Saturday, February 22, 2025

Culture

5 top tips to stay toasty and trendy this winter

As frosty winter winds swept through Oxford at the start of term, you would imagine that we’d spot more students nestling their necks into fluffy scarves and fending off...

Doubts on Banksy

What is so enticing – and infuriating – about this mystery man’s slapdash approach to political commentary?

Medieval Revival… Again?

From Chappell Roan and Zendaya’s Joan of Arc red carpet chic to Dior’s Cruise...

How the latest bag trend is all about you (or not)

A bag, Birkinified: clad in charms, keychains and ribbons, a young woman flaunts her...

Desert Island Dons

What would your dons get up to stranded on a desert island?

In praise of Desengaño

Jeremy Cliffe discusses the value of cynicism

Interview: Claire Wilcox

Louise Collins talks to the V&A’s Senior Fashion Curator

If you tolerate this

Guy Pewsey investigates the rise and fall of the child star

Summer skin

This season’s swimwear is made for gladitorial glamour and beach combat. Metallics and monochrome in hard lines and cool fabrics make for perfect pool side posing

Peter Bowden

If they’d switched it for a donkey’s scrotum, I’d still have believed it

VIDEO: Oxford’s gay scene

Inclusive or cliquey? Max Thompson, Alix Robertson and Rachel Fraser look at Oxford's LGBT scene.

Shorts in the North

The surprises of Russia

Interview: Michael Palin

Oskar Cox-Jensen meets the weary traveller

Modern art is rubbish

When I grow up I'm going to be a rich art dealer

Fashion aid

Forget the disposable dregs of Primark and instead recycle the gladrag gems of Sobell House Hospice, Marie Curie and British Red Cross

Volunteer value

Anne Irfan takes a look at the worth of the increasingly ‘fashionable’ cult of student charity work abroad

Interview: John Barrowman

Freyja Cox Jensen talks to the arrogant yet very fit star of Torchwood

I love charity

If a Big Issue looks good I’ll download it

When art meets advertising

Michael Bennett crosses the boundary between art and advertising.

Living on the edge of a paper model

Bored of revision? Try origami.

All that glitters

The ball season has arrived, the nights are alive with music and

Crease and quiet

Bored with revision? Turn your textbooks into butterflies.

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