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Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven – David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, hundreds of endnotes, and ran to almost 1,100 pages. Infinite Jest occupied much of that cold February…

The Conversation

Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man

Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Trinity Hall admissions policy has not changed

Letter: The Cambridge college remains committed to widening participation, says its master, Mary Hockaday

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Raspberry Pi faces uncertainty over memory shortages due to AI boom

The Cambridge-based business saw shares slide in early trading as it pointed towards ‘limited visibility’ regarding future trading.

Evening Standard

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, Lee Elliot Major

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

The Guardian - UK

‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

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Unlearning History

Three decades after Massachusetts ended its disastrous experiment with rent control, voters are considering giving the policy another shot.

Reason

‘It’s pretty gnarly’: Behind the scenes at Trial Eights, the battle for selection at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the famous annual race is months of preparation, cold, dark mornings on the freezing water, and an internal battle for selection almost as nerve-wracking as the big day itself, as Flo Clifford finds out

The Independent UK

Cheap online fake accounts make misinformation a ‘thriving underground market’, study finds

A new Cambridge University index exposes the thriving underground market where fake social media account verifications can be purchased for as little as 8 cents, fueling online manipulation and election interference worldwide.

Euronews

Half of people recently arrested by Met police may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Research by Cambridge University and Met calls for better neurodivergence screening for vulnerable people

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Who is the real James Orr? JD Vance’s ‘British sherpa’ and Reform’s ‘posh-bosh’ charmer

It is hard to miss James Orr — with his slicked-back mane of blond hair, booming voice and all the confidence of a Wykehamist and an Oxford Balliol graduate, he could easily play the quintessential stage Englishman in a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie. A hybrid of academic and ideologue,…

Evening Standard

Clive Borrow obituary

Other lives: Amateur Cambridgeshire entertainer who appeared in scores of stage shows, often as a pantomime dame

The Guardian - UK

Sir Terence English: Surgeon who led first UK’s first heart transplant dies aged 93

Sir Terence English completed the first successful human transplant in 1979

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Evening Standard

Surgeon who led UK’s first successful heart transplant operation dies aged 93

Sir Terence English studied mining engineering at university in Johannesburg before deciding to switch to medicine, at Guy’s Hospital in London.

International Business Times UK

Oxford–Cambridge Rail Push Could Send Rents Over £2,100 — and Put 37 Homes on the Chopping Block for £7B Line

The £7 billion East West Rail link between Oxford and Cambridge threatens Bedford's communities, with rental costs soaring beyond £2,100/month and dozens of homes at risk of demolition.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told

Planned route linking Cambourne to Cambridge will go through one of county’s last traditional orchards

The Independent UK

Fed's Cook blasts mortgage fraud allegations against her as 'baseless' in letter to AG Bondi

Lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Monday disputed allegations by a Trump administration official that she committed mortgage fraud, an accusation that President Donald Trump used as a basis for seeking to fire her

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Evening Standard

London leaver: 'our mortgage payments soared after the mini-Budget but our country move knocked £160k off'

A friend sold Hope Hudson and Nick Mather their home in a Cambridgeshire village when the couple started thinking about moving out of the capital

The Independent UK

Train attack hero’s family shares update after horrific stabbing

Samir Zitouni was working onboard the London North Eastern Railway train when the attack happened

The Guardian - UK

New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge

Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature

Evening Standard

New national forest confirmed for Oxford-Cambridge corridor

Government announces the location of the second of three forests promised in Labour manifesto, as part of £1 billion commitment to tree planting.

The Independent UK

Oxford-Cambridge corridor to get new national forest as part of £1 billion investment

It comes as part of a £1 billion investment in tree planting and could create more than 14,000 jobs,

The Independent UK

Covid-19 jab causes fewer problems than the virus itself in youngsters – study

The new study was led by experts at UCL and the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.

The Guardian - UK

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

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