Sunday 8th June 2025

Lifestyle

Wake of the Locks: Baldness, and mourning my hair

Ben O'Brien humorously reflects on his experience of having male pattern baldness at a young age
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No sight of a finish line for the cult followers of running

It's hard not to notice the exponential growth of running as a hobby in recent years. It's similarly taken Oxford's student population by storm – Agastya Rao discusses his passion for the sport.
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Okay, diva! How this kaleidoscopic epithet has evolved

Elizabeth Hamilton on the multivalence of the term "diva"
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Notes from an ex-tortoise officer

Beatrix Arnold recalls past concerns for the racers’ welfare
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Oxford’s 2013: the year in videos

This year has seen protests, firings, victories and defeats - Cherwell looks back over the biggest events of 2013

Review: Great British Bake Off Christmas Special

Eliza Plowden finds this baking master-class a festive treat

Oxford does Christmas: five of the best

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Tinder: The busy student’s dating solution?

Shallow or effective? After a term's use of the new dating app, Eleanor Bley Griffiths gives us her verdict.

Varsity Review

An Oxbridge 'Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents'? One Varsity-goer reports from snow-capped Tignes

The other side of interviews

Liz English discusses meeting potential students, running semi-naked through college, and being mistaken for a tutor

Absence makes the heart (or rather, stomach) grow fonder

Tom Wood lists his Oxford Top 5 of places to eat, drink and be merry this Christmas

It’s that time of year again!

The Lifestyle Team share some funny anecdotes about their experiences of Oxford interviews

The sex appeal of quizzing by Brasenose’s Ben Ralph

What happens when you get voted fifth sexiest University Challenge contestant of all time

Freddy the Fresher: Part Five

Freddy's idyllic sexual paradise is about to be shattered...

Freddy the Fresher: Part Four

Freddy finally plucks up the courage to ask out Bernadette: but will it all go to plan?

Bassam’s road to Brighton Peer

Tim Ellis talks to Lord Bassam about Lords reform, Twitter and squatting

Creaming Spires

This week's instalment of Creaming Spires sees the loss of virginity

Freddy the Fresher: Part Three

Freddy has an awkward run in at the Alternative Tuck Shop...

The Oxford Commute

The Dos and Don'ts of commuting into Oxford

Freddy the Fresher: Part Two

Our hapless hero discovers that life in the SSL can be rather exciting...

Freddy the Fresher: Part One

Cherwell introduces its weekly column, following the fortunes of one hapless fresher...

Cocktails With Cai: Espresso Martini

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Review: Itsu

Anna Leszkiewicz and NIck Hilton do the Californian roll

Who wants to be an Entrepreneur?

Sybil Devlin meets Matthew Stafford and Matt Clifford to talk Entrepreneurship
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