Feelings of being closer to home whilst afar causes international students to magnify or mask their culture, but there is beauty in the middle ground, argues Maria Eduarda Paixao
We should reject the LinkedIn culture of assessing our peers through impressive statistics, and instead look at each other as human beings, argues Daisy Stewart Henderson
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Ffion Edwards
More Cambridge students should study abroad
Ffion Edwards argues that Cambridge students deprived of the chance to 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
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?
Big name May Balls waste more money than they’re worth, argues Rosie Roberts
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
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
Being in Cambridge early and late can help us survive term, argues Evie McMahon
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
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
Duncan Paterson argues that incidents of drunken stupidity reflect dark undercurrents of entitlement within Cambridge
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Holocaust remembrance is Gen Z’s responsibility
As the last generation for whom it remains in living memory, we must commit to Holocaust remembrance
Freddie Reid
Universities need fewer students
Elsie McDowell
Veganism shouldn’t be about perfection
Eloise Thompson
The new History tripos is a step in the right direction
Rosie Roberts
It’s not sharking, it’s harassment
Johana Trejtnar
Why university rankings don’t add up
Daisy Stewart Henderson
In praise of part-time jobs
Varsity Letters
Letters to the Editors
Matthew Taylor
Let’s be more literal about Lent
Chiraag Shah
What happened to being well-rounded?
Chiraag Shah argues that an excessive focus on employability devalues interdisciplinarity
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Have we become too open about our mental health?
We must not forget the privilege and politicisation associated with emotional openness
Luca Chandler
Fighting climate change on your (college) doorstep
Evie McMahon
Cambridge’s outreach departments deserve some love
Chiraag Shah
The case for handwritten exams
Head to Head
Head-to-head: West Hub revision raving
Duncan Paterson
The privilege of not thinking politically
Long Read
It’s time to confront society’s rape culture
Max La Bouchardiere
Tolerating anti-intellectualism supports the ‘career-ification’ of university
Ben Lubitsh
Gen Z’s (not so) unlikely hero
Maddie Harding
Deck the halls and do the dishes
Christmas is sustained by female labour, argues Maddie Harding
Alex Lee
All I want for Christmas is (tof)u
Alex Lee ponders the potential of meat-free Christmas dinners
Elsie McDowell
London has a Cambridge problem
Daisy Stewart Henderson
In pursuit of the Protestant work ethic at Cambridge
Maddy Browne
University chancellorships are not fit for the 21st-century
Rosie Roberts
Why can’t voters trust women leaders?
Ezra Izer
The supervision system that doesn’t supervise itself
Eliza Ousey
How do I write about street safety?
Luca Chandler
COP29 failed those who need it most
Zoë Randolph
Trump’s second election hits Americans harder than his first
Fatima Zahra Yusuf
Let’s stop pretending drinking socs can be inclusive
Drinking societies will always been designed to suit the elite
Maria Eduarda Paixao
Overcompensating or culturally in touch? On being an international student
Feelings of being closer to home whilst afar causes international students to magnify or mask their culture, but there is beauty in the middle ground, argues Maria Eduarda Paixao
Sam Martin
Britain should learn from Canada’s mistakes on assisted suicide
Hugh Jones
Cambridge students need lessons in employment too
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Growing up with Trump: how can Gen-Z reclaim politics?
Grace Cobb
Cambridge’s safety nets are often superficial
Luca Chandler
What anthropology can teach us outside the classroom
Alex Lee
Give humanities students a pathway to academia
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
We should reject the LinkedIn culture of assessing our peers through impressive statistics, and instead look at each other as human beings, argues Daisy Stewart Henderson
Lily Alford
Labour needs to cultivate a better relationship with Britain’s farmers
Britain’s farmers and Britain’s government can reach a solution which helps them both
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
Rosie Roberts
A defence of Cambridge clubbing
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
Cambridge students weigh in on the problems already facing the new Labour government
Lili Fairclough
What the media get wrong about male violence against women
Gender-based violence needs responsible reporting
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
Daisy Stewart Henderson
My college’s terrible gender imbalance has a lot to do with meritocracy
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
Many college kitchens are not built to serve our needs
Maddy Browne
In praise of the local library
The impact of local libraries is not be underestimated
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
Fatima's Fieldnotes
The riots shouldn’t have come as a surprise
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
Tom Ainscough asks: Is it time to ditch social media for the newspaper?
Evie McMahon
College families counteract the pressure of Freshers’ week
Evie McMahon argues that college families help freshers socialise faster, during a week of essays and work
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
Lauren Bird
What Cambridge gets right about mental health
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
Instead of blaming migrants for the north’s problems, far-right agitators should look in the mirror
Editorial
Cambridge and its students are not for political point scoring
Felix Armstrong argues that the University’s high profile can see it pulled unwillingly into culture war debates
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
Opinion
Let’s turn the tide on political cynicism
Opinion
Open days: fact versus fiction
Opinion
Social mobility: it’s a double-barrelled shotgun
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