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...

Hometown: Norwich, Norfolk

In Norwich, no one can hear you scream.

Let’s all steal a bike

Chris Graham finds out the only thing in Oxford easier than reading geography is stealing a bicycle.

Top five: Ways to celebrate finals

We're being a little more creative than Kukui/Park End/Bridge/Wahoo.

Cherwell: Join Us

Have you got what it takes? 99.99% need not apply.

Oxford Summer VIIIs

It would take more than rain to call off Summer VIIIs. Proof:

Finally! When exams finish…

Did it all kick off at the English trashings? We find out to a generic rock soundtrack.

A summer of literary love

From boho cool to country house calm, Violet Hudson rounds up this summer’s best literary festivals

LOL? I nearly ROFLed

Exploring the oft neglected world of Oxford comedy

Has Clive Got News For You

Benjamin Kirby sees self-deprecation behind the dry wit of one of Britain’s greatest comics.

Hometown: Cambridge

It was inevitable that the 'other' university would get a look in soon.

The few and the Ger-many

Matthew Alagiah investigates the relatively recent phenomenon of ‘Hausprojekte’, the communal living spaces which have become a real feature of the cityscape.

An afternoon in the altogether

A trip to Cambridge, a trip to a life drawing class, a small amount of casual nudity

Top Five: First date blunders

As if Cherwell didn't do enough for the socially impaired...

Dine Hard: Arbat

A rather overpriced and calorific experience.

Blind Date: Week 6

You know how it works... and it seems like this time, it actually worked.

The Alternotive Perspective

Singing, speaking, but mainly thrusting from the mixed acapella group 'The Alternotives'

How to do sub-fusc in style

Cherwell asks Hadley: Can you ever sex up sub-fusc?

Creaming Spires

Arguing the women's right to do the dirty with whoever she wants (but also probably calling her a slag)

That’s just fantastic

Chris Graham talks quality not quantity with the editors of Fantastic Man and The Gentlewoman

The good, the Bad Lieutenant, and the ugly

Ben Kirby gives Cherwell the lowdown on his rudimentary rules for riveting remakes

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