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The art of reaching out to old friends

Coming to university, I realised that the stable, effortless reliability of my friends from home was, all of a sudden, precarious and difficult to maintain.
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The only thing missing from this bean was chocolate

If there were a smell I could capture, bottle up, and treasure forever, it would be the toasty and heartening smell of cacao roasting in the morning.
Lifestyle Minnie Mertz -

Hidden in plain sight: the bakery behind Oxford’s café counters

You may not know the name, but you have almost certainly eaten the pastry. Does the bakery behind Oxford’s favourite cafés hold its own at the counter?
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Why are we so afraid of being bored?

We’ve come to think of boredom as an inevitable but unpleasant gap between activities, or as space to fill, but we’ve stopped seeing that space as worthwhile in itself.
Lifestyle Jessie Jukes -
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Fifth week in Oxford: blue or false?

Claire Castles reflects on the myths and realities of the mid term misery that we all love to hate

Shivering our timbers

Agnes Arnold-Forster and Beth McKernan swoon in the presence of everyone's favourite pirate

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Helen Pye discusses the ethics and intricacies of eternal life with hirsute scientist Aubrey de Grey

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Cherwell's editors spend yet more time together, eat too much and sample the delights Giraffe have to offer

Charity begins on the phone

Chloe Cornish gets chatty to charities and wonders where her donations are going.

Who needs a degree?

Libby Derbyshire tells us how it’s really best to utilise our time at university, by simultaneously climbing the social and career ladders

Cut-throat Cutrone talks strict business

Fashion hotshot and reality TV star Kelly Cutrone talks to Helen Pye about her unlikely rise to success and how ‘normal gets you nowhere’

Lifestyle Interview: the Hairy Bikers

The celebrity chef duo talk to Claire Castles about friendship, fresh food and feeding the elderly

It’s not all about the money

Vidhi Doshi tries to curb her excesses and survive on one pound a day for a week. But at what cost?

First year, second time around

Rebecca Loxton sees Freshers' Week through older and wiser eyes; postgrads have fun too you know

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Adam Scott Taylor talks to Sayuki, the first Western geisha, about life on the inside of the flower and willow world

A stranger close to home

Claire Castles explores her native Ireland, camping her way down the east coast

Festivals: Do and Don’t

Matt Jones gives festival-goers his top tips from a summer of outings

Hello Stephen: Introducing leggy blonde, Steve Merchant, 36.

Award winning co-creator of The Office and Extras, Stephen Merchant is embarking on his first everstand-up comedy tour. I got in touch to discuss returning to the stage, service station cuisine, and playdates with Johnny Depp.

A Fresher’s Guide to Packing

Grace Goddard provides some handy tips on the Oxford eight-week packing saga for the incoming fresher

Fresher = Survivor

For the fresher who can't cook, one restaurant at a time

Social enterprise group to renovate empty Turl Street venue

The Oxford Hub has begun a project to convert 16-17 Turl Street, a building which has been left unused for two years, into a bar and restaurant; the profits of which will feed back into social enterprise projects in the local community

The Secret Diary of a Call Centre Worker

Cherwell Lifestyle puts its reputation on the phone line, finding a murky world of voyeurism, exploitation and sex

Word policing

Jack Andrews asks Oxford how riled up linguistic effrontery really gets us
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