Easter Term 2022 | The Cambridge Union

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Easter term seems to me to exist in extremes: long stints in the library and golden, balmy afternoons on Jesus Green, pressured exams contrasted with extravagant may balls, the worst of Cambridge and the best of Cambridge all at once. I hope that this coming term the Union can alleviate the worst of times and be there for you to celebrate the best.

We’ve crafted our term card around these goals.

When it all goes wrong with your studies, find some comfort in that smooth cellar Jazz or lose yourself in the period costumes and set of the Saint Joan production. Come argue over F1 with Christian Horner or share a (20% discounted) pint with the founder of Wetherspoons. Make some dreadful art at Inky Drinks then deny that it is at all connected to you in our Separate the Art from the Artist debate.

As exam seasons gears up, come upstairs to find a new favourite study spot in our beautiful and now resourced library, brush up on your study skills with youtuber Ali Abdaal and take a minute for your wellbeing with Dog Therapy and our Mental Health panel. We’ll be here to celebrate once it’s all over too: with the flagship Garden Party back for the first time in three years.

Our speaker line up has something for everyone, from the editor of The Spectator to a Tony award winning Broadway actor. In the space of two days, you can hear from both a former Home Secretary in Lord Blunkett and a pioneer of drill music in Headie One. Perhaps the conversation I’m most excited to have is with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Welcoming Nazanin here gives us the opportunity to showcase what is so important about our society, and her visit is even more poignant given that we hosted her

husband, Richard, who has campaigned tirelessly for her release from Iran, just last term.

I hope our debates will deliver thought-provoking discussion in and outside the chamber. In response to your feedback, we’ve spent a long-time diversifying who you’ll hear from on a Thursday night. To this end, we’ve also improved our women’s and nonbinary debate workshops, now in the chamber and with mic support, so that far more of our members can feel empowered to speak and to be heard.

Part of the Union’s mission is to be a place in which young people can hear and speak freely about the world in which they live. We look forward to hosting a Ukraine Teach-In, a Thursday night debate concerning whether ‘Russia is a distraction’ from longer-term geopolitical concerns, and welcoming the Ukrainian Ambassador himself.

The Union can be so much more than a debating society and I hope that through the library, the garden and the Orator our members truly feel the Union is somewhere they are always welcome. We’re nothing without our members, and we’re so looking forward to having you back.

There is something quite special about Easter term in Cambridge, and I couldn’t be more honoured to deliver the Union’s programme for this sunny term ahead.

Leti Ryder President, Easter 2022

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President’s Welcome

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Treasurer’s Treats

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Getting Involved

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The Facilities

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Accessibility

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Garden Party

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Saint Joan

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Debates

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Speakers

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Socials

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The Committee

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Term Calendar

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President’s Thanks

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Your Union membership brings with it a whole range of perks, discounts and benefits.

Every term, our Treasurer compiles a list of discounts that can be used by our members across town, and new deals are added all the time. Members will be informed on social media about these.

Fudge Kitchen Lockhouse Escape Room Engravers Guild of London Jack’s Gelato Up and Running Sportswear Alwalton Hall Primo Cycles The Gardenia Heffers Bookshop University Press Bookshop

5 for 4 20% off 20% off 15% off 10% off 10% off 10% off 10% off online price match guarantee 20% off any books

30% off both weekend and Friday, Saturday and Sunday tickets for Strawberries and Creem Festival

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Any student at the University of Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin can become a member of our society today. https://cus.org/join The Union is a membership society, and we want our members to play an active role in what we do. More than anything, we want you to engage in our debates and events - to question, to probe, to intervene, and to those we invite to account. More information can be found below about the conventions for doing this, but also about how you can speak in our emergency debates - the more informal debates that take place

prior to the public debate - and audition to speak in the main event alongside the biggest names in public life. Speaking in debates is one of the most meaningful experiences you can have at our society.

You can also get involved by joining our committees, and we have lots of them! We recruit for Full Committee, Equalities sub-committee, Social Events sub-committee, Invitations committees and Ball committees. Look out on our social media and emails to be notified when. Apply. You won’t regret it.

HOW DEBATE NIGHT WORKS Our debates run every Thursday from 8pm- 9:45pm, with the results announced afterwards in the bar. The debates are meant for members: it was not until 1887, some 72 years after our founding, that guests were invited to participate. We want you to throw yourselves into them.

keep an eye out if you’re keen to speak!

If you’re less interested in making a full speech, there are still other ways to get involved. You can make a ‘point of information’ - brief comments or questions directed at a speaker during their speech, offered by standing up and saying something like ‘on that point’ or There are six speakers in a debate, of ‘on a point of information’. It is worth which usually two are reserved for noting that these are accepted at the students and earned via open audition. discretion of the speaker - so you may Auditions are announced on our social not always get to make your point. media pages weekly, so make sure to 06

You also have the chance to deliver a floor speech. These are given in either proposition, opposition or abstention of the motion, and usually last for one or two minutes.

The Union also holds weekly emergency

debates. These are shorter, student-only debates held half an hour before the main debate starts, and focus on the current issues of the day. We always encourage members to participate, regardless of experience.

COMPETITIVE DEBATING The Union is the central hub for competitive debating in Cambridge.

As European Champions in 2019 and with consistent success at the World Universities Debating Championships, we offer the chance for members to take part in competitions locally, nationally, and internationally. It doesn’t matter if you’ve spent your secondary school years debating or have never debated before. We welcome all levels of experience, with the aim of taking complete novices to becoming some of the best debaters in the world. We offer three different training streams, for beginners, intermediates, and advanced debaters, with our expert coaches giving personalised and specific feedback to help you improve at our weekly sessions at the Union.

We also provide opportunities for debaters to travel internationally; in the past five years, we’ve funded trips to South Africa, Malaysia, India, and beyond. We also organise fun social events for everyone involved in debating. Joining debating as a fresher is a great way to make friends from across Cambridge too. For the more practical-minded and those interested in giving back, we also offer the chance to organise a vast range of international debate competitions. Convening one of our competitions is a hugely rewarding process, as you get to oversee and plan competitions with thousands of participants and gain valuable skills for your CV!

Do join the Cambridge Debating Facebook group and sign up Even if you don’t want to attend to our mailing list (see our @ competitions, our workshops will cambridgedebating Instagram bio). improve your analytical skills, critical thinking, and public speaking. They Any questions? Email the Competitive will aid your late night essay crisis, and Debating officers. Dioni and Sid, at your ability to talk your way through an debating@cus.org. New workshops for unprepared for supervision. beginners will begin next Michaelmas!

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Our Facilities The Union is more than a debating society, and every day use of our building is a great part of your membership. The Library and Fairfax Rhodes rooms upstairs are always open to our members as study space - just sign in at reception, if the room’s aren’t free, there will always be another one assigned for our members!

The chamber is where the vast majority of our events are held, including all our debates and major speaking events.

From this term onwards we also plan to use the chamber as a space for the women and non-binary debating workshops!

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Members are always welcome at the Union, whether that be in the Chamber for an event, in the Library to study, in the Orator for a meal with your parents or in the garden with a cocktail.

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It’s been a real pleasure working as your Access Officer, and I hope the new FAQ accessibility guide (available on Instagram and in hard copy at reception) provides some clarity and answers as to how to make the most of this space. In the run up to Easter the Union has worked holistically to improve access. We’ve awarded Silver Streets and Fry scholarships, put free period products in all the bathrooms and met with members to hear how they think we could improve. If you have any ideas, questions or concerns regarding access at the Union, please feel free to contact me at access@cus.org. I still have so much to learn, and I would love to hear how members feel the Union can become an even better space, and one that they are able to express agency within.

Easter can be a stressful term, and the Union should feel like a space where members can take some time away from their academic work. Multiple events this term will also be open to all (including non-members), as part 10

of our commitment to widening access.

These include a debate - This House Believes Private Schools are a Force For Good, our BME drinks Saturday Sips, the BME sports panel On a Different Playing Field, our Men’s Mental Health Panel and finally, our Accessibility Workshop. I really hope students, members, faculty, and Cambridge residents all feel that they are welcome at these events, and feel comfortable attending them.

There are so many avenues through which to get involved with the Union, from attending workshops to speaking in an emergency debate, all the way to becoming a paper speaker at one of the main debates. I recognise that the Union can represent an intimidating space to speak within, especially if your perspective does not represent that of the majority of members. Yet it is essential that we hear all members’ points of view if the Union is to promote a culture of genuine free speech. If you would like to get involved but are unsure of where or how to start, please reach out to a committee member you feel comfortable talking to. You have a right to be heard, and we will do our absolute best to support you in any way we can.

My equalities team and I are looking to change the narrative surrounding equalities over the Easter term. Our panels will have interesting speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds and we will be hosting events to attract various groups of people. We hope to achieve this with our panel, On a Different Playing Field which will feature distinguished sports personnel from a BME background. Alongside this we will be hosting a Men's Mental Health panel, especially poignant during mental health week, and as we approach exam season.

Have a lovely term and please do get in touch if you have any thoughts or questions, Iona Access Officer

I look forward to the term ahead and I would like to thank my sub-committee for helping me organise what should be fantastic and engaging events. One of our BME Drinks, Saturday Sips, will feature Levi Roots, our Queer After Dark will be a nice spin on our usual Jazz After Dark and also look out for the new Accessibility Map around the Union.

Sincerely, James Appiah Equalities Officer 11

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Poster by Anna Piper-Thompson

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Challenging others’ views and being challenged is what this society is all about and nowhere is this done better than in Debates. This term our attention has turned to some of the greatest questions we face: education, the climate crisis, disobedience, a new Cold War, and the relationship between an artist and their art. We have sought to build a term that does not regressively consider whether there is or was a problem, but rather what should be done.

Whether you are at the end of your first year or your time in Cambridge, there has never been a better term to speak at the Union. Everyone that applies to be one of the main speakers in the debates will get an audition. You can also sign up to take part in emergency debates or just put your hand up and give a speech from the floor.

There are debating workshops for those that want to learn a bit more about it as well.

Remember this is your Union, you do not need any prior experience or be an expert to speak here, all you need to do is turn up.

I am sure you will agree that everyone deserves a break from revision. So give yourself Thursday evening off, get out of the library, and come to the Union to speak and hear on the issues that matter to you. I cannot wait to see you all there!

Christopher George Debates Officer

01 This House Believes Private Schools are a Force for Good 28th 2 0

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Our first debate of term will be on the motion This House Believe Private Schools Are A Force For Good. The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the stark inequalities that persist between the state and private sector education in the UK. As we look towards the future it is time to consider the role of these private schools.

Are they merely ‘engines of privilege’ that replicate social inequalities or can they be a force for good - enabling greater choice, offering specialised services, and acting as potential aid to social mobility?

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Proposition Roshan Ghandi Roshan Ghanid is CEO of City Montessori School in Lucknow, India. It is the largest school in the world with over 58,000 students across 19 campuses. A graduate of Oxford and UCL, he speaks extensively on education and the role technology can play.

Aatif Hassan Aatif Hassan is the Chairman and Founder of the Cavendish Education Group, a grouping of schools that focus on supporting neurodivergent students and those with additional needs. He was recently awarded the Freedom of the City of London for services to education and is also the Chairman of Dukes Education.

Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

Opposition Robert Verkaik Robert Verkaik is the author of “Posh Boys, How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain”. He argues that the educational system has led a privately educated elite to govern Britain and more widely critiques the lack of social mobility. He is also an award winning journalist, writing for The Guardian, The Independent, and The Sunday Times.

Francis Green Francis Green is a Professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL. His work focuses on private schooling, skills and the quality of work, and he has recently published papers on the access to private schools and the impact of lockdowns on school children. In 2019, Professor Green co-authored Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem in which he argues that private schools undermine social mobility, meritocracy and democracy.

Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

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02 This House Believes Only Socialism Can Save Us 5th 2

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It is no longer up for debate whether we face a climate crisis. From COP26 to the Green New Deal, the question is, what do we do? Whatever path is chosen will impact the lives of everybody for generations to come. This debate will focus on these different visions for what is necessary, how to bring it about, and what our future should look like. Given the scale of the challenge, we must consider whether the only solution is a seismic shift in our political economy.

Perhaps we can modify capitalism or perhaps only socialism can save us.

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Proposition Sir David King Sir David King is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge; founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair in the University and chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. He has served as the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change.

In February 2022 he was awarded the David and Betty Hamburg AAAS award for Science Diplomacy.

His Excellency Rafael Oritz His Excellency Rafael Ortiz has served as the Ambassador of Costa Rica to the UK since 2018.

Previously he was President of the Costa Rican Congress and candidate for President. With more than 99% of its energy generated from renewable sources, Costa Rica has led the world in ambitious policies to combat climate change,

Dr Mya Rose Craig Dr Mya-Rose Craig, is a British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmental youth activist, and campaigner for equal rights. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2020.

Mya is the founder of the non-profit organisation Black2Nature, working to make the conservation and environmental sectors ethnically diverse.

Opposition Sir Vince Cable Sir Vince Cable is a former leader of the Liberal Democrats and President of the Cambridge Union. As Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills he oversaw the launch of the first Green Investment Bank. He has also authored multiple books on the financial crisis, emerging economic challenges, and future solutions.

Claire Barnett Claire Barnett is Executive Director of UN Women UK, fighting to make gender equality a reality at every level of society. She has written on the macroeconomic effect of accelerating gender equality, its importance when addressing climate change.

She has also campaigned for the representation of women in the global climate discourse.

Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

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Proposition Sir Robert Buckland The Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland QC is the MP for South Swindon and has served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

He has also been Solicitor General and Minister for Prisons. As a barrister before entering politics, he specialised in criminal law.

Anthony Brown Anthony Brown is the co-founder of Windrush Defenders Legal, advocating to repair the damage done to African and Caribbean communities by systemic injustices and immigration policy. He is also a member of the Home Office’s Windrush Stakeholder Advisory Group and a member of Windrush National Organisation.

Professor Patrick Vernon Professor Patrick Vernon OBE is a social commentator, campaigner, and cultural historian.

He has been at the forefront of campaigns to establish Windrush Day and helping to expose the Windrush Scandal. He has also been extensively involved in tackling health inequalities for Black and racialized communities in Britain and is co-author of 100 Great Black Britons.

Opposition Lord Edward Faulks Lord Faulks is an English barrister and non-affiliated member of the House of Lords. Formerly a Conservative peer, he served as Minister of State for Civil Justice and Legal policy of the UK (2014-2016).

He became the Chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation and led the Independent Review of Administrative Law panel in 2020.

Gina Miller Gina Miller is a businesswoman, activist and leader of the True and Fair Party. She secured historic constitutional victories against the UK Government in the Supreme Court, prohibiting the triggering of Article 50 without parliamentary approval and the prorogation of parliament.

She has also published ‘Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way’.

Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

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03 This House Believes Bad Laws Deserve to Be Broken 12th 2

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In the UK and across the world the last few years have seen approaches and attitudes towards the law change. The pandemic brought unprecedented restrictions upon personal liberties. Governments have pushed to limit freedom of speech and assembly. People have acted as if laws do not apply to them. In light of this, we will discuss whether laws can be bad, who decides if they are, and whether breaking them threatens to undermine society rather than protecting rights.

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Proposition Cindy Yu Cindy Yu is broadcast editor of The Spectator and presenter of the renowned Chinese Whispers podcast. Brought up in Nanjing, she received her masters in Chinese studies from Oxford University. She has written extensively on Chinese politics and its relationship with the wider world.

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Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

Opposition James Nixey James Nixey is Head of the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham House. His principal expertise concerns the relationship between Russia and other post-Soviet states. His writings include “Putin Again: Implications for Russia and the West”. He also worked as an investigative reporter for the Moscow Tribune in the late 1990s.

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Student Speaker This could be you! Please look out for how to audition to speak in this debate in your emails and on social media.

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04 This House Believes Russia is a distraction 19th of May 2 0 : 0 0

Some say we are in a New Cold War; some say it never ended. The Western world order conceived and reaffirmed in the 20th century is increasingly challenged. With its recent aggression now is the time to consider Russia’s place in this changing world.

This debate is the chance to explore what Western priorities should be, whether Russia and China are one-of-the-same, and to raise questions that will define the world for the foreseeable future.

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The Presidential debate (and last of the year!), aptly on Bloomsday - the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses take place, will consider a question both topical and timeless: can you separate the art from the artist? From murder-convicted Caravaggio to the criminals of today who have found much success in the world of tv and film, come along to consider this complex question.

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Proposition Leti Ryder Leti Ryder is the outgoing President of the Cambridge Union. She was once a student of architecture and looks forward to spending the Summer reuniting with her friends, and probably with a lot of overdue work from her degree.

Tai Shani Tai Shani is a British artist and Turner Prize Winner. Shani uses performance, film, photography and sculptural installations to explore forgotten histories and stories. She is currently a Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art. She has created several solo exhibitions and performances at the Tate Modern and the Barbican.

Professor Terry Eagleton Terry Eagleton has been called “Britain’s most influential academic critic”. He has written over 50 books on literary theory, aesthetics, and postmodernism, with his specifically Marxist take informing much of this work. He is currently Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.

Opposition Nicole Hemmer Nicole Hemmer is an American historian and an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project at Columbia University. She specialises in the history of conservative media in the United States. Her research has been cited in multiple news outlets, with articles considering various topics including our ability to appreciate art made by sexual predators.

Dr Daisy Dixon Daisy Dixon is a philosopher of art and artist.

She is currently a research fellow at Peterhouse College. She explores how visual art behaves like speech, and how curators and interpreters can affect what an artwork says and does. Her current project concerns how some art can function as hate speech, and how protest art can form ‘counterspeech’ which disarms the harm of dangerous art.

Professor Derek Matravers Derek Matravers is a Professor at the Open University and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, as well as more broadly on ethics and the philosophy of mind. He is also editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics.

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At the start of each academic year The Union holds a debate on whether it has confidence in the current government. It seems fitting that at the end of the year, with local elections just past, and the fluctuating popularity of the current government that our attention turns to Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition. Have they been an effective opposition, can they win, and are they ready for power?

We are experimenting with an exciting new debating format to encourage greater engagement between speakers and from the audience. There will only be four pre-selected speakers to provide more opportunities for the audience to voice their opinion. These pre-selected speakers will all speak twice to encourage them to address the points raised by others.

This debate is being held in tion with the Labour Club the Conservative Association and the Liberal Association

collabora(CULC), (CUCA), (CULA).

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Women and Non-Binary students being more engaged and involved in debating is important to us at the Union. This term we are having our workshops in the chamber with mics just like our real debates but without the huge audience, empowering more women and non-binary students into our main debates and our emergency debates as well as to speak publicly. In addition, one session will focus on body language skills with an ADC representative.

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It has been my absolute pleasure to organise the speaker line-up for Easter 2022. From the Ukrainian Ambassador to rap-star Headie One, I believe there is something for everyone this term.

The beauty of speaker events at the Union is that it gives us as a community the opportunity to both listen to incredible stories from the likes of Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe, as well as robustly challenge and question guests under the umbrella of free speech. As part of this process, I am committed to opening up speaker-interviews so that discussions can be led by more members, not just Standing Committee. Keep an eye out for opportunities to audition to interview some of our amazing guests this term!

Finally, a huge thanks must go to my speakers invitation committee.

You have been instrumental in producing our speaker line-up and it has been a genuine joy to be part of.

I look forward to seeing lots of you at our events this term!

Oliver Udy Speakers Officer

THE FUTURE OF

Formula One

W Series

26th April, 6pm

With a nail-biting 2021 season and title-decider, alongside the ongoing success of Drive to Survive, the popularity of motorsport and Formula One has never been so high. Join our panel of motorsport experts, and regular faces in the F1 paddock, for a discussion on the future of Formula One and diversity in motorsport. Will Max Verstappen win another world championship? Will we see a female driver lining up on the grid in the next decade? What is the ‘pinnacle of motorsport’ really like?

Will Buxton

is one of the most recognisable faces and voices in modern-day motorsport broadcasting.

A presenter, reporter, analyst and pundit with 20 years of experience, Will became Formula One’s first digital presenter in 2018 and gained greater global attention through his role in the hugely popular Netflix series “Drive to Survive.”

Catherine Bond Muir

founded the world’s first all-female single-seater motor racing championship, W Series. Since its inaugural season in 2019, W Series has created the greatest number of professional female racing drivers of all time. In 2021, W Series entered a new landmark partnership with Formula 1 and supported the world’s premier motor racing series at seven Grand Prix weekends.

Jamie Chadwick,

aged 23, is one of the most famous and successful female racing drivers. She is the two-time W Series Champion and current development driver for Williams F1 team. A British Racing Drivers’ Club ‘Rising Star’, Jamie was the youngest – and first female – driver to win a British GT Championship and then became the first female winner of a BRDC British Formula 3 race and the MR Challenge Championship.

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Fraser Nelson 29th April, 6pm

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raser Nelson is the editor of The Spectator magazine and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Under his editorship, sales of the magazine have doubled in a market down by two-thirds.

He started as a business correspondent for The Times in 1996 and was political editor for The Scotsman before joining The Spectator in 2006 as the magazine’s political editor. Fraser became editor in 2009. His awards include Political Journalist of the Year and the Editors’ Editor of the Year – becoming the only journalist to have simultaneously held the top awards for editing and political writing. Fraser lives in Twickenham with his wife, daughter and two sons.

He also sits of the advisory board of the Centre for Social Justice and the Centre for Policy Studies.

Martin Lewis 4th May, 6pm

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artin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who is founder and Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website – over 8m people receive his weekly email. In 2016 he founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, which he now chairs. In January 2022 Martin was awarded a CBE for his contribution to consumer rights and charity work.

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Ukraine—its history, culture, economy, and politics. This Teach-In addresses this oversight by offering a day of open lectures on Ukraine delivered by faculty members of Cambridge, London, Nottingham, and USA universities. The day will consist of hourly lectures and Q&A sessions. The evening will end with a conversation about the current situation in Ukraine and a final Q&A session. To find a full programme for the day, with details on the speakers, please see our notice board inside the entrance to the building!

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Saturday 30th April, 10am-8pm.

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The event is sponsored by the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies-MMLL, and Cambridge University Ukrainian Society.

Ali Abdaal

The Key to Sustainable Productivity 3rd May, 6pm

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li Abdaal is a YouTuber, entrepreneur, and alumnus of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

In 2017 during his final year of medical school at Cambridge, he started making YouTube videos about productivity, tech, and study tips. Since then he’s built an online following of more than 4 million people, and in 2021 quit his career as an NHS doctor to be a full-time internet creator/entrepreneur, much to his mum’s dismay. He now runs a multi-million pound content-creation business and is currently writing a book themed around meaningful and sustainable Productivity, due to be published by Penguin Random House in 2023.

William Beauchamp How to make £10 million if you only got a 2.1

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illiam Beauchamp taught himself to play poker at 15, before coming to Cambridge to read economics in 2009 he had made over £100,000 doing this.

Beauchamp grew up in an underprivileged family on a council estate. After graduation, William didn’t get into any of the handful of firms he applied to. Instead, he’s built and scaled Seamless Capital from a one-man band in his bedroom to a 15 person algorithmic trading team based in Cambridge making £10 million a year and still growing.

OPEN TO ALL, followed by networking drinks.

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a different playing field.

BME in sports panel open to all

Friday, 6th May.

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This BME Sports Panel aims to showcase the experiences and achievements of some of Britain’s finest athletes and sports personalities from a minority ethnic background. The panel aspires to engage with the journeys of these sports personalities in tackling the racial barriers experienced by many within the sporting world. In light of Azeem Rafiq’s testimony to the Parliamentary Select committee concerning racial abuse and the aftermath of the 2021 Euros final, the panel aims to take on the structural racism present in British sport and the reception to racial abuse from various sporting fan bases.

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Azeem Rafiq is a British Pakistani cricketer, who was captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, the first cricketer of Asian origin to take the role. (He made his senior debut at the age of 17 leading England’s U19s to the World Cup, a side featuring Ben Stokes.) In 2021, he testified to a Parliamentary Select Committee, exposing the racial abuse he was subject to during his time at Yorkshire CCC.

Kriss Akabusi MBE is an Olympian, media personality, motivational speaker and businessman. He rose to fame on the athletics track. He will always be remembered for helping Great Britain clinch gold from the mighty Americans at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.

He has three Olympic medals, as well as World, European and Commonwealth titles, Kriss’s greatest honour is his MBE awarded in 1992.

Lawrence Okolie is a British professional boxer who has held the WBO cruiserweight title since 2021. At regional level, he held the BWritish and European cruiserweight titles separately in 2019.

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17th May 6pm The Chamber

David Blunkett 18th May, 6pm

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avid Blunkett is a British politician, now in the House of Lords, who was MP for the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years until the 2015 general election, when he stood down.

Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield’s most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair’s Cabinet following Labour’s victory in the 1997 general election.

Billy Porter 2nd June, 6pm

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illy Porter is an actor, singer, writer, and director, and a Tony, Grammy, Emmy and NAACP award winner.

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Hon. Ambassador Mr. Vadym Prystaiko

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adym Prystaiko is the current Ambassador of Ukraine. Before being appointed, in July 2020, Mr. Prystaiko took up a number of roles. These include Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO, Minister of Forein Affairs of Ukraine and Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. We are delighted to host the Ambassador for what will be a timely and historic event at the Union.

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he Team Principal and CEO of Red Bull Racing began his motorsport career behind the wheel, working his way up to Formula 3000 before swapping the cockpit for a different driving seat – as the boss of his own team. Horner led Red Bull to its first Drivers’ and Constructors’ double in 2010, taking another three consecutive title doubles from 20112013. Though the team continued to win races, the arrival of hybrid power in F1 in 2014 marked the end of Red Bull Racing’s first period of dominance. However, Horner once again led the team back to championship glory in 2021, with Max Verstappen winning his first Drivers’ crown and the team’s ninth title. Horner now stands as Formula 1’s longest serving Team Principal.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe Sebastian Vettel

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ebastian Vettel is a four time Formula 1 World Champion. He drives for Aston Martin and is the youngest World Champion in Formula 1.

Date TBC The Chamber

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tormy Daniels, is an American adult film star and director. She has won numerous industry awards and is a member of the NightMoves, AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.

She rose to international fame in 2018 after beginning a legal dispute with President Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen over hush money which she was paid to deny she had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. She has recently started ‘Spooky Babies’ a paranormal investigations show.

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e are delighted to host Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a significant event in the Union’s history after hosting her husband, campaigning for her release, in January and seeing her finally being released just this March. Nazanin was taken hostage while on holiday in Iran in April 2016, and held for 6 years across two prison sentences until her release in March 2022. She lives in West Hampstead, North London, with her husband and daughter Gabriella, and works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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15th June 6pm The Chamber

Big Narstie

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ig Narstie is a British MC, author, rapper, singer, songwriter, comedian and television presenter. You might know him from The Big Narstie Show.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster Date TBC

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homas is an English actor, best known as his roles Sam in Love Actually, Simon in Nanny Mcphee, Ferb in Phinneas and Ferb, Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, Newt in the Maze Runner series and most recently, Benny Watts in the The Queen’s Gambit.

Courtney Love Date TBC

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ourtney is California-born singer, songwriter, and actress who rose to prominence after becoming the lead singer of Hole, which she formed in 1989 with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band quickly gained wide acclaim for their debut album Pretty on the Inside, produced by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon.

Courtney’s newly anticipated album is due to be released this spring after a 10 year hiatus, as well as a personal autobiography and a documentary in development.

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Matt Hancock 13th October (Michaelmas) The Chamber

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att is the MP for West Suffolk.

He entered Government in September 2012 and served in a number of ministerial roles under David Cameron. Under Theresa May, Matt was appointed Minister for Digital & Culture in 2016. Since then, he has been Culture Secretary and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The latter was a role which he continued under Boris Johnson until his resignation in June 2021.

Dr. Phil

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hillip Calvin McGraw has become widely known as Dr Phil thanks to his hit American TV programme, Dr Phil. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he no longer practices it.

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Featuring interactive arts exhibitions, locally sourced sustainable food, keynote speeches, a Green Fair and panels on everything from decolonising climate responses to the intersections of Climate Change and the Arts.

Bringing local and international experts, activists, students and professionals together for two days of lively discussion.

For more info follow @ccsf_camhub on instagram or get in touch at ccsflogistics@ cambridgehub.org Discounted tickets for Cambridge Union Members will be on sale soon.

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Intellectual discourse, fascinating speakers, and formal affairs at the Union are incredibly inspiring and fun, but you’d be surprised – the Union can really kick back and come alive with a few drinks on social nights! In all seriousness, we are fortunate to have such spaces as the Cellars and Gardens to put on such a variety of events to complement everything else the Union has to offer.

With the exciting set of events planned, I really hope I’ve been able to offer chances to fully unwind amidst the business of Easter term. Expect the return of Jazz After Dark (a now much-loved Union staple), alongside some interesting twists on music in the Cellars with Hip-Hop After Dark back by popular demand! And a new event in collaboration with the Union’s LGBTQ+ Officer – Queer After Dark, where you can expect the Union Cellars to be transformed into a mini club night to celebrate pride! All this to come, plus new original events – Inky Drinks and BBQ & Booze – are set to make their debut this term.

I hope the events I’ve worked to plan provide genuinely chilled and memorable opportunities to socialise and relax (really worth leaving the library for). I truly hope you can join us for a night or two of fun – I can’t wait to see you around!

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A * JZZ And…we’re back again! Everyone’s favourite evening of Jazz, drinks, and smoky lights! You know the drill – tickets for members and non-members can be found on Eventbrite (keep an eye on the Facebook, tickets sell fast) and drinks available to purchase at the Cellars Bar. 52

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inky drinks 30th April 7-9pm Library Tickets: £5

life drawing

Join us in the Union Library for an unforgettable arty evening with life models and a free glass or two of wine to complement your tipsy creations! Charcoals, pencils, pastels, and paper provided… or bring along your own sketching supplies!

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Springtime: what better time to get outside and unwind? Enjoy an evening of BBQ classics (plus vegan alternatives!), plenty of beer and booze, music and stalls – all to reveal the Union’s Garden Party theme!

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Tickets are limited and sure to sell out fast – be ready for the link on Eventbrite and Facebook!

After Dark.

The Union goes clubbing! Join us in the Union Cellars and see as it’s transformed into a bold, bright, and unforgettable night. Queer After Dark has been a collaborative effort with the Union’s LGBTQ+ Officer, in the run-up to Pride Month join us to celebrate pride (club-style)! Glitter stands, colourful lights, decorations and a DJ with all the songs you can sing every word to! What more could you want?

All ticket holders also get an exclusive ticket link to Wednesday Revs aka Rumboogie (the Queer After Dark Afterparty)!

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Back by popular demand – Hip Hop After Dark. Making its debut last term, we invite you to join us once again in the Union Cellars for a Hip-Hop inspired night! Plenty of drinks, funky lights, and good vibes as always. Watch out for tickets on Facebook – this is a night you won’t want to miss!

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Relax and unwind with us in the library… oh, and there will be therapy dogs to join us too! Who wouldn’t want to spare some time to de-stress with some adorable dogs, seriously? Further details to follow!

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Exclusive Cambridge Union member’s discount for the Cambridge music festivals, the Cambridge Club Festival and Strawberries and Creem.

Our members can receive a 30% discount by using the code CAM30.

At the Cambridge Club Festival (11th and 12th of June) see Diana Ross, Nile Rodgers & Chic, the Jacksons and more.

At Strawberries and Creem (17th, 18th & 19th of June) see Lil Wayne, Mabel and Ghetts.

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Oxford Union

The Oxford Union is our twin at “The Other Place”, and with your Cambridge Union membership card you can visit their amazing facilities and events. For the term ahead, we recommend going down to see Cambridge’s best competitive debaters go head-to-head with Oxford at the Varsity debate.

National Liberal Club

The National Liberal Club is ‘the most inclusive club in London’ and is the perfect place to study or meet friends for dinner. To enter, simply show your Union membership card on the door.

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Standing

Committee

President Leti Ryder Sidney Sussex

Vice-President David Eagleson Trinity

Debates Officer Christopher George Wolfson Equalities Officer James Appiah Pembroke

Treasurer Calvin Hartley Trinity Hall Social Events Officer Gina Holmes Selwyn

Competitive Competitive Debating Officer Debating Officer Dioni Ellinikaki Siddharth Pai Sidney Sussex King’s

Michaelmas President Elect Lara Brown Downing Equalities Officer Elect Ellie Breeze Peterhouse Competitive Debating Officer Elect Isabelle Sim Trinity Hall

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Speakers Officer Oliver Udy Robinson

Elects Debating Officer Elect Sam Carling Christ’s

Speakers Officer Elect Ellenoor Shameli

Homerton Social Events Officer Elect

Edward Hilditch

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Competitive Debating Officer Elect Trevor Chow Trinity

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Secretary

Charlie Palmer

EVENTS

MANAGEMENT

Head of Events Management Deputy Head Deputy Head Laura Georgina Oliver Salvador Elliot Ruby Shibhangi Sam

GUEST Head of Guest Liaisons Georgia Nick Roshan Broderick Lily Veronica-Nicolle Emilia Sarah Grace Khalid

PRESS Head of Press Jonathan Holly

Alix Danis Philip Al-Taiee Sasha Grantham Lock Holmes Mosheim Widdicome Green Power Ghose Stern

LIAISONS Jasper Federman Fern Davis Panesar House McGrail Hera Isaacs Levy Lozinski Guma’a

TEAM Max Ghose Heywood Sheridan

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Head of Online Publicity Head of In-Person Publicity Ilya Juan Diego Leo Hannah

Johan Nerlov Izzy Porter Carey Albin Wang Huang

PHOTOGRAPHY

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Co-Head of Photography Co-Head of Photography

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WELFARE

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Alex Connor

Horan Phillips

AUDIO-VISUAL Head of Audio-Visual James Mark Harrisson

GRAPHIC Isabella Liliana

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Alix Charlie Joseph Laura Oliver Sam Sasha Zoe

Danis Palmer Fennel Lock Mosheim Carling Grantham Olawore

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So much work goes into every term card at the Union, and I am immensely grateful to all those who have helped to make this society a place that I have felt compelled to spend so much time in. Everyone says it but it really does ring true that it is the people who make this place worthwhile and I’m very fortunate to be able to express my thanks to many of them below.

To Keir and James, you have both taught me so much.

From how to organize a term to how to make the world’s worst espresso martini (thanks Keir). Your Michaelmas and your Lent made the Union what it is. Keir you set the bar for a post-covid term, and you set it far too high. James, you make everything better, it’s very annoying. Regardless of your flaws, it’s an honour to be sharing the academic year with your terms and I hope that we continue to be a trio, in one way or another, even if you’re both swapping in my presence for America this summer.

Thank you so much to my lovely Easter team. Oliver, you’ve worked so hard over the last few months and I can’t wait to watch you interview your heroes. I regularly think about how lucky I am to be doing this job with someone who I not only have so much in common with, but someone who is also one of my best friends. Thank you. Christopher George: you are an incredibly trusty pair of hands on committee and a brilliant Debates Officer, curating such a diverse and exciting line-up. I’m so proud, I hope you are too.

James, thank you for caring so much about Equalities here at the Union. Also, thanks for treating us to hear some of your stranger hot takes. I hope you enjoy this term and that despite the increase in workload, you always have time to ‘take calls’. Gina, you were practically part of the team anyway – you sent the most invitations of anyone for our speakers line up – but I’m so glad you joined the Easter team at the last minute. You have so elegantly taken up your new role

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without any time to prepare. I’m truly grateful to you and look forward to seeing you flourish as you run the varied and exciting events this term.

David, its been a pleasure so far and I look forward to a term of problem solving with you. Thank you sincerely for stepping up so dedicatedly; you are a natural and our society is indebted to you. Calvin you are everything a Treasurer should be and more, I think we would all be better off if you never graduated and kept treasurer-ing till your hairs go white.

Dioni and Sid, thank you for all that you do: you make this society what it is. It’s hard to imagine the Union without you, but I have every confidence Isabelle and Trevor will continue your hard work and keep Cambridge Debating lively as ever.

Lara, I’m so looking forward to working closely with you and I hope you already know how fond I am of you; you will be much better than me at this thing.

Keep eating maggots and looking like a child… Sam, Ellenoor, Ellie and Ed, I’m so glad that I get to spend my last term on committee with you all.

Patrick and Mahera, thank you for your contributions over this academic year, you leave with the fondness and gratitude of everyone in our society.

Iona, you are such a star. Your great skill is that you put the Union’s complex accessibility issues into such simple terms. Your thoughtful insights have transformed how I see the Union. You’ve already done so much, from free sanitary products in our toilets to access guides, I can’t wait to see what you do with Easter term.

To the Speakers Committee and Debates Committee: you have been incredible, and it has been so exciting

to work with so many talented people who care about the Union and our events. The future of the Union is yours…

A special thanks to invites superstars Izzy, Shibanghi, Ed, Sal and Lilla, your talents are reflected in the bulk of our speaker events, thank you so much. To our excellent debates committee – I hope you can reap all the benefits of your hard work on some particularly enjoyable Thursday evenings.

Eleanor, Khalid, Phoebe, Rudi, Saqif & Owen, your contributions have breathed life and diversity into this term card, thank you so much for all your ideas, and for working so hard on your respective projects.

Thank you to those who were so kind to spend some extra time at the Union over the holidays: Charlie, you are a massive asset to the Union, I know you will make an excellent Secretary.

Isabella and Liliana - thank you, thank you, thank you. You have designed such a beautiful term card and I feel so fortunate that Easter term has been dipped in the gold of your talents. We should all work on a zine together once this term is over…

driven mad by my regular emails…

Sam, if the Union was a party you would be the heart and soul of it. You have been a great friend from the start and working with the Orator staff is one of my favourite parts of this role. Freddi, Ben, Finn, Theo and, of course, Bea… You might not all still be here but you are the Orator to me.

Thanos, thank you for bringing so much life and fun to AV, the YouTube finally feels like someone is looking out for it, as is reflected by the huge influx of subscribers. Well done. Justyna, thank you for everything - I wish everyone could be as efficient as you. Madiha, Hannah and Kat, you are all such lovely people and I hope you know how much we all appreciate you and enjoy working alongside you.

And so goes another year at the Union: thank you so much to everyone on committee, to all the Union staff, and most of all, to all our members.

All my best, Leti Ryder President, Easter 2022

Tom and Claudia, I’m so excited to see your play, thank you for bringing something a bit different into this house. Ellen, thank you for organising the garden party, I know it’s going to be wonderful.

To John, you are everything our society didn’t know we needed. Thank you for being such a great source of knowledge and support to me. Please never leave. Joe, the more time I spend in the Union the more I realise you know infinitely more about the place than me or anybody else. Thanks for holding it up and not being

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