Thursday 12th February 2026

Culture

Will 2026 finally kill the clean girl?

The clean girl has become ubiquitous throughout celebrity culture, magazines, and social media in recent years. Her brand prescribes a lifestyle, a kind of idealised minimalism.

Nostalgic and sincere: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in review

Crazy Child Productions staged a genuine and thoughtful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic.

Irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny: ‘My Dead Mum’s AI Boyfriend’

Aled is a chatbot, but also, more concerningly, Carrie’s mum’s AI boyfriend.

Musical theatre and classic literature: A marriage of two minds?

Musical theatre owes a great debt to the literature of preceding centuries. Often, all we need is one idea to ignite a spark that leads to something greater.

Cherworld – Trenton resurfaces

As the boat race disrupter is invited to Oxford to speak about the right to protest, Anthony and Anna look back at his treatment by the universities and the media since he shot to fame in 2012

Review: Oxford Fashion Week 2014 – High Street Show

Cherwell went down to the opening show of the sixth annual Oxford Fashion Week, to find out the latest high street trends.

The Oscars 2014 – Cherwell’s Best Dressed

On Sunday 2nd March, the stars flocked to LA for the 86th Academy Awards - here are our favourite looks...

Town v Gown boxing at the Oxford Union

OUABC organise the annual fights with clubs invited from around the country. The result is 6-3 to the gown!

Subject Fashion

Can you tell what someone studies just by what they wear? Cherwell finds out.

Cherworld – Exe-terrible

As Exeter students go on hall strike to protest crippling catering charges, Anthony and Anna wonder whether something should be done to close the gap between rich and poor colleges

Shark Tales – Series 3 Episode 2

Alexander Fox returns for another curious incident of the drunks in the night-time

Cherwell Investigates Sexism in Oxford

In light of Robin Lane Fox's recent comment that a woman's evening dress should be 'an apparently stormable fortress', Cherwell asked students attending the Union Ball about sexism and the implications of this statement.

Ceci n’est pas une femme.

Cherwell Fashion photoshoot: Issue 4

L’Inspiration de Paris

Cherwell Fashion photoshoot: Issue 2

Colour Clash

Photographer - Kate Hodkinson Stylist - Rebecca Borthwick Models - Jasmine Ko & Esme Bayar

Interview: General Michael Hayden

Cherwell speaks to Michael Hayden about Edward Snowden and whistleblowing.

Cherworld — Here Comes The Sun

As Merton College unsubscribe from the Sun newspaper in protest at Page 3, Anthony and Anna discuss whether colleges gain or lose out by depriving themselves of Britain's best loved red-top.

Oxford Imps – The 10th Anniversary

The Oxford Imps preview their Thursday spectacular in the giant New Theatre, Oxford

Cherworld – A Tory Bonfire

The NUS has come under fire after one member reportedly suggested building a bonfire and putting the Tories on top. Anthony is joined by guest presenter Rowan Borchers to discuss the 'vitriolic' atmosphere of the NUS, and whether conservatives are victimised by other students

What are your fashion faux pas?

We ask for people's biggest fashion blunders on Cornmarket, with the usual variety of town and gown experiences

LGBTQ Month 2014

LGBTQ Month is being marked by rainbow flags being flown from Oxford Colleges

CoppaFeel ‘photoboob’ by the Radcliffe Camera

Student volunteers for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! don their boob suits to raise awareness for women's health around Oxford

Shark Tales – Series 3 Episode 1

The debut episode for Alexander Fox, fishing for sharks on the streets of Park End

Beauty Corner: No Make-Up

Keep calm and carry on - a world without make-up!

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