Saturday 29th November 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford – Joe Osei

Joe Osei, budding stylist and general fashion icon, shares his style secrets and where he’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s current fashion inspiration is Joe Osei, a third-year PPE student at...

Brown boots, black boots, and the politics of autumn style

Autumn always brings a question of existential importance: brown boots or black boots? It’s...

“You’re going to make mistakes”: Katie Robinson on fashion and sustainability

Katie Robinson is a sustainable fashion journalist, content creator, and campaigner, with experience working...

Alternative Oxford: The changing stereotypes surrounding body modifications

Cienna Jennings visits Oxford’s renowned tattoo and piercings studio, Tigerlily, to speak with the...

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.

Hi, I’m a human

Not pleasing everyone is a failure I will embrace.

A load of balls

Sheena Sodha goes backstage to take a look at what it takes to make each and every ball a success.

Beyond the void

Kate Shouesmith talks to Simon Yates about ordeal, recklessness and inspiration.

The jackboot look is IN!

Here’s my idea. Tomorrow we form a party, and campaign to legalise all child porn.

Interview: Stephen Poliakoff

Isabel Sutton tries her best to ask TV’s revered playwright some tough questions.

Piece of cake

Chris Baraniuk explores the magic of the Covered Market's Cake Shop.

Beware the surfer stasi

Internet culture is facing a huge threat, says Ben Williams.

A castle in the air

Roberta Klimt feels the enduring appeal of the fairy-tale.  

Happily Ever After…

Dig out your fairy tales and dressing up boxes and let your imagination run wild with silks, sequins and props fit for a princess to make your loveliest dreams come true.

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