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...

The real Big Issue

Nic Turner gets more perspective than he bargained for when talking to Big Issue sellers around Oxford

Dine Hard: Atomic Burger

Out of this world? Er... yes, actually.

Girls gone solo

Emily Hawes looks at whether, for female travellers, strength can only ever be found in numbers.

Top Five: Hangover cures

Uh-oh, done it again? Let us give you a helping hand...

Stuff You’ve Wondered About, But Never Bothered to Ask

Eyjafjallajökull (a.k.a. "That Iceland Volcano"): Geology, Technology, and the Future of Humanity

The General Election

The final twenty-four hours of the election campaign from a student perspective.

Here’s What You’ve Missed: TTW1!

Celebrity psychic Sally Morgan & 'The Odyssey' at The Playhouse.

Deep in the Vatican vaults

Celeste Owen-Jones finds herself in the middle of the Papal scandals

Hometown: Hexham, Northumberland

A place where most men are willing to buy any girl a pizza in exchange for a mobile number

The secret life of an organ scholar

Olivia Hanson talks sex, lies and Bachian counterpoint as she delves into Oxford's murky musical underworld.

Top Five: Summer accessories for men

The sun is (nearly) out, but what do you need to make the most of it?

Dine Hard: Combibos Coffee

The smell of freshly ground coffee in the most unscenic of places

May Morning in Two Minutes

Morris Dancing, River Jumping and Drunken Shenanigans

The OFW Blog: The Forum

Fashion gets its smarts in this year's forum...

Luke & Jack Fill Your Ears with Films

A new series begins by reviewing 'Up In The Air' starring George Clooney, and checking in on Uma Therman, Jennifer Aniston, and Gemma Arterton.

The OFW Blog: The Style Show

Our extensive coverage of the week's events, beginning with The Style Show...

My big fat Oxford week

A week in the life of a fashionista

Is ‘comedy’ an error?

Naomi Richman wonders whether Shakesperean humour still grabs us by the Globes

My Hometown: Wadhurst, Sussex

Wadhurst: it really has got it.

Sex, drugs and semantics

Josh Lowe looks at the erosion of musical genre and its impact on the way we talk about music.

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