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,...

Hometown: Wem, Shropshire

Wem- it's in Shropshire. Which is close to Wales.

Who likes short shorts?

Jane-Marie Saldanha investigates the art of the short film with Logorama's Herve de Crecy

BA (Oxon.) in Daddy Issues

What happens when university becomes a home away from a broken home? Cherwell finds out

Top five: Oxford faux-pas

Apart from coming from Merton of course.

Everyman

Oliver Moody has the fear of God put up him by a medieval verse morality play in a twilit chapel

Want sauce with that, love?

Katrina Kwan spends a night with Ahmed, indefatigable purveyor of Oxford’s finest and fastest food

Swot:Shop: Summer Shoes

Step into summer style in our pick of the best shoes...

Dine Hard: Magdalen Arms

Don't welcome it with open arms...

Right off the production line

Barney Norris discovers that the Cabinet is far from the only preserve of Old Oxonians

Local art for local people?

Modern Art Oxford's latest exhibition gives Beau Woodbury a different perspective on Rose Hill

Blind date: Week 5

Back to the punts- was Love flowing on the Isis?

Brideshead Regurgitated

Violet Hudson is less than impressed by Naomi Alerman's Oxford-themed latest offering

An Olympic Transformation

David Egan considers the effect of the Vancouver Olympics on Canada's national identity

Fit Finding

Cherwell seeks to witness Oxford's fitness first hand.

Interview: Duncan Quinn

The bespoke suitmaker talks to Chris Graham about spanking his Amex, motorcycle helmets and growing-up in the South of France

Interview: Mark Strong

Sophie Adelman gets to know Robin Hood star Mark Strong, the kindest villain around

Love in the libraries

Rory Fazan explores the possibilites of sex and love between the bookstacks

Interview: Roger Moore

Hector Keate talks UNICEF and that spy franchise with Britain's most expressive eyebrows

Hometown: Brighton, East Sussex

It's not all vegan food and hemp. But quite a bit of it is.

The real Big Issue

Nic Turner gets more perspective than he bargained for when talking to Big Issue sellers around Oxford

Follow us