Articles

  • 1 week ago | varsity.co.uk | Wilf Vall |Anuk Weerawardana

    Pro-Palestine students have established an encampment outside Magdalene College, claiming that the College is leveraging “plausible deniability” in “Israeli genocide”. Activists set up tents on the College’s riverbanks at 10 AM this morning (21/06), after approaching the College on rubber dinghies to enter the grounds.

  • 1 week ago | buff.ly | Wilf Vall

    Over 150 academics have launched a rebellion to limit the University of Cambridge’s use of court injunctions to restrict protest, claiming that legal action poses a serious threat to freedom of expression. English professor and member of University Council Jason Scott-Warren submitted a grace – the means of triggering a vote on University policy – that would prevent Cambridge from extending its High Court injunctions against protest to the University Council last week.

  • 1 week ago | varsity.co.uk | Wilf Vall

    Over 150 academics have launched a rebellion to limit the University of Cambridge’s use of court injunctions to restrict protest, claiming that legal action poses a serious threat to freedom of expression. English professor and member of University Council Jason Scott-Warren submitted a grace – the means of triggering a vote on University policy – that would prevent Cambridge from extending its High Court injunctions against protest to the University Council last week.

  • 1 week ago | buff.ly | Anuk Weerawardana |Wilf Vall

    Anuk Weerawardana and Wilf Vall talk to the enigmatic outfit about reinvention, experimentation, and their Cambridge roots  If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re a Cambridge student, and if you’re a Cambridge student there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Black Country, New Road, or – if you’re like us – have been mildly obsessed with the band since their debut studio album For the first time released in early 2021.

  • 2 weeks ago | varsity.co.uk | Wilf Vall

    Erika Bunjevac for VarsityAs someone who struggled with imposter syndrome coming to Cambridge, I did not expect to feel at home at a May Ball. The idea of a multi-hundred-pound, champagne-fuelled, all-night long party in a Cambridge College was a alien form of entertainment from my native Teesside nights out.