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India stands at a crossroads, where monuments, myths, and memories are reshaped by competing political agendas. Amid eff...
06/10/2025

India stands at a crossroads, where monuments, myths, and memories are reshaped by competing political agendas. Amid efforts to frame history through a single lens, attentive observation cuts through dominant narratives, revealing a country still defined by its layered identities, contested past, and enduring diversity.

Scroll through the full photo diary via the link in bio ❗️

✍️ Leila Isa

Cambridge’s ancient halls and gothic traditions are now being strategically appropriated by the Americanised New Populis...
30/09/2025

Cambridge’s ancient halls and gothic traditions are now being strategically appropriated by the Americanised New Populist Right. Their aim? To dress up US-style radicalism with the legitimacy and gravitas of the Enlightened tradition, even as they rail against academic elites - giving a reactionary movement a polished intellectual veneer. Left-Wing academics must become confident communicators with the public, lest the Populist Right take over these halls for good.

Read now at the link in bio❗️

✍️ Nicholas Davis

Beneath Japan’s polished exterior, deep economic and social anxieties are fueling a political shift. The far-right Sanse...
22/09/2025

Beneath Japan’s polished exterior, deep economic and social anxieties are fueling a political shift. The far-right Sanseito party’s surprising electoral gains reveal growing public frustration, channelling fears about stagnation and rising costs into nationalist and exclusionary rhetoric. Breaking through the romanticised image shows a nation grappling with decline - and offers a cautionary lesson from one island to another.

✍️ Jan Maciejewski

On August 9th, over 500 people - most aged 60 to 69 - were arrested under terrorism laws usually reserved for groups lik...
27/08/2025

On August 9th, over 500 people - most aged 60 to 69 - were arrested under terrorism laws usually reserved for groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. Their “crime”? Holding placards reading “I Oppose Genocide, I Support Palestine Action.”

This action was organised by . Among those detained was a Cambridge student and Professor Tony Booth, former candidate for Cambridge University’s chancellorship.

Both told TCS about their experience: witnessing police shift from handing out bottles of water to enforcing mass arrests.

Read the full piece at the link in bio: a surreal story of contradictions, and the growing threat to the right to protest in the UK.

✍️ Mila Edensor

Fresh off the printing press and in a plodge near you! A special thanks to everyone who contributed to this term’s print...
24/06/2025

Fresh off the printing press and in a plodge near you!

A special thanks to everyone who contributed to this term’s print edition 💖

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Revolution is never bloodless. In “Family First,” Norpell Wilberforce leads us into the catacombs of the hive, where loy...
16/06/2025

Revolution is never bloodless. In “Family First,” Norpell Wilberforce leads us into the catacombs of the hive, where loyalty, grief, and betrayal twist tighter than any webbing sac.

A buzzing debut for the new TCS Literature section.

✍️ Norpell Wilberforce

Eighty years after partition, the conflict over Kashmir continues to escalate. A ceasefire has been reached, but trust i...
11/05/2025

Eighty years after partition, the conflict over Kashmir continues to escalate. A ceasefire has been reached, but trust is fragile, and violations have already been alleged. As leaders posture and deflect, it is the innocent who continue to pay the price.

✍️ Zeynah Yusuf

Newspapers used to publish fiction, poetry, and experimental writing. Then they stopped. We’re asking - why? And more im...
10/05/2025

Newspapers used to publish fiction, poetry, and experimental writing. Then they stopped. We’re asking - why? And more importantly: what if we brought it back?

The Cambridge Student is launching a new literature section. All forms, genres, and styles welcome.

Send submissions to [email protected]
Mila Edensor, Editor-in-Chief 💖

In conversation with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: the astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, challenged systemic barriers,...
16/03/2025

In conversation with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: the astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, challenged systemic barriers, and remains a fierce advocate for women in science.

Awarded the 2024 Hawking Fellowship, she reflects on her groundbreaking work, the sexism she endured, and why equity in STEM still matters.

✍️ Ami Khawaja

Eva Lemmy’s Macbeth opens this Thursday in King’s College Chapel—a truly singular event in a venue that rarely hosts the...
13/03/2025

Eva Lemmy’s Macbeth opens this Thursday in King’s College Chapel—a truly singular event in a venue that rarely hosts theatre.

Candlelit, intimate, and laced with psychological tension, this production brings the supernatural horror of The Woman in Black into the grandeur of an Elizabethan chapel.

With original string quartet music, a charged proximity between actors and audience, and a focus on lightness as a force for good, this Macbeth promises to unsettle as much as it captivates.

Tickets are scarce—don’t miss out!

✍️ Mark Holland

A fierce confrontation between duty and defiance—Antigone at the Corpus Playroom delivers raw emotion, sharp philosophy,...
03/03/2025

A fierce confrontation between duty and defiance—Antigone at the Corpus Playroom delivers raw emotion, sharp philosophy, and an unyielding will to resist.

A modern tragedy that lingers long after the final act.

✍️ Ximena Irlarte-Estrada

Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance was politically charged, but when Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu staged an unsanctioned act of r...
26/02/2025

Kendrick’s Super Bowl performance was politically charged, but when Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu staged an unsanctioned act of resistance—standing atop Kendrick’s GNX with flags for Palestine and Sudan—he was silenced, blacklisted, and erased from the official broadcast. Meanwhile, Kendrick’s ‘resistance’ was funded by Apple and produced by Roc Nation.

When the revolution is programmed, sponsored, and watched by the very forces it claims to resist, is it still resistance? Or just another spectacle for consumption?

✍️ Balqiis Ali

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