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Suchir Salhan

Computer Science PhD, Cambridge University & Journalist Suchir Salhan is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Cambridge University (Gonville & Caius College), focusing on Natural Language Processing and Machine …

Alex Jacob

English and Business Graduate. Bylines in The Times, Varsity Newspaper, The Cambridge Student and The Reviews Hub.

Rhian Williams

Juliette Bretan

Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Cambridge.In her freelance work, she has written regularly for Notes from Poland and Culture.pl, and been published in …

Molly Moss

Pembroke College Cambridge English graduate, freelancer living in North London.

Peter Iltchev

Technical and editorial content writer for SaaS tech companies (Spotify, Circle)Independent writing hosted on Medium and the Hopeless Wonderer blogPrevious work featured in: Spotify Community, The Culture Trip, The Cambridge …

Latest Articles

Cambridge could drop Barclays for a Greener Bank — The Cambridge Student

Recent, messaging from Barclays has thus emphasised this new focus in their hiring. One spokesperson told The Guardian that, “Barclays has made a significant number of sustainability hires in many teams, reflecting our commitment to work with customers and clients as they transition to a low-carbon business model.” Others have …

By Suchir Salhan
20th January 2024 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Our Culture Co-Editors, Matilda Sidel and Tommy Gilhooly, introduce their latest articles on headphones and the Kings Road. Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio-Visual Editor, talks to Tilda Butterworth about her disrupted year abroad.

By Madeleine Anderson
7th December 2023 • The Cambridge Student

Cambridge’s Youngest Black Professor Speaks on Institutional Racism and Legacies of Slavery — The Cambridge Student

The content of the article has been revised, after discussion with Jason Arday. A variety of incredibly complex issues that are open to being misinterpreted were addressed during the interview. This article has been amended based on language use and tone in a move to avoid such misinterpretations unintentionally made …

By Suchir Salhan
1st December 2023 • The Cambridge Student

TCS News Update: Polish Pro-European Government Delayed from taking Office —

Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, swore in a right-wing government led by PM Mateusz Morawiecki this week (27/11) and a cabinet of of mostly new ministers in what opposition parties have declared as a “farce” intended to delay them from taking power, after they won a majority in October’s elections. Duda, …

By Suchir Salhan
29th November 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

TCS Podcaster Lara Zand speaks to Kasia Pendlebury about funding a year abroad following Brexit. TCS Culture Co-Editor Matilda Sidel reads from her now published series, linking chivalric romance with her favourite music of the 1980s.

By Madeleine Anderson
31st March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio Visual Editor, speaks to Professor Sian Lazar about her experience of striking. Professor Lazar’s book ‘How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour’ is available now, and can be purchased here.

By Madeleine Anderson
28th March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Our columnist Ralph Jeffreys shares his latest article on the importance of community. Lara And, TCS Podcaster, talks to Sofia Johanson about her disrupted year abroad.

By Madeleine Anderson
25th March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

Unfair Data Handling in University Harassment Reporting Procedure — The Cambridge Student

This article contains discussion of sexual harassment. Over the past year we’ve been investigating OSCCA (the Office of Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals), the university-wide body to which reports of sexual harassment are made. Rather than a legal procedure OSCCA is a body formed of university employees who decide whether …

By Katie Wright
21st February 2023 • The Cambridge Student

We Must Protect our Libraries: They are Symbols of Equality and Freedom

I still remember the first time I borrowed from my local public library. It was a summer during primary school, the kind of summer which never seems to end; when the (vaguely) sunny days melt one into another but September never feels any closer. A trip into our nearest town …

By Emma Turner
20th October 2019 • The Cambridge Student

Review: She Loves Me

A story of two unlikely romantics, desperate for love but unable to see the possibility of it right in front of them, She Loves Me is a charming waltz through a 1930s Budapest parfumerie, where romance and comedy join hands to bring Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack together at the …

By Charissa Cheong
6th February 2019 • The Cambridge Student

The Rwandan Genocide, Brandon Stanton, and why ‘Humans of New York’ is one of the most important pages on social media right now

‘Do you ever read something and have a very clear vision that there’s so much of life about which you know nothing? Are you ever just smacked in the face with your own ignorance and naivete?’ It’s 8:20pm on April 6, 1994. An aeroplane carrying the President of Rwanda is …

By Alex Jacob
28th November 2018 • The Cambridge Student

A celebration of voices: Holocaust survivor, Eva Clarke, visits John's

Dressed in a well-fitted monochrome blazer and skirt, with shards of red nails and lips, and an immaculate billow of cotton white hair, you would be forgiven for thinking Eva Clarke is your typical stylish grandmother. And she is – though she was also born on 29th April 1945 in …

By Juliette Bretan
28th January 2018 • The Cambridge Student

Dustin Lance Black on the potency of authentic storytelling

These words continue to resonate long after the interview has come to and end. Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, is confident that we’re living in a time where storytelling is one of the most potent skills in changing culture. Stories pull at our heartstrings, and if you …

By Molly Moss
15th November 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Caitlyn Jenner on politics, coming out and the Kardashians

‘When did you know you were a girl?’ Silence fell as Caitlyn Jenner posed this question to the audience. ‘That’s what a trans person goes through 24 hours a day, 365 days a year’, she adds. ‘That’s what goes through their heads, trying to understand who they are.’ I listen …

By Molly Moss
13th November 2017 • The Cambridge Student

The political situation in Poland is now at a critical level

Late in the afternoon of 29th October, a man identified only as Piotr S. passed away in a central hospital in Warsaw, Poland, after being in a serious condition for 10 days as a result of suffering 60% burns over his body. The 54 year old’s health had deteriorated fast …

By Juliette Bretan
30th October 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Clare Summerskill: Unearthing the voices of LGBT asylum seekers in Rights of Passage

Cambridge theatre is staging Rights of Passage from the 17th October in Corpus Playroom, a play uncovering the voices of LGBT asylum seekers with a script based solely on interviews. I listen to the author Clare Summerskill, also LGBT activist, comedian and PhD student researching the role of the contributor …

By Molly Moss
16th October 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Emma Thompson: "He rode his bike into my bedroom"

Emma Thompson took the time to speak to TCS during her visit to Cambridge, talking about her admirers, her writing process, and her opinions on ageism in the film industry. As a Cambridge alumna herself, Thompson spoke both at her old College, Newnham, and then at the Cambridge Union, before …

By Molly Moss
29th June 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Students of Cambridge on the general election

“The endless cuts made by the Conservative government can't go on” I'll be voting for Labour in the election. There are two reasons for this: first, I think Daniel Zeichner has been a great MP for Cambridge and has not ignored local issues in his campaign in favour of spouting …

By Molly Moss
8th June 2017 • The Cambridge Student

"What are they protesting about. Me? A mum of three kids?”: Katie Hopkins on standing by her views

Meeting Katie Hopkins, the self-proclaimed “biggest bitch in Britain”, I sit down expecting a dog with a bite. What I get instead is an overly-energetic puppy. I can't count the number of times she showers the room with 'darlings' and smiles. Does she really believe the hot air that comes …

By Molly Moss
11th May 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Violinist and conductor Stephanie Childress talks to TCS

You don’t forget a Stephanie Childress performance. On stage she is calm and collected, and hours of technical practice translate into effortlessness. I meet her in the slightly cramped downstairs Costa in Cambridge, and I’m shocked she seems nervous. ‘I better think about what I’m saying’, she tells me. Childress …

By Molly Moss
23rd February 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Ivanka Trump is trapping us in a distorted feminism

US election results sparked a burning question: why did 53% of white women vote for a man who who is turning his back on their rights? Post-election, my Facebook flooded with posts giving solidarity to those shocked (but not surprised) by Trump’s election. No-one could actually believe it. Trump has …

By Molly Moss
20th January 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Plant based eating: Not just for January

Veganuary may be coming to an end, but this doesn’t mean plant-based eating has to. Even if you don’t want to go all out and become a vegetarian or vegan, you could still decide to eat less meat by making plant-based meals that are filling, protein-packed and super satisfying. Even …

By Rhian Williams
30th January 2016 • The Cambridge Student

Escape, Issue 8, Michaelmas Term 2014

I was a section editor for one of Cambridge's weekly student publications, covering travel and culture in print and online. I profiled five student travel bloggers, each of whom had spent time in a different country.

By Peter Iltchev
27th November 2014 • The Cambridge Student