Thursday 2nd July 2026

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A love letter to my year abroad 

A year is a long time: enough to call a place home, enough to strip away the bright facade of newness. I’ve spent my year abroad at this university,...

Absence (and digicam photodumps) make the heart grow fonder: Nostalgia for Oxford

Last Michaelmas, as my friends and I were going through our photos from a...

Do ‘day in the life’ videos make us hate our own?

An alarm flashes on a phone screen: it’s 5am. A hand reaches out to...

A new kid on the matcha block: NEPA Coffee and Food review

In January 2025, Cherwell provided some guidance on this issue by offering the student body a definitive ranking of Oxford matcha. Since then, however, there have been some new developments.

Be my bloody Valentine

Oxford's own Bridget Jones bags herself a V-Day date on Take Me Out

Middle-Aged-Man-Band?

Harriet Smith Hughes chats with Police Dog Hogan about juggling professional careers and urban bluegrass

Making a Break for it

Rachel Massey and Hannah Grosskopf talk about their experiences of RAG's Jailbreak

Vive la Grève! A Year Abroad Perspective

Gruffudd Owen experiences his first strike in France, and he's definitely not complaining

"Middle Class Food Column": Going Against the Grain

Katie Ebner-Landy and Lewis Evans look into how to make carb-consuming just that bit more fun

Fifty Shades of Cosmo

Ophelia Balls takes Cosmo's sex advice at face value, from the sublime to the ridiculous

A birthday stripped bare

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on her best birthday surprise yet...

"Middle Class Food Column": Houmous Wars

Katie Ebner-Landy attempts to explain some of the oldest and deepest-rooted hatreds in the world through the medium of houmous

Join the (singles) club!

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on the life of the singleton

A Big Night Out

Tom Goulding talks to Clive Martin, one of Vice's hottest upcoming names

The man with the golden camera

Tim Ellis talks to Alex Thomson, Cherwell alumnus and Channel 4's chief news correspondent

A long-standing, silent struggle

An Oxford undergraduate talks to Cherwell about battling with depression at University.

Confessions of a dryathlete

John Owen talks about life without drinking in a bid to raise money for Cancer Research.

Make Love Not Porn

Eleanor Bley Griffiths talks hardcore porn, younger men and self-promotion with Cindy Gallop

The Bridget Jones of Oxford: The Elusive Zen

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on the sweat, blood and tears that is Bikram Yoga

Interview: Sophie Hulme

Imogen Beecroft talks to Sophie Hulme, a young designer causing quite a stir

Three’s not a crowd

Max McGenity meets Ian Mucklejohn, the first single man in the UK to have surrogate children.

Do me if you’ve ‘done’ India

Oxford's own Bridget Jones reflects on gap yah guys

The Joys of Teaching: A Year Abroad Perspective

Gruffudd Owen on life without Oxford - and the weird and wonderful ways of her students

The nudist life laid bare

Alexia Millett ponders why nudism is still so unpopular in Britain, and whether she’ll ever be converted

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