Ethan Penny, Author at The Oxford Blue

Jordan Peterson delivers speech

Jordan Peterson at The Oxford Union: Gaza, transphobia, and ‘wokeism’

by Ethan Penny February 26, 2025February 26, 2025

Lord Hague, in ceremonial Chancellor gown, gestures in his speech

Inside Lord Hague’s Admission Ceremony

by Ethan Penny February 21, 2025February 21, 2025

Current Cornmarket St McDonald's

New McDonald’s Cornmarket St restaurant faces restricted opening hours

by Ethan Penny February 2, 2025February 3, 2025

University project to demolish Little Clarendon St building, jeopardising small businesses

by Ethan Penny January 29, 2025January 29, 2025

The Oxford Student celebrates being named the fourth-best newspaper in the world

by Ethan Penny December 29, 2024January 3, 2025

Chancellor candidate Peter Mandelson to be named the new UK ambassador to the US

by Ethan Penny December 20, 2024December 20, 2024

Oxford Union (debating chamber)

The Election at the Union

by Ethan Penny November 29, 2024November 29, 2024

Gone with Old Boys: electing a new Chancellor

by Ethan Penny October 17, 2024October 17, 2024

The Widening Gyre

by Ethan Penny September 1, 2024September 1, 2024

Shooting Trump

by Ethan Penny July 28, 2024July 28, 2024

COP30: Behind the Scenes

Ethan Penny Jan 20, 2026 18 min read

Image taken by Merna Elboghdady, used with her consent in the article. Shows the Global Youth Climate Training team at COP30.

Elana Roberts explores the importance, impact and limitations of COP30, which took place in Brazil. She first traces the historic significance of COPs before interviewing…

In defence of the assisted dying bill

Ethan Penny Jan 20, 2026 4 min read

In defence of the assisted dying bill

The House of Lords by William Morrison Wyllie (1820–1895), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons My grandmother died in 2020. At the end of her life,…

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

Ethan Penny 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

Ethan Penny Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

Snow

‘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…