Saturday 31st January 2026

Lifestyle

The dating bio’s obsession with Oxford

As Michaelmas drew to a close, a dramatic conversation about Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, finding his partner on a dating app prompted my friend and I to try a dating app for the first time in the UK.
Lifestyle Manya Singh -

A love letter to authenticity

Mirrors often occupy an uneasy place within the collective consciousness. A reflected replica of this world, not quite false, but not entirely real either.
Lifestyle Abigail Christie -

Not on the tour: An unconventional journey through Oxford

All tours are fundamentally flawed. Though they might be detailed and student-focused, they are utterly incapable of expressing what it is like to love Oxford.
Lifestyle Elouise Wills -

In defence of the default order: The Alternative Tuck Shop

There is no place in Oxford that my muscle memory takes me to more reliably than the Alternative Tuck Shop. This happens regardless of my state – still half-asleep, perhaps slightly hungover, or already late for class.
Lifestyle Luis Prenninger -
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Corridor Creeper

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on those awkward in-college walks of shame

Interview: Raymond Blanc

Laura French talks to Raymond Blanc about food, the French, the future, and...fish fingers

Give me horse meat any day

Nastassia Dhanraj looks at some of the weirder cuisine the world has to offer

Be my bloody Valentine

Oxford's own Bridget Jones bags herself a V-Day date on Take Me Out

Middle-Aged-Man-Band?

Harriet Smith Hughes chats with Police Dog Hogan about juggling professional careers and urban bluegrass

Making a Break for it

Rachel Massey and Hannah Grosskopf talk about their experiences of RAG's Jailbreak

Vive la Grève! A Year Abroad Perspective

Gruffudd Owen experiences his first strike in France, and he's definitely not complaining

"Middle Class Food Column": Going Against the Grain

Katie Ebner-Landy and Lewis Evans look into how to make carb-consuming just that bit more fun

Fifty Shades of Cosmo

Ophelia Balls takes Cosmo's sex advice at face value, from the sublime to the ridiculous

A birthday stripped bare

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on her best birthday surprise yet...

"Middle Class Food Column": Houmous Wars

Katie Ebner-Landy attempts to explain some of the oldest and deepest-rooted hatreds in the world through the medium of houmous

Join the (singles) club!

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on the life of the singleton

A Big Night Out

Tom Goulding talks to Clive Martin, one of Vice's hottest upcoming names

The man with the golden camera

Tim Ellis talks to Alex Thomson, Cherwell alumnus and Channel 4's chief news correspondent

A long-standing, silent struggle

An Oxford undergraduate talks to Cherwell about battling with depression at University.

Confessions of a dryathlete

John Owen talks about life without drinking in a bid to raise money for Cancer Research.

Make Love Not Porn

Eleanor Bley Griffiths talks hardcore porn, younger men and self-promotion with Cindy Gallop

The Bridget Jones of Oxford: The Elusive Zen

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on the sweat, blood and tears that is Bikram Yoga

Interview: Sophie Hulme

Imogen Beecroft talks to Sophie Hulme, a young designer causing quite a stir

Three’s not a crowd

Max McGenity meets Ian Mucklejohn, the first single man in the UK to have surrogate children.
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