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Stormzy to receive honorary Cambridge University doctorate

Rapper is honoured for his philanthropic work alongside the likes of John Rutter, Angela Davis and Simon Russell Beale

The rapper, 31, has initiated various schemes across sport and the arts outside his chart-topping music career, such as founding his Merky Books imprint which champions Black British authors, and buying out the football team AFC Croydon Athletic with the intention of turning it into a “community asset”. Other honourees are the American professor Angela Davis, actor Simon Russell Beale, former supreme court justice Mary Arden, Nobel prize-winning economist Oliver Hart, biologist Maria Leptin and Olympic gold medal-winning rower Katherine Grainger, who is chair of UK Sport and chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Stormzy has been a vocal supporter of Palestine, but McDonald’s is the target of a global boycott over its activity in Israel: the country’s former franchise owner, Alonyal, gave free food to Israeli soldiers in October 2023.

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