Friday 5th June 2026

Culture

Colour and codification: Eleanor Medhurst on queer fashion

"There’s a lot of symbolism within queer fashion: ways to speak with our appearance when it hasn’t always been safe or possible to share our identities out loud."

Glamour and gossip: Oxford Fashion Society’s ‘Women in Fashion’

Is there hope for young journalists in the midst of an unemployment crisis, funding cuts to arts-based degrees, and the unknowns of AI? Yes, Julia and Daisy think, but it is by far the hardest time to be a new fashion journalist.

Galliano for the masses (on the Zara sale rack)

The fashion world is mourning the loss of John Galliano. Not a literal death, but something closer to a fall from grace.

Greening the Met Gala through Oxford fashion

With Anna Wintour trotting around New York and cosying up with Lauren Sanchez Bezos,...

Let’s all steal a bike

Chris Graham finds out the only thing in Oxford easier than reading geography is stealing a bicycle.

Top five: Ways to celebrate finals

We're being a little more creative than Kukui/Park End/Bridge/Wahoo.

Cherwell: Join Us

Have you got what it takes? 99.99% need not apply.

Oxford Summer VIIIs

It would take more than rain to call off Summer VIIIs. Proof:

Finally! When exams finish…

Did it all kick off at the English trashings? We find out to a generic rock soundtrack.

A summer of literary love

From boho cool to country house calm, Violet Hudson rounds up this summer’s best literary festivals

LOL? I nearly ROFLed

Exploring the oft neglected world of Oxford comedy

Has Clive Got News For You

Benjamin Kirby sees self-deprecation behind the dry wit of one of Britain’s greatest comics.

Hometown: Cambridge

It was inevitable that the 'other' university would get a look in soon.

The few and the Ger-many

Matthew Alagiah investigates the relatively recent phenomenon of ‘Hausprojekte’, the communal living spaces which have become a real feature of the cityscape.

An afternoon in the altogether

A trip to Cambridge, a trip to a life drawing class, a small amount of casual nudity

Top Five: First date blunders

As if Cherwell didn't do enough for the socially impaired...

Dine Hard: Arbat

A rather overpriced and calorific experience.

Blind Date: Week 6

You know how it works... and it seems like this time, it actually worked.

The Alternotive Perspective

Singing, speaking, but mainly thrusting from the mixed acapella group 'The Alternotives'

How to do sub-fusc in style

Cherwell asks Hadley: Can you ever sex up sub-fusc?

Creaming Spires

Arguing the women's right to do the dirty with whoever she wants (but also probably calling her a slag)

That’s just fantastic

Chris Graham talks quality not quantity with the editors of Fantastic Man and The Gentlewoman

The good, the Bad Lieutenant, and the ugly

Ben Kirby gives Cherwell the lowdown on his rudimentary rules for riveting remakes

Aesthetic incest?

A look into the value of celebrity endorsements

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