Saturday 6th June 2026

Culture

Colour and codification: Eleanor Medhurst on queer fashion

"There’s a lot of symbolism within queer fashion: ways to speak with our appearance when it hasn’t always been safe or possible to share our identities out loud."

Glamour and gossip: Oxford Fashion Society’s ‘Women in Fashion’

Is there hope for young journalists in the midst of an unemployment crisis, funding cuts to arts-based degrees, and the unknowns of AI? Yes, Julia and Daisy think, but it is by far the hardest time to be a new fashion journalist.

Galliano for the masses (on the Zara sale rack)

The fashion world is mourning the loss of John Galliano. Not a literal death, but something closer to a fall from grace.

Greening the Met Gala through Oxford fashion

With Anna Wintour trotting around New York and cosying up with Lauren Sanchez Bezos,...

Be in a BBC TV programme this Wednesday

In Oxford on Wednesday? Come along to the Union and be part of a new BBC TV series...

Review: ‘The Family’

We take a look at Channel 4's unusual new documentary.

Oxford – social parasites welcome?

As Oxford prepares to consider applicants' postcodes, we ask if Oxford will ever be able to change its image.

Summer Podcast: Sheldonian Restoration

We spoke to the people involved in the four-year conservation of the Sheldonian's magnificent painted ceiling.

Summer Podcast: George McGavin

We talk to one of the presenters of 'Lost Land of the Jaguar' - an exciting new BBC TV series.

‘Violence and Destitution’ at Campsfield House

Cherwell examines claims of violence at Oxford's local detention centre.

Interview: Fiona Bruce

The BBC journalist talks reality TV, Antiques Roadshow and returning to Oxford

07-08 Arts Roundup

Chris Baraniuk on the highlights of the Oxford music, drama and cinema scenes

Oxfordmania!

The inescapable eccentricities of Oxford life explored in words and pictures.

Said donation protests

Oxford University have just decided to accept a second donation from Syrian arms dealer Wafic Said, prompting protests at the Said Business School

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

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