Amelie Rothwell
Amelie Rothwell explores the reasons behind the confidence gap between private and state school students
Nessa Yip
Nessa Yip argues that AI’s harm to the climate outstrips its potential benefits
Olive Watt
Wilf Vall
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Duncan Paterson
Alex Rutter
April O'Neill
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Duncan Paterson
Abril Duarte González
Abril Duarte González tells freshers to remember that Cambridge is the least interesting thing about them
Remy Rushbrooke
Remy Rushbrooke argues that we should defeat Cofnas’ ideology on our own terms rather than censoring them
Joshua Prince
Head to Head
Talia Jacobs
Bibi Boyce
Jamilla Wichmann
Elena Buermann
April O’Neill argues that the clash of Freshers’ Week and week one robs students of the chance to adjust to the weird and wonderful ways of Cambridge
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Josh Prince debate whether Cambridge should follow Oxford by integrating AI into its education system
Ellana Cowan
Jasper Finlay Burnside
Kit Roberts
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Emy Bengtsson
Emy Bengtsson argues that we should reevaluate our relationship with gossip and anonymous confessions
Comment
Jasper Finlay Burnside places communities at the heart of his argument for cycling infrastructure
Gabrielle Saraway
Katie Nicholson
Ben Curtis
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that new-builds are not the answer to the UK’s housing crisis
April O’Neill argues that unpaid internships are a barrier to social mobility that we need to knock down
Charlie Rowan
Elsie McDowell
Ben Lubitsh
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that the response to Rachel Reeves’s tears in the House of Commons highlights disconcerting characteristics of modern-day politics
Bernard Shiu
Bernard Shiu argues that the rise of populism poses a threat to international students’ access to education across the world
Tia Ribbo
Jack Deasley
Greg Quinn
Maddy Browne
head to head
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that college chapels have a great deal more to offer us than we may realise
Katie Nicholson argues that the right of students to protest is an essential facilitator of political expression
Calum Murray
Anonymous student
Maddie Harding
Ffion Edwards
Martha Rayner
Katie Nicholson argues that faculties must make some changes if they expect students to attend lectures regularly
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that as Reform’s popularity grows, we ignore the politics of the devolved nations at our own peril
Chiraag Shah
Johana Trejtnar
Luca Chandler
Dylan Stewart
Evie McMahon
Maddy Browne argues that Cambridge’s housing issues are reflective of the national crisis
Jake Altmann
Jake Altmann argues that AI can compliment coursework as a mode of assessment
Gabrielle Lee
Patrick Dolan
Ellie Buckley
Madeleine Wood
Yashraj Garg
Cambridge’s sexism can’t be resigned to the past, argues Johana Trejtnar
Varsity Comment
Queer communities have been present at Cambridge for much of its history
Jess Standring
Nick Davis
Letters
Rosie Roberts
Cambridge’s constant deadlines risk undermining the significance of the topics we study
A culture of corporate feminism risks alienating women who do not fit the girlboss image
Hattie Holford-Smith
Daisy Hewitt
Nicole Banas
College chapels can serve the entire community, argues Johana Trejtnar
Erin McGurk
Erin McGurk argues that the tolerance advocated by left-leaning Cambridge students is often not put into practice
Benjamin Barrett-Miles
Max La Bouchardiere
Martha Lucas
Varsity Letters
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COMMENT
Amelie Rothwell
Confidence isn’t earned, it’s bought
Amelie Rothwell explores the reasons behind the confidence gap between private and state school students
Nessa Yip
AI isn’t worth the environmental costs
Nessa Yip argues that AI’s harm to the climate outstrips its potential benefits
Olive Watt
Anti-trans societies won’t make women safer
Wilf Vall
Time to slow down the rat race
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Duncan Paterson
Reformed ideas: should we encourage a Reform UK society?
Alex Rutter
Be mindful of non-students in your societies
April O'Neill
Stop relying on your bedder
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Have we forgotten how to empathise?
Duncan Paterson
The conflict of interest at the heart of Cambridge academia
Nessa Yip
Young people don’t like your online political campaigns
Abril Duarte González
On overcoming the freshers’ curse
Abril Duarte González tells freshers to remember that Cambridge is the least interesting thing about them
Remy Rushbrooke
Nathan Cofnas shouldn’t be silenced
Remy Rushbrooke argues that we should defeat Cofnas’ ideology on our own terms rather than censoring them
Joshua Prince
Cambridge should lose the Boat Race
Head to Head
Welfare workshops are broken
April O'Neill
Where’s the money for ‘Mickey Mouse’?
Talia Jacobs
It’s not my fault I was followed home
Bibi Boyce
Bonnie Blue is the enemy, not the face, of female liberation
Jamilla Wichmann
Open-mindedness is a British value
Elena Buermann
Flying the flag, properly
Duncan Paterson
When colleges raise rents, everybody loses
April O'Neill
Cambridge needs a proper Freshers’ Week
April O’Neill argues that the clash of Freshers’ Week and week one robs students of the chance to adjust to the weird and wonderful ways of Cambridge
Head to Head
Should Cambridge be investing in programmes over people?
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Josh Prince debate whether Cambridge should follow Oxford by integrating AI into its education system
Ellana Cowan
Let’s bring back masks
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Find people in Cambridge you disagree with
Jasper Finlay Burnside
The protestable state of protest
Remy Rushbrooke
Leave no stone unturned
Kit Roberts
Dear finalists, please have fun
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Travelling to Trump’s America
Alex Rutter
Why UCLS are not just another protest group
Joshua Prince
Cambridge South is right to be ambitious
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?
Katie Nicholson
The reality of the Tompkins Table rankings
Jamilla Wichmann
Why do we need to glow up?
Comment
My problem with the year abroad
Ellana Cowan
Cambridge needs to reach out to disabled students
Comment
Who could possibly want more exams?
Ben Curtis
Time’s up for the Tompkins Table
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Yes, I love Britain
Jasper Finlay Burnside
A plague on your new-build houses
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that new-builds are not the answer to the UK’s housing crisis
April O'Neill
Put an end to the unpaid internship
April O’Neill argues that unpaid internships are a barrier to social mobility that we need to knock down
Charlie Rowan
Oxford wins the ceremonial Varsity
Katie Nicholson
Supervisions are about more than teaching
Elsie McDowell
What the civil service has got wrong about class
Katie Nicholson
Are degrees still worth it?
Daisy Stewart Henderson
I stand by my sixteen-year-old self’s vote
Ben Lubitsh
Stop disarming people of their nuance
Ben Curtis
The next Chancellor has their work cut out for them
Jamilla Wichmann
What is originality, anyway?
Jasper Finlay Burnside
Where is the humanity in our politics?
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that the response to Rachel Reeves’s tears in the House of Commons highlights disconcerting characteristics of modern-day politics
Bernard Shiu
It’s not just Trump who’s after international students
Bernard Shiu argues that the rise of populism poses a threat to international students’ access to education across the world
Tia Ribbo
So, what are you up to this summer?
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Why shouldn’t we share our libraries with A-level students?
Ben Lubitsh
No platform, no progress
Jack Deasley
Good riddance to exam rankings
Greg Quinn
May Week isn’t going anywhere
Maddy Browne
Open(ing up about) AI
head to head
All aboard the Varsity line?
April O'Neill
Cambridge students need to resurrect the rave
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why Cambridge needs college chapels
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that college chapels have a great deal more to offer us than we may realise
Katie Nicholson
The importance of student protests isn’t up for debate
Katie Nicholson argues that the right of students to protest is an essential facilitator of political expression
Olive Watt
Labour is betraying disabled people
Calum Murray
Is Cambridge really accessible?
Anonymous student
There must be more to the sciences than exams
Maddie Harding
Keir Starmer’s ‘New Deal’ era?
Ffion Edwards
Not all state schools are made equal
Katie Nicholson
Impostor syndrome isn’t a rite of passage
April O'Neill
Are college-mandated quiet periods more harm than good?
Martha Rayner
The lies we tell prospective students
Katie Nicholson
Lectures are optional so give us the recordings
Katie Nicholson argues that faculties must make some changes if they expect students to attend lectures regularly
Jasper Finlay Burnside
What Scotland can teach us about Reform’s coming wave
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that as Reform’s popularity grows, we ignore the politics of the devolved nations at our own peril
Katie Nicholson
The case for reading weeks
Chiraag Shah
Is networking dead?
Johana Trejtnar
Why Cambridge debates matter
Luca Chandler
How colleges shape the way we see the world
Dylan Stewart
Pope Francis helped young people reconnect with the Church
Evie McMahon
Pick an exam format and stick to it
Luca Chandler
Multiculturalism is under fire
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge has its own toxic masculinity
Maddy Browne
Cambridge builds up the housing crisis
Maddy Browne argues that Cambridge’s housing issues are reflective of the national crisis
Jake Altmann
Does the AI revolution render coursework obsolete?
Jake Altmann argues that AI can compliment coursework as a mode of assessment
Gabrielle Lee
Cambridge students are too opinionated
Martha Rayner
Cambridge’s tourism risks commodifying students
Patrick Dolan
The Cambridge workload prioritises quantity over quality
Ellie Buckley
We have a fixation with tracking ourselves
Madeleine Wood
Death of the June Event?
Yashraj Garg
Cambridge’s gossip culture is a double-edged sword
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge can’t train public servants
Ffion Edwards
More Cambridge students should study abroad
Johana Trejtnar
Cambridge’s spaces still bear the past’s misogyny
Cambridge’s sexism can’t be resigned to the past, argues Johana Trejtnar
Varsity Comment
‘We’ have always been here
Queer communities have been present at Cambridge for much of its history
Jess Standring
Times up for exploitative porn
Chiraag Shah
Cambridge is in a public transport crisis
Maddie Harding
Why international aid matters
Maddy Browne
Flying the Pride flag is only the first step
Nick Davis
Cambridge is a masterclass in nostalgia
Letters
Letters to the Editors
Martha Rayner
Bring back unsexy activism
Rosie Roberts
Are May Balls worth their budgets?
Duncan Paterson
Weekly essays don’t do justice to important topics
Cambridge’s constant deadlines risk undermining the significance of the topics we study
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why I’m not a girlboss
A culture of corporate feminism risks alienating women who do not fit the girlboss image
Hattie Holford-Smith
We should all be able to Access-a-Ball
Daisy Hewitt
How a culture of knowing shapes the Cambridge application process
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why we should teach Latin in state schools
Letters
Letters to the Editors
Elsie McDowell
What colleges can learn from international relations
Nicole Banas
Do you know your housekeeper’s name?
Daisy Hewitt
The University must get to grips with gender attainment gaps
Evie McMahon
Why you should keep (either side of) term
Johana Trejtnar
How to breathe new life into Cambridge’s chapels
College chapels can serve the entire community, argues Johana Trejtnar
Erin McGurk
There is a hypocrisy of tolerance here at Cambridge
Erin McGurk argues that the tolerance advocated by left-leaning Cambridge students is often not put into practice
Rosie Roberts
Our lives shouldn’t be products
Benjamin Barrett-Miles
Why Oxbridge’s offers day matters
Martha Rayner
It’s time to change travel grants
Max La Bouchardiere
It’s pay-to-win for health and life skills at Cambridge
Martha Lucas
Student politics is at a crossroads
Luca Chandler
The news reads like satire, but the joke’s on us
Varsity Letters
Letters to the Editors
Duncan Paterson
The nasty aftertaste of Cambridge students’ stupidity
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