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Too close for comfort?

[Robyn Drury]
Oh, to be a celebrity; to inhabit that murky world of fame, flashbulbs and freebies. Who could possibly resist? Who, after all, wouldn’t want their marital strife solemnly dissected in the weekly glossies, or their bins rifled through by packs of paparazzi? For decades this has been the domain of the “celeb” – the […]

A plea for silence

[Alexandra Piletska]
Student life here has always been a bit loud, but not in an exciting Brighton-kind of loud: Cambridge is not a party city and shouldn’t try to be. Rather, it is home to a more irritating sort of loud, where doors are slammed early in the morning and tasteless music is played at all […]

Why don’t we vote? And why does it matter?

[Rich Saunders]
Every day we are bombarded with reports of the next big threat to our peaceful, civilized lives. It seems there is an unofficial competition to find the “biggest threat” to our society. Simply look in the papers and you will find that these range from international terrorism and climate change to more obscure or […]

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