Monday 3rd November 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction....

Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

Every morning on my way to college, I pass through the cobblestoned, crowded St...

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

A Perspective on the Isle of Wight

Becky Nye gives us an islander's view into the beauty of the Isle of Wight.

High Society

Alisha Patel reviews the Wellcome Collection's show on mind-altering drugs and art.

Festive generosity

A few belated Christmas gifts..

Here comes the beat, all kitsch and sweet

What can we expect to hear at the royal wedding this coming April?

The Joy of Reading

A literary New Year's resolution

Review: Somewhere

Sophia Coppola’s latest film is worth a watch but does not quite match up to <i>Lost in Translation</i>.

The beauty of winter

Snow can mess up travel plans but we want to bring you the beauty of it as seen through our lenses...

Here Comes The Beat…

Rachel looks ahead to the royal wedding with a little musical dread.

Pay Day for tax dodgers

Jessica Goodman was in London to document a day of action against corporate tax evaders

Giant-Baby and The End of Love

Annabel James previews two new shows at Modern Art Oxford

‘Don’t call me Shirley!’

A tribute to Leslie Nielsen and the spoof film

Santa’s Bookbag

We asked our bookworms what's on their wishlists this Christmas; here's what they told us

Review: The Sound of Music

Cherwell Stage shrugs off its intellectual aspirations for an evening of classic Austrian cheese

Review: Of Gods and Men

A quiet, gripping and urgently relevant masterpiece.

How to fill your Oxford drama vac-uum

A look at what's on in Oxford over Christmas

The Battle of Westminster in pictures

We sent our photoreporters to document the most dramatic day yet in the campaign against higher education reforms

The X3 protests

We sent our photoreporters to document the events of an unusual day in London

Why bother with Godard?

As JLG celebrates his 80th birthday, Cherwell considers the legacy behind the acronym

We Need To Talk About Steve

We wonder about interviews with authors. What are they for, and what should we ask?

Eighth Week!

So it's nearly time for that last essay. Don't forget to keep checking our photos till its really the end.

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