Tuesday 2nd 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...

Passive (not aggressive)

Why not shouting makes you a good guy from a cool film, and shouting makes Big Brother contestants (more) moronic

Valentino Couture 2010

Anahit Behrooz examines Valentino's latest couture offering and finds it lacking

Secret diary of a windsurfing instructor

Week 1: Front Loops and Frappés

Something for everyone?

Chris Graham considers whether there is anything a man could love about haute couture.

Our Man in Southern Lebanon

Chris Graham meets the Lebanese military and has lunch with Hezbollah.

Our Man in Beirut, Lebanon

Chris Graham runs apace with life in a battle-scarred city.

Hometown: Dedham, Essex

A cliché of the English rural picturesque?

You think you’re so smart

Mary Franklin argues that BBMing is the new talking, while Theo Merz decidedly sticks with the retro.

A week without make-up

Chloe Treger braves the Oxford Association of Beholders and puts her 'natural' beauty to the test.

Blind date: Where are they now?

Remember that huge emotional investment you made in our couples? Well, now you can see whether it was worth it.

Top Five: Things to do this summer

Because we know you lot can't do anything without our help

Dine Hard: Old Parsonage

Parents coming to town? You could do worse.

Project Bike Theft

The only thing easier than reading Geography at Oxford is stealing a bike.

A Hull of a good band

Matt Perkins talks 'oop North' with Dave Hemmingway of The Beautiful South

From Russia with LOL

Alex du Sautoy gets entangled in the family affair of Merton’s Garden Play... Chekhov style.

Dirty sexy Shakespeare

Oliver Moody watches the slickest of rom-coms and the sickest of revenge tragedies

In praise of the older woman

Madeline Wright finds the erect nipples and obsessive self interest of this 'classic' uninspiring

Does work make you happy?

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' is an intriguing but incomplete exhibition, says Violet Hudson

Interview: Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie talks threesomes, feminism and Major's intellectual shortcomings with Theo Merz

Interview: Givenchy

Agnes Meath Baker discovers it is better to Give-nchy than to recieve

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