Wednesday 29th October 2025

Lifestyle

TLDR: Literacy in the digital age

No one reads these days. If it’s longer than an Instagram caption, it’s not worth my time. I doubt most people will even make it to the end of...

The erotic life of the mind

At Oxford, desire often wears a gown. It speaks in footnotes, engages in debates...

Oxford, gone decaf

When I was having lunch with a friend, I ordered my usual, a double...

How to survive Oxford

Welcome to Oxford, the place where ambition goes to drink, cry, and write 3,000 words on “liminality” at 3 a.m.

Creaming Spires: Michaelmas 0th Week

Ava Gina goes al fresco.

MT13: a fresher reflects

As the new year begins, fresher Sara Semic reflects on her first term in Oxford

Oxford’s 2013: the year in videos

This year has seen protests, firings, victories and defeats - Cherwell looks back over the biggest events of 2013

Review: Great British Bake Off Christmas Special

Eliza Plowden finds this baking master-class a festive treat

Oxford does Christmas: five of the best

With Christmas upon us, Cherwell brings you the University’s top festive offerings

Tinder: The busy student’s dating solution?

Shallow or effective? After a term's use of the new dating app, Eleanor Bley Griffiths gives us her verdict.

Varsity Review

An Oxbridge 'Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents'? One Varsity-goer reports from snow-capped Tignes

The other side of interviews

Liz English discusses meeting potential students, running semi-naked through college, and being mistaken for a tutor

Absence makes the heart (or rather, stomach) grow fonder

Tom Wood lists his Oxford Top 5 of places to eat, drink and be merry this Christmas

It’s that time of year again!

The Lifestyle Team share some funny anecdotes about their experiences of Oxford interviews

The sex appeal of quizzing by Brasenose’s Ben Ralph

What happens when you get voted fifth sexiest University Challenge contestant of all time

Freddy the Fresher: Part Five

Freddy's idyllic sexual paradise is about to be shattered...

Freddy the Fresher: Part Four

Freddy finally plucks up the courage to ask out Bernadette: but will it all go to plan?

Bassam’s road to Brighton Peer

Tim Ellis talks to Lord Bassam about Lords reform, Twitter and squatting

Creaming Spires

This week's instalment of Creaming Spires sees the loss of virginity

Freddy the Fresher: Part Three

Freddy has an awkward run in at the Alternative Tuck Shop...

The Oxford Commute

The Dos and Don'ts of commuting into Oxford

Freddy the Fresher: Part Two

Our hapless hero discovers that life in the SSL can be rather exciting...

Freddy the Fresher: Part One

Cherwell introduces its weekly column, following the fortunes of one hapless fresher...

Cocktails With Cai: Espresso Martini

Espresso Martini: Warning, not to be used for essay crises

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