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Cambridge researchers fight back against ‘bad science’
Honorary St Edmund’s fellow and Vatican official charged with sexual offences
Zeichner resigns from Shadow Cabinet over Single Market
Join the Varsity Team in Michaelmas 2017
A group of junior researchers at Cambridge have established a campaign against the damaging pressure to produce “sexier” results
Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s Treasurer and advisor to the Pope, has been charged with multiple sexual offences
May Ball Review: Jesus
May Ball Review: Corpus Christi 
Garden Party Review: Cam FM
May Ball Review: Pembroke
Katie Williams wonders why we relish tragedy on the page and our screens – is it simply distanced adrenaline, or something more?
Review
Aimee Lister comments on the playful yet sophisticated ambience at Newnham College’s ‘Big Top’ Garden Party 4 stars
Emma Thompson: ‘Don’t pretend that this world is equal – it’s not. It’s a patriarchy’
Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds at Downing’s Heong Gallery
Pub Punditry: The Free Press
Neil MacGregor: History, Faith, and Dürer’s Rhinoceros
Anna McGee gives her verdict on the Heong’s summer exhibition, featuring works by Downing alumnus and illustrator extraordinaire Quentin Blake
Interview
Anna Menin and Clara van Wel meet the Newnham alumna to talk comedy and failure. And the female orgasm.
Best Horror: ‘The Shining’
Best Director: The Wonderful World of Wes
Review: Asserting that ‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’
VARSITY FILM SURVEY 2017
With Wes Anderson’s latest feature in the works, Robert Crawford takes an admiring look back over the works of his, and, according to our 2017 survey, Cambridge’s, favourite film director
FILM
The latest addition to the DC canon has largely been applauded; Pany Heliotis contributes a more critical opinion on this popcorn delight of superhero action
I love The Beatles. But they and their fans have a women problem
Classical music’s diversity crisis: time to change the tune
What does BTS’s Billboard Music Award mean for K-Pop? Not much
Review: Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Women were instrumental to The Beatles’ success but they’ve been written out of history, writes Sarah Wilson
A stimulating though stylistically confused performance of Bach’s great masterpiece, writes Kavi Pau
Androgynous Fashion: Challenging the status-quo
Ballet and Balmain: a match made in heaven
‘Post-Soviet’ Fashion: Changing Perceptions
Alex Reeds looks at how rapper Young Thug is blurring the boundaries of masculine and feminine fashion through his own unique style
Robyn Schaffer explains the crossover between the worlds of fashion and dance, in relation to Balmain’s recent collaboration with the Paris Opera Ballet
Review: Utopia on Punts
Review: The Language Archive
Straw Man: Back to school
REVIEW
Amid the heat of the Corpus Playroom, Celeste Pan finds this May Week tragicomedy “tastefully and thoughtfully executed” 4 stars
REVIEW
A ‘magical’ experience in a beautiful location, Vanessa Braganza recommends the Clare Actors’ performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.5 stars
British and Irish Lions: comeback time?
‘We really feel like we’re behind enemy lines’: 2017 Varsity tennis preview
Cambridge fall to disappointing loss in Varsity Athletics
Following their 30-15 loss in the First Test, Ben Cisneros looks at what the Lions have to do in order to win the Second
Imran Marashli met Blues captains Jerry Ganendra and Jenni Mair to discuss how CULTC are shaping up on the eve of their season-defining fixture
COMMENT
Alexander Russell
The paper thin line between appropriation and appreciation
We should welcome attempts to engage with non-Western culture, even if we must acknowledge their flaws
Elizabeth Howcroft
Like Cambridge, May Balls are financially exclusive
Elizabeth Howcroft looks at the paradox of access officers in white tie, and asks whether May Balls perpetuate a culture of exclusivity and entitlement
Harry Robertson
Corbyn has done what no Blairite could do
Roger Mosey
The mainstream media isn’t perfect, but we should cherish it
Sarah Wilson
It’s a myth that hard work is all you need to succeed
Daisy Eyre
Why now is the time to get excited about CUSU
Lauren Carneiro
The Grenfell Tower fire shames our society
Lola Olufemi
Postcolonial writing is not an afterthought; it is British literature
Lauren Carneiro
Oxford’s non-white, non-European history paper does not go far enough
Ed McNally
Corbyn’s departure from the centre has been vindicated