Saturday 11th October 2025

Lifestyle

The incandescent and the immovable

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory. The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes rising like ancient lungs out...

“Have you heard the new Laufey album?”

We all know the type, or at least the meme. The tote-bag sporting, wired-headphone...

The maddening art of procrastination

In delaying and avoiding writing this piece, I am succumbing to exactly what many...

To read or not to read?

It’s 5pm and I’m standing on a packed, unmoving train, somewhere between Swindon and...

SnapShot: Techno where you’d least expect it

Matt Roller has an overwhelming night in a quieter corner of Oxford

Blind Date: “I was on a date with one of the roguest guys in Oxford”

Nicky Halterman and Lucy Frost hit it off over dogs, but eccentric hobbies prove a sticking point.

SnapShot: Crewdate

Emma Leech revels in journalistic gaiety as Cherwell meets The Other Place

Landlords, neighbours, and noise complaints

Aidan Balfe’s reflections on a year of living out in Cowley, and the communal living myth

College Insider at St Anne’s

Our insider pens a desperate plea to the outside world from the cold, dark periphery of Oxford University

College Insider at Keble

Our insider on unorthodox architecture, and a brick

Snapshot: Brasenose Ball

Esmé Ash relives a night of sugar highs and The Jackson 5

Life Divided: Punting

Jamie Onslow and Anna Elliot meander off in different directions over punting

Diamond-studded skies and carriages at 5am

Susannah Goldsbrough eulogises on the wonder of balls

College Insider: Christ Church

Our insider on rowdy bops and Barbour jacket syndrome

Blind Date: “It soon became apparent that we were quite different people”

George Dickinson and Laura Savage bond over politics, yoga, and disappointing ale

Friends with Benefit

Eimer McAuley and Jonny Adams discuss the transformative power of makeup

Losing our memories and our selves

Carolina Earle explores the impact of dementia and the importance of our memories on our selves

SnapShot: Boat Race afterparty

Matt Roller suffers through the afterparty at Embargo

A beginner’s guide to the all-night essay crisis

Eimer McAuley mentors us through the cold and dark hours of hitting the word count

Life Divided: Croquet

Akshay Bilolikar and Esme Ash weigh up the pros and cons of croquet, from all angles

College Insider – Worcester

Everywhere you turn in Worcester, you see Chanel. And no, I’m not talking about thousand pound skirt suits, but the Provost’s West Highland Terrier. It’s...

Life Divided: Unpacking

Rosa Thomas and Jamie Onslow reluctantly consider the pains and gains of unpacking

Blind Date: The only way to cope with these inadequacies was to drink more”

Priya Khaira-Hanks and Jamie Horton swap gossip and guilty pleasures over a drink at Turf Tavern

My town and my gown: from the Dreaming Spires to semi-rural obscurity

Maxim Parr-Reid laments the parochial mediocrity of a vacation spent in rural Buckinghamshire.

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