Sam Elgar
Sam Elgar argues that Cambridge needs to think about the consequences of divestment
Ivo Morrey
Ivo Morrey explores the inhumane nature of Cambridge pubs
Yashraj Garg
Elena Buermann
Holly Farrell
Beth Wade
Navya Sharma Tyagali
Daisy Hewitt
Kit Roberts
Head to Head
April O’Neill and Daisy Stewart Henderson debate whether the rewards scholars receive are elitist or empowering
Calum Murray
Calum Murray argues that claims free speech is under threat at Cambridge come, perplexingly, from those most intent on ending it
Joshua Prince
Amelie Rothwell
Nessa Yip
Olive Watt
Wilf Vall
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Duncan Paterson
Alex Rutter
April O'Neill
April O’Neill argues that the lack of domestic tasks Cambridge students have to complete does nothing to make them competent adults
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that a focus on ourselves prevents us from giving each other the benefit of the doubt
Duncan Paterson
Abril Duarte González
Remy Rushbrooke
Talia Jacobs
Bibi Boyce
Bibi Boyce discusses how the current poster-girl of the UK porn industry is shamelessly causing severe damage to women
Jamilla Wichmann
Jamilla Wichmann argues that Cambridge’s supervision system reflects the oft-forgotten British value of open-mindedness
Ellana Cowan
Jasper Finlay Burnside
Kit Roberts urges finalists to make memories outside of the library in their last year at Cambridge
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino reflects on the rise of the far-right on both sides of the Atlantic
Emy Bengtsson
Comment
Gabrielle Saraway
Katie Nicholson
Ellana Cowan argues that Cambridge isn’t doing enough to support disabled students to apply to the university
Remy Rushbrooke proposes a paradoxical solution for Cambridge’s ‘culture of overwork’
Ben Curtis
Charlie Rowan
Elsie McDowell
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that allowing sixteen-year-olds to vote doesn’t have to be a radical prospect
Ben Lubitsh
Ben Lubitsh argues that Cambridge students are not always willing to engage in complex debates in an open-minded way
Bernard Shiu
Tia Ribbo
Jack Deasley
Greg Quinn
Greg Quinn argues that the apparent instability of May Balls is nothing new
Maddy Browne
What do Cantabs think about AI? Four students tell Maddy Browne their thoughts on how AI will impact our futures
head to head
Anonymous student
Maddie Harding
Ffion Edwards
Outreach will fall short until comprehensive schools are set apart from grammars in admissions, argues Ffion Edwards
Katie Nicholson argues that the well-meaning assumption that all Cambridge students suffer from impostor syndrome does more harm than good
Martha Rayner
Chiraag Shah
Johana Trejtnar
Luca Chandler
Dylan Stewart
Dylan Stewart stresses the significance of Pope Francis’s legacy, and argues that it will endure regardless of the new trajectory of the Catholic Church
Evie McMahon
Evie McMahon argues that the changing format of exams will keep causing more harm than good
Jake Altmann
Gabrielle Lee
Patrick Dolan
Ellie Buckley
Madeleine Wood
Madeleine Wood questions what the are implications for Cambridge’s big week
Gossip harms our community as much as it does individuals, argues Yashraj Garg
Varsity Comment
Jess Standring
Nick Davis
College Masters risk losing themselves to nostalgia, argues Nick Davis
Letters
Your letters to the Editors, from lectures to Latin
Rosie Roberts
Hattie Holford-Smith
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COMMENT
Sam Elgar
Year of the Hawk: divestment in an era of European war
Sam Elgar argues that Cambridge needs to think about the consequences of divestment
Ivo Morrey
Plastic pubs: the problem with Cambridge alehouses
Ivo Morrey explores the inhumane nature of Cambridge pubs
Yashraj Garg
What happened to men at Cambridge?
Elena Buermann
The SU’s retreat on plant-based food reveals our appetite for ignorance
Holly Farrell
League tables do more harm than good
Beth Wade
The ‘class’ of Cambridge
Navya Sharma Tyagali
Yes, I’m brown – but I have more important things to say
Daisy Hewitt
The magic of an eight-week term
Kit Roberts
Forget AI, we need to start talking about quantum
Daisy Hewitt
Stop pretending you’re not privileged
Head to Head
Surely it’s time to scrap scholars’ dinners?
April O’Neill and Daisy Stewart Henderson debate whether the rewards scholars receive are elitist or empowering
Calum Murray
Cambridge is woke – that’s no bad thing
Calum Murray argues that claims free speech is under threat at Cambridge come, perplexingly, from those most intent on ending it
Daisy Hewitt
Cambridge can’t beat AI
Joshua Prince
Don’t get lost in the Bermuda Triangle of job hunting
Amelie Rothwell
Confidence isn’t earned, it’s bought
Nessa Yip
AI isn’t worth the environmental costs
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
April O’Neill argues that the lack of domestic tasks Cambridge students have to complete does nothing to make them competent adults
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Have we forgotten how to empathise?
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that a focus on ourselves prevents us from giving each other the benefit of the doubt
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
Remy Rushbrooke
Nathan Cofnas shouldn’t be silenced
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
Bibi Boyce discusses how the current poster-girl of the UK porn industry is shamelessly causing severe damage to women
Jamilla Wichmann
Open-mindedness is a British value
Jamilla Wichmann argues that Cambridge’s supervision system reflects the oft-forgotten British value of open-mindedness
Elena Buermann
Flying the flag, properly
Duncan Paterson
When colleges raise rents, everybody loses
April O'Neill
Cambridge needs a proper Freshers’ Week
Head to Head
Should Cambridge be investing in programmes over people?
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
Kit Roberts urges finalists to make memories outside of the library in their last year at Cambridge
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Travelling to Trump’s America
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino reflects on the rise of the far-right on both sides of the Atlantic
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
Comment
A fleshy realisation
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
Ellana Cowan argues that Cambridge isn’t doing enough to support disabled students to apply to the university
Comment
Who could possibly want more exams?
Remy Rushbrooke proposes a paradoxical solution for Cambridge’s ‘culture of overwork’
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
April O'Neill
Put an end to the unpaid internship
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
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that allowing sixteen-year-olds to vote doesn’t have to be a radical prospect
Ben Lubitsh
Stop disarming people of their nuance
Ben Lubitsh argues that Cambridge students are not always willing to engage in complex debates in an open-minded way
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?
Bernard Shiu
It’s not just Trump who’s after international students
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
Greg Quinn argues that the apparent instability of May Balls is nothing new
Maddy Browne
Open(ing up about) AI
What do Cantabs think about AI? Four students tell Maddy Browne their thoughts on how AI will impact our futures
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
Katie Nicholson
The importance of student protests isn’t up for debate
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
Outreach will fall short until comprehensive schools are set apart from grammars in admissions, argues Ffion Edwards
Katie Nicholson
Impostor syndrome isn’t a rite of passage
Katie Nicholson argues that the well-meaning assumption that all Cambridge students suffer from impostor syndrome does more harm than good
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
Jasper Finlay Burnside
What Scotland can teach us about Reform’s coming wave
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
Dylan Stewart stresses the significance of Pope Francis’s legacy, and argues that it will endure regardless of the new trajectory of the Catholic Church
Evie McMahon
Pick an exam format and stick to it
Evie McMahon argues that the changing format of exams will keep causing more harm than good
Luca Chandler
Multiculturalism is under fire
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge has its own toxic masculinity
Maddy Browne
Cambridge builds up the housing crisis
Jake Altmann
Does the AI revolution render coursework obsolete?
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?
Madeleine Wood questions what the are implications for Cambridge’s big week
Yashraj Garg
Cambridge’s gossip culture is a double-edged sword
Gossip harms our community as much as it does individuals, argues Yashraj Garg
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
Varsity Comment
‘We’ have always been here
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
College Masters risk losing themselves to nostalgia, argues Nick Davis
Letters
Letters to the Editors
Your letters to the Editors, from lectures to Latin
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
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why I’m not a girlboss
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
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