Thursday 4th December 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...

Fashion’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

In times of crisis, fashion is rarely at the forefront of people’s minds. As the world attempts to navigate daily life in the midst...

Restrict, Regulate or Educate? Young People and Online Porn

Mia Sorenti explores the complexities regarding young people and exposure to online pornography. It is likely the majority of us have come into contact with...

Dramatics in Isolation: The Nightly Met Opera Streams Reviewed

On the 13th of March, the Met Opera’s Twitter announced that they would begin a series of ‘nightly live streams’ of beloved operas for anyone with...

A Nation Under Siege

Darius Parvizi-Wayne spent three weeks in lockdown at the end of his five month stay in Italy. Here he recalls the empty streets with a mixture of verse and visuals.

Culture and isolation: the silver linings

I’ve found myself – an English undergraduate – reading for fun again.

Electronic Music: the Sound and the Sceptics

A look back over the history of - and our attitudes towards - electronic music today.

Is the coronavirus killing culture?

Arts and culture, sectors which have already faced significant funding cuts, may have to adapt to a new normal if we are to welcome them back to our stages, screens, and books.

In Conversation: Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds

A chat with Enter Shikari's frontman ahead of the release of their highly-anticipated sixth studio album, 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'

UBI: The Universal Solution?

Intro When researching and writing this article I kept asking myself: why should an Oxford student care about Universal Basic Income (UBI)? After all, my main arguments...

Larry: The Real Bernie Bro

Håvard Yttredal speaks with Larry Sanders, Bernie’s brother, about growing up in Brooklyn’s radical Jewish community, their family, and why he wants Bernie supporters abroad to vote in the Democratic Global Primary.

Cherwell’s Declassified Oxford Clubbing Fashion Guide

A knitted turtleneck and mum jeans.  This is an outfit for running errands; these are items of clothing you grab from your floor on a...

If music be the food of love, prey on

There are two types of Korean faces that generally appear in the Western media. One is thin, chiselled, and attached to a K-pop star;...

Literary Blackface

When the largest book retailer in the United States, Barnes & Noble, launched their so-called Diverse Editions initiative in honour of Black History Month,...

Review: Caging Skies and Jojo Rabbit

When depicting the world and ideology of Nazi-Germany, the theme of childhood or the child-like figure is quite a well-used one. Key examples include...

Review: Kafka’s Dick

When one mentions the play, Kafka’s Dick, needless to say, it raises a few eyebrows (at least in my experience). Though the title has some relevance...

Ignoring the International

Parasite must surely be one of the most remarkable films of this year’s awards season. Director Bong Joon Ho’s anti-capitalist satire and thriller has...

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Review

If you were to ask someone familiar with Quentin Tarantino to name the defining features of his films, they would probably mention the dialogue,...

‘Because I Can’: Remembering Diet Coke’s dystopian rebrand in our 2020 dystopia

‘Coca-Cola found a way to convince millennials to drink Diet Coke’ – Qartz.com. ‘An authentic, self-aware Diet Coke that is really inclusive’ – Danielle Henry,...

Queer Theory

As we go into LGBT+ History Month, many figures throughout history - modern or not - are looked upon and celebrated, and rightly so....

TOP TEN BEST FILMS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

Maybe you are the kind of person who avoids participating in even a card exchange when February 14th rolls around each year in a...

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