Sunday 16th November 2025

Lifestyle

Girlhood will not save you

I spent a good deal of time last summer trying to work out why bows made me so irrationally angry. Twice, walking while on the phone to my mum,...

Grieving in Oxford: Tips from a bereaved student

Grief touches all of us, and yet none of us in quite the same...

Hyperactive brain, hypoactive thyroid

Many Oxford narratives have been told time and again, but the story of the...

Grilling the Parsonage: Oxford’s ‘best’ restaurant?

Sometimes you want more than just a meal, to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary,...

Be my Valentine?… No thanks.

Matt Jones and Imogen Beecroft think that there are two sides to this love story

Take a walk on the wild side

Helen Pye talks to childhood crush and animal expert Nick Baker about science on television

And who said pidgery was dead?

Cecilia Stinton looks at whether you'll be pidging your love a card for the big day

Slim when you’re winning

Helen Pye hears how skating and slimming have transformed the life of fitness mogul Rosemary Conley

How Facebook stole my life

Siobhan Morgan tells the true story of one woman's determination to fight her addictions

Ten Things to Do in 2012

Xin Fan offers us some advice before the Mayan apocalypse takes place at the end of the year

Start as You Mean to Go Wrong

Having survived the NYE hangover, Cherwell Lifestyle vows that 2012 will be different with four separate resolutions

The Closest Thing to Magic

Grace Goddard chats pop and politics with radio DJ and TV presenter Lauren Laverne

New Years Eve – a night to remember?

Viccy Ibbett presents a variety of stories about welcoming in the new year, some which end with more success than others...

Surviving the ‘Crimbo Limbo’

Vickie Morrish gives a guide to making it through the Christmas period with your sanity intact

Travels in China

Harry Scholes shares some memories from the final third of his 9,000 mile journey to Hong Kong - by land

A student guide to Christmas shopping

Cherwell Lifestyle offer their advice to cash-strapped students who have left their present buying to the last minute

The big question: are you in or out?

Grace Goddard muses on the ins and outs of college highs and lows and housing woes

Walking in an indie wonderland

Francesca Wade talks Christmas with Andy Burrows of Razorlight and We Are Scientists fame

Fifth week in Oxford: blue or false?

Claire Castles reflects on the myths and realities of the mid term misery that we all love to hate

Shivering our timbers

Agnes Arnold-Forster and Beth McKernan swoon in the presence of everyone's favourite pirate

Forever young, I wanna be forever young

Helen Pye discusses the ethics and intricacies of eternal life with hirsute scientist Aubrey de Grey

Giraffe George Street: Review

Cherwell's editors spend yet more time together, eat too much and sample the delights Giraffe have to offer

Charity begins on the phone

Chloe Cornish gets chatty to charities and wonders where her donations are going.

Who needs a degree?

Libby Derbyshire tells us how it’s really best to utilise our time at university, by simultaneously climbing the social and career ladders

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