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Love Letters: Rain

by Lucy Pollock June 8, 2025June 8, 2025

Environment

A Twist in the Weather

by Freya Aylmore January 4, 2025January 4, 2025

Environment, Health and Wellbeing, Lifestyle

Weather and Mental Health: Finding Beauty in Oxford’s Winter

by Abigail Cherry November 30, 2024November 30, 2024

Sports

Catching Up with the Cricket: What is the fuss about the weather?

by Felix Cripps May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

Columns

Love Letters: February Blues (or, rather, Greys)

by Lucy Pollock February 27, 2024February 28, 2024

Environment

Storm Babet hits the UK.

by Flora Prideaux October 19, 2023October 19, 2023

Top city break destinations for Brits in the summer

Waqar Jan 1, 2026 3 min read

Traditionally, holidays for UK travellers have been two weeks abroad. However, holidaymakers are getting savvy about when to use their annual leave, using it to…

How to Enjoy the Winter on a Budget

Waqar Jan 1, 2026 3 min read

Winter can be a particularly expensive time. From higher heating bills to the cost of keeping everyone entertained when daylight fades early, it can be…

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Luke Erly Dec 15, 2025 6 min read

Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Nina Sablan Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…