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Strawberry Fair is a living infrastructure, a free party rebuilt yearly by a shifting cast of volunteers, traders and or...
31/05/2026

Strawberry Fair is a living infrastructure, a free party rebuilt yearly by a shifting cast of volunteers, traders and organisers, its networks stretching far beyond the city.

TCS sat down with Strawberry Fair veteran Mark McGivern to talk about the festival’s dynamic transformations - organisers, acts and revellers across the years - and its consistent identity as a space for counterculture and community.

The free festival will splash colourfully onto Cambridge’s Midsummer Common on Saturday, June 6

✍️ Mila Edensor

Today’s win for the Greens is monumental. Hannah Spencer’s success has shaken Britain’s political orthodoxy to its very ...
27/02/2026

Today’s win for the Greens is monumental. Hannah Spencer’s success has shaken Britain’s political orthodoxy to its very foundations.

“We had 18 Young Green members last May,” says Mosonyi, Cambridge Secretary – “now we’re at over 500.”

“The energy on the ground in Manchester has been absolutely incredible - people beeping and cheering from cars. I’m so proud of the campaign we’ve run, and so emotional that we’ve managed to pull this off”

– Amy Bower, membership officer for the Manchester Greens

“We must ask the question: to what extent does a valorisation of ‘free-speech’ inspire student committees to invite the ...
16/02/2026

“We must ask the question: to what extent does a valorisation of ‘free-speech’ inspire student committees to invite the far-right, or does the attractive proposition of polemic notoriety and fame overpower committee consideration entirely?“

Read now via the link in bio

✍️ R.M.B

Applications for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership’s 2026 residential program are now open!Find the ful...
09/02/2026

Applications for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership’s 2026 residential program are now open!

Find the full report via our link in bio.

Corporate leader groups with Coca-Cola. Aviation projects in partnership with Heathrow and private jet companies. Sustai...
27/01/2026

Corporate leader groups with Coca-Cola. Aviation projects in partnership with Heathrow and private jet companies. Sustainability appraisals for factories producing fighter jet parts. A summer school for the multi-generationally wealthy to ‘sustainably’ maintain their family businesses. This investigation looks at CISL’s partnerships - and the material contradictions behind Cambridge’s flagship sustainability institute.

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✍️ TCS Investigations

Access to reproductive care shouldn’t mean enduring avoidable pain, yet too often, ‘tolerance’ is treated as routine. Dr...
26/01/2026

Access to reproductive care shouldn’t mean enduring avoidable pain, yet too often, ‘tolerance’ is treated as routine. Drawing from personal experience and systemic evidence - this piece asks us to imagine a healthcare system that actually respects bodies. That future isn’t optional - it’s essential.

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✍️ Madeleine Whitmore

This year’s most striking piece of student writing wasn’t about tidy endings. Bathwater follows Avi, an artist returning...
25/01/2026

This year’s most striking piece of student writing wasn’t about tidy endings. Bathwater follows Avi, an artist returning home after years of self-imposed exile from his Jewish family, only to find every relationship suspended, unresolved, impossible to bridge.

Still shocked by the November performance, TCS felt compelled to talk to the writers and directors in depth. Sam Asher Misan and co-director Eva Cotton tell us how closure isn’t always possible, and that sometimes, recognition, imagination, and self-made solace are what sustain us.

It’s uncomfortable, poignant, and utterly unforgettable.

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✍️ Parsiah Brandon

Backstage at the latest all-nighter, we spoke to the students keeping Cambridge nightlife interesting. Tracing the grou...
04/01/2026

Backstage at the latest all-nighter, we spoke to the students keeping Cambridge nightlife interesting. Tracing the group’s history and the past music scene, we see how they’ve built events that go beyond the usual Cindies fare - nights defined by better music, killer headliners, and students at the decks.

Slipped disc celebrates its seventh birthday January 31. With Grammy-winning headlining. it’s one night you don’t want to miss.

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✍️ Mila Edensor

In its 75th anniversary year, the European Convention on Human Rights has become a flashpoint in British politics. Kemi ...
02/01/2026

In its 75th anniversary year, the European Convention on Human Rights has become a flashpoint in British politics. Kemi Badenoch has pledged immediate withdrawal, Reform’s Zia Yusuf frames leaving as a route to ‘sovereignty’, and significant factions within Labour continue to advocate for a British bill of rights. Across party lines, the debate is increasingly defined by simplification - a zero-sum account of sovereignty versus international law.

In this interview, Ed Parker speaks to Professor Jessica Greenberg (University of Illinois) about how the ECHR is being turned into a political scapegoat, and why understanding the Court as a complex, evolving social institution matters before any serious judgment about Britain’s future is made.

This interview was a Declarations Podcast - run from Cambridge Centre for Governance and Human Rights: listen via the link in bio!

✍️ Ed Parker

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