Monday 24th November 2025

Lifestyle

Demystifying PMDD: The missing conversation

Women’s health is a curious thing. It’s not unusual to come home from a GP appointment with an unshakeable sense of disappointment, and often more questions and frustrations than...

The best Quod in Oxford: Dining on the High Street

A landmark of the High Street, Quod boasts an opulent facade, its name reminding...

Never safe again: Consent and the college campus

CW: Sexual assault; mention of suicide. When you walk into college on the first day,...

Girlhood will not save you

I spent a good deal of time last summer trying to work out why...

Country Diary: Port Meadow

'Port Meadow is steeped in myth; it’s the unploughed landscape, the land earned from resisting the Danes, a sacred spot where the Freemen graze their cattle'

Houmous Girl – 5th week Trinity

Rower Lad's date with Houmous Girl gets slightly off track...

Balling: The best route to quick cash

Cherwell Lifestyle looks at the highs and lows of working at Keble's night of Russia-themed decadence

Creaming Spires – 5th week Trinity

Ophelia Balls gets over-familiar with a friend

Houmous Girl – 4th week Trinity

This week sees Houmous Girl relay the tale of a burgeoning Oxford romance

Interview: Chang-rae Lee

Rhiannon Gibbs-Harris speaks to author Chang-rae Lee about the self, bad reviews and golf

Creaming Spires – 4th week Trinity

Ophelia Balls heads to Cowley in search of the Hipster

Houmous Girl – 3rd week Trinity

The characters of Oxford are feeling the pinch

Shakespeare Re-imagined: a Novel Choice

Sara Semic speaks to author Marina Fiorato about ink and virginity in 'Beatrice and Benedick'

Creaming Spires: 3rd week Trinity

Ophelia Balls discusses the pros and cons of physical activities with an Oxford Blue

Review: Worcester Formal

This week our reviewers are satisfied, but largely unimpressed.

Beyond Meat: Futuristic Food

Liz English explores new sources of eco-friendly nutrition

Creaming Spires – 2nd week Trinity

Ophelia Balls discovers first-hand that bored people are boring people

Houmous Girl – 2nd week Trinity

Your friends and acquaintances quibble over the evening's plan

New York: Swapping Revision for the Upper East Side

Naomi Polonsky leaves French and Russian for Frank Lloyd Wright and ruthless real estate

Houmous Girl – 1st week Trinity

Some familiar Oxford characters react to news of a sinkhole in town...

Copenhagen: an unorthodox tour

Emma Cookson is impressed by the lesser known attractions of the Danish capital

New Term, New You

Some guidelines for Trinity 2k14 that will make you a better, smarter, nicer person

Zurich and Vaduz: A foray into last-minute travel

Natalie Stumpf tells us how to cure the travel bug with the help of One Direction

A Mother’s Day survival guide

Sara Semic takes you through the ins and outs of the 'mother' of all Sundays

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