The unlikely culture war over the otherwise mundane ‘15-minute city’ has been a misinformation masterclass, with the government at its centre, argues Matthew Taylor
The major parties’ rejection of more mobility for young people in the EU shows that the UK is still not ready to deal with the effects of Brexit, arguesElsie McDowell
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Luca Chandler
What anthropology can teach us outside the classroom
Viewing the world as an anthropologist might just provide the empathy we need
Alex Lee
Give humanities students a pathway to academia
HSPS Part III? The time has come, argues Alex Lee
Evie McMahon
An ode to the welfare walk
Wilf Vall
Cambridge hasn’t been infantilised, it’s grown up
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge’s LinkedIn culture has changed the meaning of connection
Lily Alford
Labour needs to cultivate a better relationship with Britain’s farmers
Jack Marley
The empowering history of Cambridge’s neurodiversity
Eliza Ousey
Reclaim the Gym!
Evie Nicholson
How can we fix the crisis in higher education?
Sydney Heintz
Don’t (just) go to your lectures
Grace Cobb
Celebrity deaths are not for clickbait
Why are we suddenly losing self-awareness in the face of celebrity death?
Rosie Roberts
A defence of Cambridge clubbing
Our clubs may be bad but it’s our snobbery that gets in the way of us enjoying them, argues Rosie Roberts
Max La Bouchardiere
The radical politics of Halloween
Tom Ainscough
The Grafton Centre is Cambridge’s true hidden gem
Long Read
Starmer’s first 100 days, according to Cantabs
Lili Fairclough
What the media get wrong about male violence against women
Evie McMahon
Universities need to reconsider their outlook on A-Level resits
Daisy Stewart Henderson
On the EasyJetification of Eastern Europe
Laura Malaussene
Europe’s summer of discontent
Sam Moore
Cambridge’s new free speech code is a return to the culture wars
Max La Bouchardiere
Long-distance relationships make Cambridge easier
Being long-distance with your partner at Cambridge allows you to swap feelings of academic pressure with idealism, argues Max La Bouchardiere
Daisy Stewart Henderson
My college’s terrible gender imbalance has a lot to do with meritocracy
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues Trinity’s meritocratic admissions system benefits dispraportionately confident men
Head to Head
Head to head: Freshers’ Fair or Freshers’ Foul?
Rosie Roberts
Shake off our parasocial politics
Tom Ainscough
Cambridge is cooking up a kitchen problem
Maddy Browne
In praise of the local library
Laura Malaussene
Starmer’s tobacco ban gives people back their freedom
Luca Chandler
AI doesn’t have to be as frightening as it seems
Hattie Holford-Smith
The unspoken divides of the long vacation
Alex Lee
Goodbye to my beloved bike
Naomi Cray
Misinformation, violence, and Facebook
Government reforms need to go further if we want to curb online misinformation
Fatima's Fieldnotes
The riots shouldn’t have come as a surprise
Conservative anti-immigration rhetoric only intensified the riots
Joe Parsons
We need to talk about Mickey Mouse degrees
Eliza Ousey
We need to rethink how we view school privilege
Tom Ainscough
Why we should be reading newspapers
Evie McMahon
College families counteract the pressure of Freshers’ week
Hugh Jones
Make Cambridge easier – just not too much
Rosie Roberts
Stop debating women’s colleges
Alex Lee
Colleges should stop gatekeeping the backs
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge has a troubled relationship with Scottish students
Tom Ainscough
Just Stop Overreacting
Our contempt for Just Stop Oil’s methods is concerningly over the top, argues Tom Ainscough
Lauren Bird
What Cambridge gets right about mental health
Cambridge offers a blueprint for helping young people dealing with mental illness
Sydney Heintz
Bring back memorisation
Maddy Browne
University can be a halfway house for young people
Lauren Bird
England’s rioters have an entitlement problem
Editorial
Cambridge and its students are not for political point scoring
Opinion
Against the bratification of Kamala Harris
Opinion
Ed Davey’s biggest stunt? Reviving the Lib Dems
Opinion
When I fly home, I become a different person
Opinion
Trump survived, but can American democracy?
Opinion
This country will be a difficult one for Labour to unite
Lili Fairclough takes stock of the obstacles the Labour Party face and casts doubt on Starmer’s ability to get past them
Opinion
Let’s turn the tide on political cynicism
We must give Labour the opportunity to prove themselves, argues Amenie Groves
Opinion
Open days: fact versus fiction
Opinion
Social mobility: it’s a double-barrelled shotgun
Opinion
Faculties must make exam timetables fairer
Fatima's Fieldnotes
Town vs gown? Bridging the imaginary chasm
Opinion
I voted Labour, but I’m not sure I did the right thing
Fatima's Fieldnotes
The TikTokification of the ‘genny lec’ was an unwelcome distraction
Head to Head
Can things only get better?
Opinion
How the dad bod won politics
Opinion
Urban planning should not be this controversial
The unlikely culture war over the otherwise mundane ‘15-minute city’ has been a misinformation masterclass, with the government at its centre, argues Matthew Taylor
Opinion
The University risks making a blunder out of the Benin plunder
Sam Hudson argues Cambridge must repudiate the illegitimate claims of Nigerian Royals to get out of their Benin bind
Opinion
The Gen-Z-ification of culture is giving me the ick
Opinion
Is the library a thing of the past?
Opinion
Cambridge’s northerners need a reality check
Opinion
The English Faculty had bugs to fix long before the Inspera implosion
Matthew Taylor
Is co-ed the answer?
Head to Head
You May (or May not) go to the Ball
Opinion
Thanks Debbie Prentice, but a trip to the North West isn’t enough
Opinion
Let’s reclaim student travelling for all
Opinion
The SU is floundering, and I’m not that bothered
Matthew Taylor argues that student activism can be just as effective without the SU acting as a tired old middleman
Opinion
No, I won’t bring my parents to lunch
It is problematic for college fundraising events to be dependent on parents, argues Matthew Taylor
Opinion
The end of Glitterbomb and the importance of a rubbish club night
Fatima's Fieldnotes
Grassroots student activism has outgrown Cambridge’s political societies
Opinion
Sick of the status quo? Register to vote
Opinion
The SU is floundering, and I’m worried
Opinion
University shouldn’t feel like we’ve hardly left home
Opinion
The Cass Review fails to move beyond ideology
Opinion
Messy rooms or messed up priorities?
Opinion
Bawling over a garden party
Opinion
Chairs were never meant to cause this much stress
Esther Knowles asks those who get worked up by seat-bagsying practices in libraries to find something more important to worry about
Opinion
EU youth mobility is exactly what the UK needs
The major parties’ rejection of more mobility for young people in the EU shows that the UK is still not ready to deal with the effects of Brexit, argues Elsie McDowell
Opinion
Sunak’s struggle against the sick note won’t sink Sir Keir
Fatima's Fieldnotes
Accepting black people into Cambridge is not an act of discrimination
Opinion
Cambridge is right to scrap its state school target
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
The removal of school type in future access plans needs to be executed carefully, argues Matthew Taylor
Ruby Cline
Remote learning is here to stay, whether we like it or not
The University should take heed of NHS technology thinkers’ warnings, Ruby Cline argues.
Sam Hudson
The University is right to cut funding for private ADHD diagnoses
Joe Cowan
Darwin without a chance of Meat Balls
Omar Burhanuddin
UK universities are sacrificing widening access for foreign fees
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?
Colleges should spend less money on free drink receptions, and more on the things that actually matter
Sam Nicholson
When did a trip to the shop become so dystopian?
We must tackle the roots as well as the symptoms of economic despair, argues Sam Nicholson
Alice Mainwood
Can Cambridge get International Women’s Day right?
Katie Heggs
Is this the end of (Union) democracy?
Calum Murray
The Gaza vote crisis reveals parliament’s deep dysfunction
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
Manhoor Cheema’s story reveals a darker side to the British educational system
Maddy Browne
The trap of apathy and creating our own politics
Even when student life gets too much, we can still find ways to connect to our lives as citizens
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
Ruby Cline
Cambridge has ruined our love languages
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
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