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St Catharine’s establishes first lectureship in Malay World studies
Swimming banned at Grantchester Meadows
Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack: family of Saskia Jones call for Learning Together leaders to step down
King’s College to host drop-in vaccination centre on Sunday
‘Anti-social behaviour’ motivated Grantchester swimming ban
Churchill Race and Empire Working Group condemns college for disbanding the group
University launches Covid-19 postgraduate hardship fund totalling £1 million
Spike in Covid-19 cases at University
Jesus College alumni support College proposal to remove Rustat plaque over slave trade connections
Practicing Resilience
What’s in a name?
On…Alignment
A word or two before I go
Spoons (not the pub)
Good Evening Europe, Good Morning Australia…
All That Glitters: When the Cambridge Dream becomes a Nightmare
What gardening has taught me
Finding Home in a Mainsburies shelf
Unfolding lives in scraps of paper
Aristotle and Access
Home is where the dough balls are
Exploring the Role of Diesel Generators in Mining
Looking for a Reliable Casino? Here Are 5 Tips
Tips for Successful Dating in Any Ages
Inspiration for new and exciting dates with your partner
Online Dating VS Offline Dating: What do People Prefer?
Online Games That Have Entranced the World’s Top Universities
Women in the gaming industry: a minority that needs to be acknowledged
New trends shape the online payment landscape – here’s why you should care
Hiking for Beginners: Essential Hiking Tips
Top 5 Engagement Ring Trends
Top 7 Basic Criteria for Betting Software
SeaWorld and Disney Partner Up For Coral Reef Environmental Initiative
Cambridge University’s Identity Crisis
What the University can learn from my first year
We must not return to pre-Covid socialising
Red star to black sun: China’s descent into fascism
Bill Gates may not be entirely correct about climate change, but he’s right about technology
Sex workers have been left behind by Covid-19 provisions
Making the inaccessible accessible
Justice for George Floyd
Why we must address the victim-blamers amongst us
The Starmer saga: why Labour’s future lies in populist progressivism
Jan-Werner Müller on democracy and its institutions
Manas Chawla & London Politica – the student-run, pro bono political risk advisory firm
Professor Geoffrey Ward: Diversity ‘is in our DNA’
Charlie Cavey – The Busker in the bin
“I definitely do have responsibility; the level of that responsibility I don’t know yet.” Max Fosh at The Cambridge Union
In Conversation with Wolf Alice
Daisy Dixon on aesthetics and the philosophy of art
Sir Christopher Greenwood: “My experience of government is that they normally bend over backwards to take the right decision”
The Edge Café: On Working at Cambridge’s Unique Café and Recovery Hub
Simon Godwin “We need Shakespeare to really roar back out of the box”
Which species should we save?
Cambridge study questions ‘bullshit jobs’ theory
Creating better hard disk drives with graphene
The Problem of Patents
Anti-Vax: A Crisis of Trust
Homo Scientificus v. Homo Economicus
Solving climate change, one person at a time
The ‘Future foods’ which could combat malnutrition
The evolution of urban greening
Varsity Explains: Making Sense of Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
On honesty and vulnerability in the age of social media
On haggling in our contactless economy  
Food for Thought
AskVulture: How can I move on from lockdown life?
I meditated for three months: it changed my life
How constellations help us to look inwards
On Grief, Love, and Poetry
AskVulture: What should I put on my post-exam Cambridge bucket list?
Dating App Hangovers
Varsity Reviews: The Orator – Cambridge Union’s New Bar and Brasserie
The untold escapism of autobiographies
The Mays Twenty Nine
The Complete Meditations of Elma Toyah: Meditations #4
On incompleteness and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s The Human Touch Exhibition
Taming my sleep paralysis hallucinations
Meditations #3: a poem
Meditations #1: a poem
On PTSD and Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone
Our relationship with the Architecture of Cambridge
Celine: Minimalism to Saint Laurent Replica?
It’s okay to have a seasonless summer
Versace VS Armani: Mistress and the Wife?
Varsity X CSVPA
Designer Spotlight: Molly Goddard
Selfhood and survival in ball culture
Influencers Shaking up the Industry
Talking to TikTokers
In discussion with Istanbul’s top designers
Designer Spotlight: Harris Reed
Cube: Claustrophobia, COVID and Capitalism
Shiva Baby is seventy-seven minutes of pure adrenaline
Autistic Characters in Film and TV: Authentic, or Archetypal?
Booksmart, the pandemic, and me
Nomadland and the Return of the Cinematic Community
The Vapid Escapism of Monday’s Holiday Romance
The Present swings between quotidian happiness and profound injustices
My Octopus Teacher
Trailblazer: Katharine Hepburn
Tragic epiphanies and the burden of meaning in Rick and Morty
The Grunge Revolution
Varsity’s music of 2020-2021
The chilling film music of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
An interview with Jim Glennie from James
Wolf Alice album review
St. Vincent album review
Hip-hop’s problem with labels
Varsity’s Music of the Month: May
The magic of tiny desk concerts
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) review
An Open Letter to Cambridge Theatre
The Parnassus Players: An engaging and witty satire of making theatre happen
The Trouble With Today’s Women has a potent political message but lacks cohesion
The Trouble With Today’s Women
Cambridge Theatre has a problem with the way it talks about sexual violence
The Way to San Francisco:
Memento Mori has plenty of laughs but struggled for definition
Diary of a Playwright: A Shakespearean Tragedy
‘Lost Boy’ is a touching exploration of the pain in growing up
“Warning – it might not all go smoothly!”
Oxford cruise past Cambridge 34-7 to win 139th Men’s Varsity Rugby Match
Oxford 5-10 Cambridge: Light Blues victorious in 34th Women’s Varsity Rugby Match
Live: Varsity Rugby Matches 2021
Oxford defeat Cambridge 2-0 to win 136th Men’s Varsity Football Match
Live: Varsity Football Matches 2021
Preview: Varsity Football Matches 2021
Eights Regatta Round-Up
Oxford 3-0 Cambridge: Dark Blues cruise to victory in 2021 Women’s Varsity Football Match
Cambridge 14-8 Oxford: Green Lions win first Rugby League Varsity title in twelve years
French Open 2021 Review: A tale of two tournaments
Switchboard S7, Ep 6: Navigating North and South
Switchboard S7, Ep. 5: Pride, Power and Partying
Switchboard S7, Ep 4: Investigating the Indian Covid Crisis
Switchboard S7, Ep 3: Seeking Sprituality
Switchboard S7, Ep 2: Matter On Your Mind
Switchboard S7, Ep 1: Learning from Lent
Varsity’s Lockdown Diaries
Switchboard S6, Ep.3: Mind Your Health
Switchboard S6, Ep.2: The Scoop On Toope
Switchboard S6, Ep.1: Disparity Strikes Despair

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