart of his argument for cycling infrastructure
Gabrielle Saraway
I think I…like myself?
Gabrielle Saraway argues something very radical: that we should like ourselves
Katie Nicholson
The reality of the Tompkins Table rankings
Katie Nicholson rebuts claims that the Tompkins Table is obsolete, instead arguing that the problem lies in its reception
Jamilla Wichmann
Why do we need to glow up?
Jamilla Wichmann argues that the social media trend of the ‘glow up’ has a particularly harmful effect on Cambridge students
Comment
My problem with the year abroad
Abril Duarte González argues the year abroad exposes Cambridge’s double standards – caught between cultural capital and consequence