From deals to degrees: a day in the life of a part time student

Vienna Kwan sits down with law firm executive and Judge Business School student Jan-Patrik Reimann to talk about life as a full time professional, and part time student. 

Cariad Lloyd on her hit improv show Austentatious

Priya Watkinson talks to the writer, podcaster, actor, and comedian

‘The digitalisation of humanity is destroying what it means to be human’: Sophie Winkleman on the dangers of smartphones

Meet Pembroke’s outreach and admissions team

St John’s writer-in-residence Vona Groarke on Cambridge’s ‘vibrant literary culture’

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Bodies In The Bookshop owner Richard Reynolds

‘It’s not for me to put a full stop on anything’: Ben Schott on writing like Wodehouse

‘We need to have these conversations in our living rooms’: Jara Phattey on HIV awareness

How to write the perfect ghost story with playwright Aisha Zia

Ella Howard talks all things scary with Aisha Zia ahead of her upcoming production, More Ghost Stories in Candlelight

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Alessio D’Angelo on trading Revs for the Union presidency

Alessio D’Angelo discusses his vision for the Union and life leasons from its speakers

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‘No idea is too crazy’: tips from Pink Week’s most successful college rep

Olympics

‘Coming to Cambridge was a risk’: Olympic silver medalist Tom George on the career gamble that paid off

Olympics

Paralympic Bronze medalist Jan Helmich on his Paris experience and lasting legacy on the Blues system

‘How do you live a wise life?’: understanding education with Min Jin Lee

Quickfire

Meet the students dedicated to reviewing Cambridge college brunches

Interviews

Remember Monday: friendship, feminism, and the future 

The trio speak to Sophie Denny about quitting their jobs to achieve their dream of becoming a full-time band

Interviews

‘It was like a license to ask questions’: Scott Malcomson on his journalistic jaunts

Interviews

Keala Settle on the many costumes of life 

Quick-fire

Coffees and chats: judging Cam’s cafés 

Interviews

Professor Brendan Burchell on a four-day workweek

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Socio-economics and the complexity of the university experience

Quick-fire

Between a rock and a hard place: Naomi Lines on facing Kilimanjaro 

Interview

Stories from a Stormzy scholar

Jude Crawley speaks to the scheme’s first ever recipient about breaking barriers and meeting the man

Long read

Wes Streeting: from student campaigner to cabinet minister?

Interviews

From Castle Mound to Fashion Week: Lily Maguire on being a ‘creative’ 

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A conversation in G. David: the last of Cambridge’s old bookshops 

Interviews

‘It’s basically the new Met Gala’: King’s Affair 2024

Interviews

Lord Chris Smith on the art of politics, and the politics of the arts

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Staging the spectacle of politics with Armando Iannucci 

Interviews

Jim Al-Khalili on Cunk and the powers of ‘Edutainment’

Pop science icon Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE on Philomena Cunk, science outreach and the future of educational entertainment

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Queering academia and beyond with Diarmuid Hester

Long Read

The Traitors’ Paul Gorton on playing the bad guy

Interview

‘All you need is a pair of trainers’: Leah Mundy on running the London Marathon

Long Read

‘Cambridge makes me feel exactly how I felt as a student’: author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera

Interview

‘The permacrisis need not be permanent’

A lesson on adaptation with author Bonnie Garmus

Alan Rusbridger on revolutionising The Guardian

Sana Soomro speaks to the former editor of The Guardian about the future of journalism

‘When you stop being curious, you stop being a good diplomat’: Peter Abbott OBE

‘It fills you with a sense of awe’: the year abroad experience

‘I don’t think I’ll ever stop’: White Teeth author and Cambridge alumna Zadie Smith

‘Epilepsy is so much more than seizures’: Chelsea Leyland on destigmatising the condition

Bridging cultures through music: inside Europe’s largest student-led Chinese orchestra

Booktok sensation Ayman reveals the story behind her success

The Pink Week president on its biggest, boldest and brightest year yet

Patrick Dolan sits down with the president of Pink Week to discuss their continued fight against breast cancer

Tommy Blaize’s glittering career

Naima Clarvis speaks to the Strictly singer ahead of his UK solo tour

Andrew Mitchell MP on the next election and Cameron’s return

Interview

Jeremy Pritchard talks Everything Everything from AI the road to success

BBC Broadcaster Simon Hall on realising “Fundamentally, I am a writer”

Amy Munro-Faure on Cambridge Zero’s fight against climate change

How Seán Hewitt writes the books he wished for as a child

Behind the scenes at the Cambridge centre researching new solutions for climate change

Alice Markham: life as a singer, songwriter and student

Joe Seddon’s fight to transform UK higher education and beyond

PaigeY and Elena Handtrack: Life after the bubble bursts

Youtubers PaigeY and Elena Handtrack reflect back on their time in the bubble and the connection they found by making their ‘online diaries’

Robert Peston: ‘British exceptionalism today is a pernicious idea’

Ella McCartney speaks to Robert Peston about journalism, geopolitics, and his ‘middle-aged dad’ rock cover band

Interview

Why are periods so political? Molly Fenton reminds us how to ‘Love your Period’

Interview

CURR: the ‘special society’ giving a voice to all

DJ and Vet Med Anish Kumar’s double life

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

‘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

‘We don’t hate May Balls!’ – Jorja Korosec, president of MWA, tells Varsity about her mission to get students donating to charity during May Week

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

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

Eliza Ousey speaks to Ed Stafford about the mindset behind his ambitious expeditions, and how TV can champion social justice

Quickfire

Alison Wright: Cambridge through the window of Fitzbillies

Isabella Dowden chats to the owner of the much-loved Cambridge institution on the opening day of their new cake shop

‘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

Interview

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

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

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‘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

Film editor Eddie Hamilton talks about finding his feet in the industry, and what AI means for the future of film

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

Isabella Dowden speaks to Fiona Campbell about the channel’s legacy of defining youth culture, and why regional representation on TV matters

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

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

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

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

‘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

The psychotherapist-turned-politician speaks to Varsity on her vision for America, Joe Biden, and why her White House bid should be taken seriously.

In conversation with Jimmy’s homeless charity

Varsity sits down with the CEO of Jimmy’s to learn about homelessness in Cambridge, provisions available, and what students can do to help

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”

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

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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’